M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Our society is marked by inequities of race, gender, ability, and more—and the content we create can either challenge these inequities or reinforce them. Rachel is a Social Media Account Executive in M+R’s Oakland office. The good news? Reach out at rjones@mrss.com. .

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APRIL 19, 2022

In addition, a budget will give you insight to any potential cash flow challenges the grantee may be facing. For example, when conducting a site visit in Oakland, CA, a private foundation let us know that one area of concern they had with this particular grantee was late reporting. whether the sources of potential revenue are reliable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 6, 2008

For example, when I type in my zip code in Oakland, CA, it tells me, "Your electricity provider, Pacific Gas Electric Co., Here's how to join the iLoveMountains.org Blogger's Challenge : 1. Go to ilovemountains.org/bloggers-challenge and enter your name, blog URL and email address.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The challenge is to figure out the best way to share that playbook. We want to share the methods and tools that make it work. Not as a prescriptive recipe, but as a pattern. We see OF/BY/FOR ALL as an adaptable playbook for community change. Last year, we tested out different formats. We explored opening a training center. Consulting.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

utilize technology to develop solutions to social challenges. is an organization based out of Oakland, California. Youth Radio's mission is to connect Oakland-based young people with pro developers and entrepreneurs to. Forage Oakland project. skills are taught through a practical hands-on course that guides.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

or Code for Oakland ). Microsoft's International Women's Hackathon challenged female developers to combat issues like human trafficking through new mobile apps and web programs. The ReStart Challenges. The challenges invite social activists and techies to create web-based tools to tackle local issues.

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APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Millennium Challenge Corporation. Oversees Millennium Challenge Corporation’s signature grant investment vehicle to reduce poverty through economic growth. Academic Institutions.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2013

Census Bureau and the Peace Corps presenting data sets and particular challenges associated with them. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa's natural resources, and a few others. place overall in the challenge. Lessons Learned.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Topic: How can challenges/competitions be used to discover, support, and accelerate social change projects and solutions? I’ll be chatting this Thursday for the June #$Change chat and hope you’ll join me! Details: Date: Thursday, June 11. Where: Twitter (search for #4Change). When: 5 - 7 pm US Eastern Time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Jose sits on various economic development boards: the Oakland Workforce Investment Board, the Bay Area Business Advisory Board of Directors for the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, and the OneCalifornia Bank Advisory Board.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

Participate in the 2009 Indie Resolution Challenge sponsored by my local paper, The East Bay Express. Volunteer in Oakland outside of my home office, and away from my computer. Flickr photo credit: Downtown Oakland 2 uploaded by ChrisDag. 2009 resolution New Year volunteer donate Oakland local business

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

That’s been a challenge. It was challenging to select associated metrics — always asking if these are the best metrics to use to meet my goals. The work was winnowing everything down & finding strategic ‘narrative’ that links what data to collect against our results.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. Oakland, CA: Office 365 for Nonprofits. Storymakers is live! Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story. We have $13,000 in prizes available! Looking for inspiration for your digital story? Thursday, September 18, 2014.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Join a challenge! Our partner OneWebDay also has a variety of service events taking place on and around Sept. 22nd, including a number of events in San Francisco. We’re looking to get a 100 people to conduct an “ Internet Health Check ” and host a Web help desk , and at least 50 people to host a social media seminar !

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. We participate in the City of Oakland's Maintain-a-Drain program, and do our part daily to remove litter from the street in our neighborhood. Get help from an agency like the Oakland Business Development Corporation (OBDC).

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 18, 2008

One of the things I've realized while doing the 29-Day Giving Challenge is that I "volunteer" a lot of free advice for organizations and individuals, but I haven't volunteered in my community for a long time. It makes me sad that the Oakland public libraries are so under-funded. How often do you volunteer? Howabout you?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. Not so in Oakland. Mai-ling Garcia, the city of Oakland's online engagement manager, put it succinctly: "We're not here to build applications for you, we're here to build applications with you.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt! Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

I was joined by Lori Fogarty (ED of the Oakland Museum of California), Adam Lerner (ED and Chief Animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver), and Beck Tench (Director for Innovation and Digital Engagement at the Museum of Life and Science).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2011

We hope that at the very least, The Convivial Museum will encourage people who work in museums to remember what they already know and to challenge their assumptions about what is possible and within their reach. This image of opening night at the Oakland Museum of California, April 2010, is by photographer Daniel Kokin.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California. As project director Evelyn Orantes commented, "This is a program that challenges the basic ideas about how art is displayed." At some point you have to make some "or" choices. You can't always do "and."

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Have Fun - Do Good

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

JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. My brother and I started Numi about seven years ago, from here in Oakland, California, and we started in my small apartment up the street, near Piedmont Avenue. Britt: Oakland needs more businesses like Numi.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

City Slickers Farm is taking over a park, with the support of the city of Oakland. They're going to be growing some food in one of the downtown West Oakland parks, which is pretty exciting. Anything short of restructuring our economic framework would be challenging, so we have to choose that for ourselves. Back to the models.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

According to Cardellino, the greatest challenge hospital volunteerism faces today, is the aging of its volunteer workforce. Another challenge hospital volunteerism faces is regulation , and the number of human resource and legal issues that need to be addressed before a person can volunteer. online marketing). Interviews (i.e

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JULY 6, 2011

We hosted community discussions in Oakland, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, and Portland. Be transparent with your challenges. We also had a hunch we could help, but we knew we had to listen to the community to know if the problem was real and what the solutions might be. So we asked. Be where your community is.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

This challenge is exacerbated by several factors including: Inconsistent level of touching allowed. The Oakland Museum, which tried a similar approach with their "touch me" stickers throughout the galleries (as shown above in the photo), has reported an overall increase in touching. all over the place.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland. 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.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

While the staff who led the project cheerfully commented that they didn't know what they were doing when they started, the process they ended up with bears remarkable similarity to other successful co-creative efforts , like the Wing Luke Asian Museum's community exhibition process or the Oakland Museum's Days of the Dead project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Oakland has changed its laws in the last few years where you have to pay per transfer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Accessing sustainable food is easier with for mobile access to databases (Seafood Watch), delivery of hyper local foods (Spud.com), online links for farmers and buyers (Roots of Change), and maps of food grown in your neighborhood (Forage Oakland). Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. With snacks!

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

BB: What excites you the most about the work that the Center is doing, and its future, and then, what are some of the biggest challenges that you are facing? AD: I think what excites me the most are also probably some of our challenges, exciting challenges. That is the part that I feel very, very excited and challenged by.

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