Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. For a while, we were actually funding one story a week and trying to cycle through those.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Software Development Summit is being held on November 16th, 17th, and 18th in Oakland. Read more about the important programs LSC funded. Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Does your organization use YouTube ? That’s why they awarded $3.6 Anything we missed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times throughout October-December as we presented dozens online webinars and guest posts and articles.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The Foundation Center knows that funding for schools is tight. The 2011 Nonprofit Software Development Summit is being held on Novemeber 16th, 17th, and 18th in Oakland. Norman Reiss suggests on his blog “. Luckily, they also know how to get the grants and launch the fundraising campaigns schools and teachers need.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6% of Oakland residents are living in poverty. Start a Giving Circle to fund local organizations. Here are 4 things you can do to alleviate poverty in your community: Volunteer year round.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Foundation’s ability to provide 16 million meals to children and families in the Oakland area in 2020 . Currently serves on various funding and advisory boards, including World Benchmarking Alliance, and has recently been elected president of the American Evaluation Association for 2022 . Founder and CEO. Victoria Vrana.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

My sorority contributes to the Robbie Page Memorial Fund every year and we also create a fun craft for children with terminal illnesses. The Iron Souls is a Motorcycle Club based out of Oakland California that gives back to the betterment of the community. I am a Iron Soul. We really have fun doing it too.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Carpocalypse.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

The same people who produced "Going Within", 49th Parallel Productions , have also created Not Just a Number , a community journalism project for The Oakland Tribune which focuses on the topic of violence and violence prevention. Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Dining for Women Mission: "Dining for Women empowers women living in extreme poverty by funding programs fostering good health, education, and economic self-sufficiency and cultivates educational dinner circles inspiring individuals to make a difference through the power of collective giving." People's Grocery blog, Brahm's Blog.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Youth Radio's Mobile App Lab connects Oakland, CA-based youth with professional app developers and entrepreneurs to propose, develop, and market apps that serve community needs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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JANUARY 25, 2007

Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. We participate in the City of Oakland's Maintain-a-Drain program, and do our part daily to remove litter from the street in our neighborhood. Get help from an agency like the Oakland Business Development Corporation (OBDC).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

When funding is tied to a specific subset of your audience, you get protective of them, even if they are not the people most likely to ensure viability and sustainability in the future. Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 18, 2008

It makes me sad that the Oakland public libraries are so under-funded. Personally, I'd like to start volunteering at my local library. Aside from school and home, I probably spent more time at my local library while I was growing up than anywhere else. Maybe I'll walk down to my local branch and see if they need some help.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Cities including Boston, Philadelphia, Oakland, and Miami now offer access to Candid’s suite of tools at every municipal library. As a result, many library systems have been able to expand their Candid community locations beyond a single branch to all sites across their systems.

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Tech Soup

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. Sergio Medina, an attendee from the nonprofit Covenant House in Oakland, California said that events like these are a great way to get connected to the technology community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

If you have suggestions for people for me to interview for future shows, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com, or leave a comment below. Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2007

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

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Now she is the Campaign 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. Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. My brother and I started Numi about seven years ago, from here in Oakland, California, and we started in my small apartment up the street, near Piedmont Avenue. Britt: Oakland needs more businesses like Numi.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

She said that there will never be enough resources from current funding sources (i.e. Communities need to band together to support their local hospitals to fill in where the traditional resources are not enough by providing service, providing funding, advocating and governing (on Boards of Trustees).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Whether you are starting your own nonprofit, or simply interested in how a person can take a seed of an idea for positive change and make it into reality, you'll find some nuggets of wisdom in this book from the founder of the Global Fund for Women who wrote, "Believing that social change is possible is the beginning.

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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. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. The idea of building capacity, particularly in an economic climate that is harsh, is a huge challenge for us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

You can imagine how excited I was to find out about Fat Bottom Bakery , a vegan bakery in Oakland, CA (where I live) that makes all kind of desserts, including cupcakes! Update: Last week Ashley and Carolynn had the 2nd East Bay Vegan Bake Sale and raised close to $1,200 for Animal Place and the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The Center for Responsive Politics, another nonprofit, released a tool that lets you toggle between in-district versus out-of-district campaign funds. On a local scale, our neighbors at OpenOakland are exposing the campaign finances of Oakland mayoral candidates. Percentage of amount of itemized contributions from Oakland.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

" And then there's the personal causes funding service, Go Fund Me. There you can find projects to fund gas money for someone to attend a music event, buy a new set of roller skates, win a bodybuilding contest, and take a much-needed vacation. I haven't decided what kind yet." Become a digital refugee.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

CH: Our headquarters office here in Oakland is staffed entirely by volunteers, and I always like people to know that of all of the foundation dollars, and donations and grant money that comes in, I divert 94% of it to our in-country operations. BB: How can listeners help? Very little of the money that we get is used in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Goalie for Mission Asset Fund. Next up, Eddie Freeman presented his app, Goalie for the Mission Asset Fund (MAF). The last app demo was from a former TechSouper, Sameer Siruguri, who is currently developing an app for an Oakland nonprofit, Youth ALIVE! They can set goals for building credit and saving money, hence the name.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

The NFL Grassroots Program funds rehabilitation of sports playing fields. LISC's Oakland field page is an example of how Silk enables you to tell a more complete story by including images, text, videos, and more. I spoke to George Koster at San Francisco Bay Area LISC. Silk calls these pages "data cards."

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

The NFL Grassroots Program funds rehabilitation of sports playing fields. LISC's Oakland field page is an example of how Silk enables you to tell a more complete story by including images, text, videos, and more. I spoke to George Koster at San Francisco Bay Area LISC. Silk calls these pages "data cards."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods. So we started offering backpacking yoga trips. We did a program called "We Can Surmount" which is like the AIDS ride, which was taking people who had been cancer survivors or affected by cancer, on to wilderness journeys.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products? What difference does a cup of Fair Trade coffee make? What is Starbucks relationship with Fair Trade?

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