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MAY 7, 2007

Friday, May 11th will be the 3rd annual Mother's Day "Peace of the Pie" National Action Day as part of The Peace Alliance's campaign for a U.S. Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people. NJN was created to give Oakland a place to share stories and to connect and develop solutions.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt! Listen Read 2007 Reem Rahim, Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Numi Tea Listen Read Jodie van Horn, Campaigner for Rainforest Action Network's Freedom From Oil campaign, and Coordinator for Plug-In Bay Area Listen Read Priya Haji, CEO and Co-founder, World of Good.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Marisa Handler, Author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Caravan Studios' SafeNight app uses a similar model, in which individual donors can fund hotel rooms when domestic violence shelters are full. 211 demand is growing 10 percent year over year, according to the founders of Reach , a text-answering app for the national health and human services helpline.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Listen Read Martin Fisher, Co-founder and CEO, KickStart Listen Read ?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

(Ilyse is now the Communications Director for MoveOn.org) Listen Read Steve Williams, Co-founder and Executive Director of POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) Listen Read Anna Lappé, co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and co-founder of the Small Planet Fund. Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

For the next 2012 Farm Bill, it's imperative that we all advocate for change, because that's where the dollars are allocated to different funding pots that support either corn products -- which are making us sick, type 2 diabetes and obesity -- or organic food, and young farmer and rancher programs. Back to the models.

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APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.

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JULY 18, 2017

Local Initiatives Support Corporation ( LISC ) is a national economic development nonprofit that equips struggling and low-income communities with capital, strategy, and know-how so they can become places where people can thrive. He uses Silk to demonstrate the organization's impact, including to its funder, the National Football League.

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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. So yes, awareness around Fair Trade is growing, but it's growing slowly basically because the resources are still insufficient to tackle the job in a major national way.

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JUNE 9, 2015

Local Initiatives Support Corporation ( LISC ) is a national economic development nonprofit that equips struggling and low-income communities with capital, strategy, and know-how so they can become places where people can thrive. He uses Silk to demonstrate the organization's impact, including to its funder, the National Football League.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

She cites the City of Oakland California’s Open Data Platform that make over 50 datasets viewable and understandable to the public including ones on crime, city infrastructure, parks and recreation facilities, and green businesses. It is a large nonprofit and the largest funder of legal aid for low-income Americans in the nation.

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JUNE 30, 2007

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. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. So we started in our small apartment in Oakland, it was about 750 square feet.

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APRIL 25, 2007

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. We say, one way to do that is to kind of focus on Oakland, and make sure that there are people who are being trained, who are peered, to be a part of this new green economy right here in Oakland.

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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.

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