Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

or Code for Oakland ). Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. The events challenged participants to brainstorm and code mash-ups of WorldCat, the world's largest bibliographic database, with other web services.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The challenge is to figure out the best way to share that playbook. We'll offer an online program for change, support a global community of practice, and keep expanding the program based on community input. We want to share the methods and tools that make it work. Not as a prescriptive recipe, but as a pattern. Publishing toolkits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

2012 Stacey Edgar, Founder, Global Girlfriend listen 2011 Gabriela Masala, Founder, One Love Alliance listen Robert Wolfe, Co-Founder, Crowdrise listen Aneesha Raghunathan, Founder, Hope Line Fashions listen Rachel Cohen, Founder and Executive Director, Hand2Paw listen Kathy LeMay, Founder, Raising Change. Happy listening!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. Join our global tweet chat on September 4 for the best examples of nonprofit storytelling. Oakland, CA: Office 365 for Nonprofits. Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story. We have $13,000 in prizes available!

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Marisa Handler, Author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

-Cami Walker, Founder, 29 Day Giving Challenge The 29 Day Giving Challenge is a global giving movement where participants give away one thing each day for 29 days. I wrote about my experience with the Giving Challenge last spring in the post, 29 Day Giving Challenge Takeaway: Compassion is Hardest to Give.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Listen Read Martin Fisher, Co-founder and CEO, KickStart Listen Read ?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Listen Read Abby Rosenheck (now Jaramillo), Founder and Executive Director, Urban Sprouts Listen Read Ilyse Hogue, Global Finance Campaign Director, Rainforest Action Network. Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland. (Mei-ying is now the Operations Director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network).

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AUGUST 29, 2010

They all represent either a farmer, educator, activist, or chef, but they still share the connection that they're aware of global issues. They become more aware of global economies, of how our global economy impacts other countries, the opening of how we become more aware of our actions and how they impact others. They traveled.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

We hosted community discussions in Oakland, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, and Portland. I knew that if we could understand the connections and visualize the breadth of global efforts on behalf of social and environmental justice, we would recognize the largest movement the world has ever seen. So we asked.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice.

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JUNE 21, 2006

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. It's not just for West Oakland; it's for young people throughout the Bay Area. My name is Britt Bravo, and in today's show I will be talking with the co-founder and executive director of People's Grocery, Brahm Ahmadi.

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APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.

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MAY 10, 2006

SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We just recently moved to downtown Oakland, and we talk about ourselves as a school to build a movement. And in terms of how I got involved with SOUL, I was actually teaching for a very brief period in the Oakland middle schools. So I’m only 26. It’s been a really incredible ride.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

CH: You know it is funny; it actually didn't start out as a women-centered initiative, but the more research I did about creating global training sites and free media enterprises in these developing countries, training women just makes the most sense. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. BB: What are the challenges of your work?

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JUNE 22, 2006

We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods. So we started offering backpacking yoga trips. We did a program called "We Can Surmount" which is like the AIDS ride, which was taking people who had been cancer survivors or affected by cancer, on to wilderness journeys.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Due to the fact that the focus of these media corporations is on creating profits rather than social justice, the many answers that we demand as conscious global citizens become conditional. Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies. To achieve these goals, the Drivers Cooperative faces substantial challenges. The organizers at the Drivers Cooperative have been talking with possible international community partners as well.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It’s vital that you keep your supporters in-the-know with campaign progress, but when you’re receiving donations by the minute, sending out updates can be challenging. In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day. Real-time fundraising thermometer.

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JUNE 30, 2007

In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Lisa Russ, the Associate Director of the Movement Strategy Center, shares the joys and challenges of being a new mom working for social change. The Movement Strategy Center is a nonprofit organization in Oakland, CA that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement.

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APRIL 25, 2007

He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. Oakland, among other places, sued, got a four-point-something million dollar settlement.

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JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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