Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

The project is designed to be available to citizens 24 hours a day and aims to increase the government's communication efficiency. For example, Code for Oakland hosted an event called ReWrite Oakland, which focused how to make the Oakland city government website more accessible and easier to use.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2013

She currently serves on the design team and faculty of the NoVo Foundation''s Move to End Violence — a 10-year movement building initiative to end gender-based violence. She lives in Oakland with her 8-year-old son, Jonah Ravi, and her partner, Adrienn.

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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. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. or Code for Oakland ). For example, Victoria Walker, an 11-year-old from California, designed Rode Dog , a clever app designed to stop texting and driving.

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JUNE 24, 2011

Still totally inspired by Save Oakland Library. One Million Bones is a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities. A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Selected in 2009 as one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence and nominated in 2015 as one of Metro Vancouver’s YWCA Women of Distinction in the category of arts, culture, and design . Ami McReynolds.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2017

You don't need to be a professional graphic designer to create astonishing covers, wallpapers, or landscapes for every occasion. Isn't it amazing that you can now create things like this on your iPhone or Android, when not too long ago this was only for graphic designers or people that knew how to use Adobe Creative Cloud?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

As part of my work at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group where grantees are designing and implementing measurement action learning projects based on the 7 steps of measurement framework over six month period.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Youth Radio's Mobile App Lab connects Oakland, CA-based youth with professional app developers and entrepreneurs to propose, develop, and market apps that serve community needs. NetSquared brings nonprofits together with programmers, designers and other business professionals.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

About the Presenters: Jonah Sachs -- CEO, Free Range Studios Jonah is an internationally recognized storyteller, author, designer and entrepreneur. He lives in Oakland with his wife Chelsea, their daughter Mira, and son Orion. Sign up for this Free Expert Webinar on THURSDAY OCTOBER 18TH at 2PM ET.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 13, 2015

He currently lives in Oakland, California with his girlfriend and three cats. _. You don’t have to be a professional designer to appreciate branding. Chad Reid is Director of Communications for JotForm , a popular online form building tool and has previously worked for several nonprofits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2005

I saw an article about textile designer, Hiroko Kurihara's Blanket Shares Project in the December issue of Sunset magazine. For each item she sells, she donates a scarf or blanket made of recycled polar fleece to an organization that serves people who are homeless or in transition.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Carpocalypse. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

They can need help with everything from fostering animals before they are adopted, to going into the shelter to play with them and pet them, to web design work. We wouldn't have found our awesome cat if it wasn't for Maine Coon Adoptions here in Oakland. See if a local shelter or animal rescue near you needs volunteers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. 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! It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

For our field and relief team partners: if you had a team of developers to design and test any software you wished for, what would that be? Attend the DevSummit on February 21-23 in Oakland. * What needs to be done to make information management a reality? * Are mapping and geographic information systems possible and affordable? *

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JULY 6, 2011

We hosted community discussions in Oakland, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, and Portland. The choice and design of the tools used to provide communities with a voice can have a big impact on reinforcing positive interaction. Good User-Focused Design & Functionality. So we asked. Excellent Practices.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us. 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.

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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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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

In 2014, the Alameda County Community Food Bank of Oakland, California raised over $85,000 across 300 donors, with the help of a strong campaign that incorporated a multi-channel approach (with email and social media, of course), a consistent brand image and visuals, and awesome corporate gift-matching.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

With the support of museum staff, children developed the exhibition theme, selected the objects, designed the space, developed interpretative materials (including interactives), managed the budget, raised sponsorship, created press and marketing materials, put on the opening party, led interpretative tours, and trained museum guides.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2011

Museums should make people feel welcomed and comfortable, be gracious and generous, design for a diversity of interests and needs, create situations that increase the likelihood of having a good conversation, and allow the time and space to let people reflect and imagine. As one of Wendy's t'ai chi teachers says, "You know it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Last week I announced a new weekly feature that I'm trying out on Have Fun * Do Good, Ask Britt , where you send in questions related to career design for artists and activists, and I'll do my best to answer them. For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines.

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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. That's basically showing those three different designs and their applicability to the Bay Area and what kind of social and economic benefits that they have for the region.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

I'm giving a workshop on design techniques for encouraging user participation (sorry, it's full). I'm giving a free talk at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the evening of the 22nd, and then a free workshop on the 23rd at the National Postal Museum on designing better mechanisms for visitor feedback and response.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Both had good design, great programmatic events, and enthusiastic response. The exhibition is small and fairly traditional in design. People lining the street on the Tuesday afternoon when the boards arrived from the Port of Oakland, cheering as the crates came off the truck. Crushed attendance records.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Battle Non Profit submitted by Beth Kanter Using just one special ingredient (a small in-need non profit), three web teams will meet in the heat of Austin to craft an exceptional meal, featuring a tasty new homepage design, a well-seasoned fundraising email and a perfectly balanced social networking plan. Who will prevail? s up to YOU, sxsw!

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

A lot of things out there that are designed to support women, in actuality are quite detrimental, and are disproportionately affecting women of color. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. BB: You are relatively new ED. You started in December?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. Two products that I made, my kits, would not have happened without my designer. She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. I don't have all of the skills needed to run a business.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

Women here in Oakland. I’ve coached a massage therapist from Japan and a jewelry designer from Peru. You can connect with Jenn on Twitter @artizencoaching , the RBBP Facebook Fan Page , The Right-Brainers in Business Video Summit , her personal blog , and on Instagram: @jennlee.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

When I look at the gorgeous examples of what is possible in FlowingData's Best Data Visualization Projects , I wonder how a nonprofit without a big graphic design budget can compete. LISC's Oakland field page is an example of how Silk enables you to tell a more complete story by including images, text, videos, and more.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

The design constraint is simple to understand, specific enough to be interesting, and doesn't prescribe the output. Some more savvy contributors even thought about how their work would read in a very busy gallery stuffed with art--another kind of design constraint that can spur creativity. What makes Foot in the Door a success?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

When I look at the gorgeous examples of what is possible in FlowingData's Best Data Visualization Projects , I wonder how a nonprofit without a big graphic design budget can compete. LISC's Oakland field page is an example of how Silk enables you to tell a more complete story by including images, text, videos, and more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

and "Let's call that person, figure out if they'll volunteer to do that, put it down on paper, get the designers to bang it out, see if it works, and throw it out to the community." All our media channels work together in a design to lift women's voices from the ground to drive change. I am very much a social entrepreneur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

The summer before my last year in college, I participated in a summer program in Philadelphia that was designed to teach young people organizing skills around poverty and homelessness issues. SOUL is located here in the Bay area, in Oakland. It was the first experience that I had with social movement organizing. That's one.

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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. . We secrete a couple of different compounds: Adrenaline, and Cortisol, both designed to make physiological changes in our body so that we have resources available to us to keep us alive. So the conclusion, brothers and sisters is this.

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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. . We secrete a couple of different compounds: Adrenaline, and Cortisol, both designed to make physiological changes in our body so that we have resources available to us to keep us alive. So the conclusion, brothers and sisters is this.

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