Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2009

My sorority contributes to the Robbie Page Memorial Fund every year and we also create a fun craft for children with terminal illnesses. The Iron Souls is a Motorcycle Club based out of Oakland California that gives back to the betterment of the community. I am a Iron Soul. We really have fun doing it too.

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

When you're on your death bed looking back on your life, what will you remember most, the stuff you received as gifts, or the time you spent with the people you care about? Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. On Wednesday I posted 10 Lists of Holiday Gifts That Give Back. It said, "A trip to the zoo!"

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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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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. She had four children.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

They're aware of human issues, both here and abroad, and that somehow drove them all into the position that food was a place where they would be advocating for change through their passion, their life work, and through wanting to celebrate not only communities, but also by becoming activists for changing the way we eat. Back to the models.

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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. We do a garden nutrition program at our two school sites and at the YMCA site, which is basically for children, at these sites, teaching them about gardening and about nutrition.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland. . All of those who are led by the Spirit of God are God's children. Helped to motivate you to make some change in your life. Your fear has helped you survive this life. So the conclusion, brothers and sisters is this. Give it gratitude.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland. . All of those who are led by the Spirit of God are God's children. Helped to motivate you to make some change in your life. Your fear has helped you survive this life. So the conclusion, brothers and sisters is this. Give it gratitude.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

Nola is as old as the Center she works for, thirty, and over the past two years, she has become an expert on sexually exploited minors in Oakland and has watched as the population grows. When I asked her why teenage prostitution is so prevalent in Oakland, she said, "Because they can do it here. It can't happen fast enough."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California. This session brought together Bruce Wyman (Second Story), Shelley Bernstein (Brooklyn Museum), Beck Tench (Museum of Life and Science), and myself to talk about our unique approaches to technology development in museums.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I ended up discovering a program, at New College of California, a couple of years later, when I was producing arts benefits for social change, especially for women and children living with HIV, this was about 1989 and 1990. In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

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. So, just having spent so much of my life managing that fear through work, it was really intense to all of a sudden sit with that fear in a new way.

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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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