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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

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Two such organizations are Apps for Good and Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab , which are teaching youth to learn, create, and improve their communities through the development of apps. " Powered by CDI , Apps for Good is working with youth in the UK to teach them how to. is an organization based out of Oakland, California.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

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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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. Then, I moved into the world of teaching. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. You can always buy our publications, read them and disseminate them.

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

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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. It might be teaching.

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