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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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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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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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). Reggie Bibbs is on a one-man mission to raise awareness of his disorder, neurofibromatosis.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. BB: A lot of your work at United for a Fair Economy was raising awareness and doing research and studies about the racial wealth divide. If the most affected are raised up, then that will make waves outward.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

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To support this vision, the Drivers Cooperative has been successful in raising more than $1.4 How to raise capital to develop a sophisticated app that is able to compete with Uber? The development of a fully functioning on-demand app is expected to bring more visibility to the cooperative rideshare community in the coming year.

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