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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

With OF/BY/FOR ALL, we're playing a role in this ecosystem as an accelerant for organizational change. We need an ecosystem of activists, academics, funders, professionals, policymakers, and associations striving together towards common goals. Heck, I've spent lots of time participating in those ways myself.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. This student-built app lets players take on the role of a ghost detective who encounters local residents who haunt the community. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. AD: W hite allies have held a huge role for the Women of Color Resource Center historically.

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

Non Profit Quarterly

As some of the most powerful civic institutions that exist in this country, labor unions have long played a critical role in improving the wages and living conditions of workers. How to build significant partnerships in order to boost prominence and achieve a growing customer base? Can Labor Unions Support Platform Cooperatives? .

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

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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