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3 Ways to Support the Asian American Community

Saleforce Nonprofit

Unwilling to sit by and watch, I took action in my local community by patrolling San Francisco Chinatown with Asians in America, Inc. This is just step one in creating a healthy, equal environment. . Patrol volunteer offering PPE to local Chinatown residents. to deter violence and crime. . Photo Credit: Aaron Molo.

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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. If we can begin to build that at a local base, we can begin to create jobs that are associated with that new structure that we create. These are a lot more of the sort of peripheral aspects of this problem.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. They have a magazine called Race, Poverty and Environment Magazin e.

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

Non Profit Quarterly

In 2020, multiple platform companies, including Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and Postmates, spent over $205 million to pass Proposition 22 in California , a law that classifies platform workers as independent contractors, not employees. although this cooperative fizzled due to the lack of a contract with hospitals for workers.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. We have four initiatives.

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