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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. I'm going to be great here in Oakland. I'm going to be green.

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

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Food for me is something that impacts all of our lives, and it was a place where I could focus the most of my energy and really impact community, environment, health, soil, air, social equity issues, community building, and how we do, or do not interact with each other. They're also providing a lot of jobs locally.

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3 Ways to Support the Asian American Community

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I was born and raised in suburban Chicago to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. 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. . Photo Credit: Aaron Molo. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 from replacing ads with art to alerts when you visit the websites of companies that threaten the environment. With snacks!

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

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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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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

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Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. Climate change is on people's minds.

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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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