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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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While the challenges were focused mainly on local or statewide issues, they came up with solutions that could be adopted for national issues as well. The projects varied from educational tools for children to energy efficiency. ReWrite Oakland. Image 3: ReWrite Oakland, Caravan Studios. Honolulu Day of Civic Hacking.

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Mother's Day for Peace

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Campaign supporters are asked to bring pies to their local Congressional offices and let their Congresspeople know that "Peace wants a Piece of the Pie" (the federal budget). PeacePlayers International is a nonprofit organization that uses basketball to unite and educate children and their communities in conflict and post-conflict areas.

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

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I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. Engagement with local artists. What if you WANT them to touch certain things? We don't have guards.

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Give the Gift of Time Together for the Holidays

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Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. It's important to give back to your local and global community, but it is also important to "give back" to your friends and family. When she opened the tiny little box, glued inside the lid was a piece of paper that unfolded, like a fortune cookie fortune. It said, "A trip to the zoo!"

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

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All that social inequity is really driving me crazy and was brought to the surface by listening to the story of Mily Treviño-Sauceda, from the book, about how women and children are still abused in the fields that are growing our food. They're also providing a lot of jobs locally. It stops at a certain point. I work full-time.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them. Fully eight staff members co-founded the organization, but the most well known 350.org

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them. An example is the video of 15,000 school children in Adidas Aba rallying for "strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis.“

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