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JULY 13, 2008

You can also listen to it on this little player: Those of you who are long time Big Vision Podcast listeners and/or Have Fun * Do Good readers, may remember Ari from an interview I did with him and his business partner, Eric Fenster, in 2006 about their work with Back to Earth. Ari Derfel: What inspired me to save a year of trash?

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. Sometimes there are other players that are in action in your head, or in your mind. They have some focus, they have an end goal in mind, and they are still getting a paycheck. They can make it as fun and enjoyable as they want.

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APRIL 25, 2008

We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community. It just seems like such a mind-leap for people to make. I ended up in it from way back, from where I grew up.

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MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. In October the City of Berkeley soft ordered 40 plug-ins and in December the city of Alameda soft ordered 98.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland. . Anyway, he's been well trained, and says in his mind, over and over, "Fear is the mind-killer.". . So what does that mean, exactly, "fear is the mind-killer?" Fear is a mind-killer in the sense that it does have a way of taking over our mind.

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JUNE 22, 2006

So, we'll start by saying that Back to Earth is an organization, is a group of people, working together with a particular goal and focus in mind. We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods. So the question on the table is, is what is and who is Back to Earth.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. This is a part of my daily spiritual practice now, in a mindful way, offering something to another human being. I'd been in the hospital five times in three months, or something like that. My marriage was under a lot of stress because of all of this. Her name is Mbali Creazzo.

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APRIL 24, 2007

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. Climate change is on people's minds. So, we're mindful of that. Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products? Are we being used? We're aware of that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland. . Anyway, he's been well trained, and says in his mind, over and over, "Fear is the mind-killer.". . So what does that mean, exactly, "fear is the mind-killer?" Fear is a mind-killer in the sense that it does have a way of taking over our mind.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. We so often are willing to give and give and give, and our own bodies or our own state of mind is the last thing. So, we started this program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

But here are a few that stick very prominently in my mind. It can be fun. In one of our more successfully fundraising examples we caught the attention of a local blog that covered crime in Oakland. What are the concrete lessons, mistakes, ideas I can pass along to others who might want to join this space? too many times.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music.

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JUNE 30, 2007

One of the things for me, in going to protests and demonstrations about different issues, is that I felt that the protests were really boring, dry and preachy, not fun and compelling. 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. Because it's fun.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

The Movement Strategy Center is a nonprofit organization in Oakland, CA that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement. I think that's a really important question, and we've been very mindful of that, or tried to be. I think we're still on a learning curve.

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JUNE 29, 2006

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 creates a sense of.

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