Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? This is a great example of how events like the apps breakfast help social change app developers get feedback on the spot from the nonprofit community. Increasing Community Engagement.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At Candid, we partner with libraries and nonprofit resource centers across the country to provide nonprofit organizations and local communities with free access to Candid’s educational resources, trainings, and products. Candid community partners are strengthening the local nonprofit sector and helping their communities.

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MAY 10, 2021

There’s always room for improvement, and we’d encourage you to do your own research, engage with local disability advocates, and create an open discussion with your online communities to find out what’s working and what could be done better. . ———. Rachel is a Social Media Account Executive in M+R’s Oakland office.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

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. It was actually a kickoff event for a series of events and hackathons at [freespace] , a "pop-up community center." ReWrite Oakland. Honolulu Day of Civic Hacking.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Guy takes celebrities around the world to connect with young leaders who are creating change in their communities. For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6% of Oakland residents are living in poverty. Start a Giving Circle to fund local organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. Ingrid: Bay Localize is a non-profit project that started back in December of 2005. And also by raising awareness about the concept of re-localizing to bring other people into the movement as well.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Join your local NetSquared group. No local group? We’ve rounded up almost thirty other community nonprofit technology events being held this September, so you’re sure to find something new. North Richland Hills, TX: Managing Your Biggest Asset: Relationships and Community Engagement. Storymakers Events.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

However, this year—as hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and anti-Asian COVID-19 rhetoric spike—I find myself pleading that these words stay true for my family and community. . In addition to individual action, there is great power in turning to my Salesforce.org community for support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. In 2016, I completed my work as facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation.

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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. In February, they'll mail me an Indie Resolution Journal and information about how to find local businesses. February - celebrate local musicians; March - local, socially responsible investing).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Apps Made by Youth.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. I'm going to be great here in Oakland.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

or Code for Oakland ). One of the projects, GoodGym , is a group fitness app where participants get fit by doing physical tasks that benefit their communities. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

They are either from other countries, or they are embedded in communities of color or of other places, or they've traveled and worked extensively with communities. Novella Carpenter got into the point that you don't necessarily want to go back to the land without your community. What brought you here? I went to France.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

Flickr: Julia Folsom As the clear skies of autumn give way to winter's moody precipitates here in Portland, Oregon, we can feel cozier by staying connected to our communities. From November 14-16, the event will take over Preservation Park in Oakland, California. Claim or update your nonprofit and invite reviews to participate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

"You cannot run a community if you're not informed. Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us Britt Bravo: Why is this necessary?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2008

Just a quick shout out for Beth Terry, another Oakland-based blogger, who was nice enough to interview me last month for her blog, Fake Plastic Fish. 3) Put up fliers around campus, in grocery stores, and on community bulletin boards: Mini flyer (PDF) 8-1/2 x 11 flyer (PDF) 4) Mention the campaign in chat rooms and other online forums.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

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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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 18, 2008

Before I started working for myself, I used to volunteer in a community garden for People's Grocery. 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. How often do you volunteer?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Be a community gathering space. If the space allows, be a low-cost gathering space for your community to have meetings, readings, exhibit art, post events, etc. For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines. Organize other local businesses.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

I'm happy to announce that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Boulder Food Rescue , an organization working to eliminate food waste in its community and across the country. To collect this information, Boulder Food Rescue sends out teams of people to survey local businesses.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

If the person you write about has a website, or someone has done a story about them in the local paper, it would be great if you included that link as well. In 2006, USA Today named him one of the Top 20 College Academic All-Stars, and the Governor of Florida awarded Darius with a Points of Light Award for his community service.

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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. My approach to business is based on a holistic vision of what it means to be part of a community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Genocide Intervention Network Mission: "The Genocide Intervention Network empowers individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide." People's Grocery Mission: "Our mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community." Mission: "Spot.Us

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Since reading the The Networked Nonprofit a couple of years ago, I’ve been on the lookout for nonprofits that typify the new breed of nonprofit organization that is agile, open, community driven, hyper-connected and extremely effective. That’s how I’d describe 350.org. His latest book EAARTH. org is already doing that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2008

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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen. Women, Girls, Education and Global Health.

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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 staff members talked about their goals for the redesigned museum to reach more diverse and localized audiences, they repeatedly said, "we want it to be like Days of the Dead." You can't always do "and."

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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. Heart disease is the number one killer in the community, and diabetes is number two, and if you combine all of the diet-related chronic diseases that are in the community, it makes up over half of the mortality rate.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Since reading the The Networked Nonprofit a couple of years ago, I’ve been on the lookout for nonprofits that typify the new breed of nonprofit organization that is agile, open, community driven, hyper-connected and extremely effective. Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). His latest book EAARTH.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

What happens when community members, technologists, city officials, and librarians join forces at City Hall to talk about how to improve their community? I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. How to Create Solutions with Community Members, Not for Them.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. Princes of Surf is about the young Hawaiian princes who brought surfing to the Americas 130 years ago--relevant because they did it in Santa Cruz, with boards shaped from local wood, on waves I bike by every week. Killer content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

Communities need to band together to support their local hospitals to fill in where the traditional resources are not enough by providing service, providing funding, advocating and governing (on Boards of Trustees). She said that there will never be enough resources from current funding sources (i.e.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

April 29 - I'm heading to the Oakland Museum for the preview of its reopening. I'm psyched to see what their innovative team has done to make this community-focused institution better than ever. The workshop requires an RSVP, the talk does not. Both are open to the public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Are you eating well?

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