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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

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Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a civil rights and restorative justice organization for prisoners and for Oakland young adults.

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

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She is also co-host of the radio show, The Queens of Green on Green 960 , which you can also be downloaded as a podcast. They all represent either a farmer, educator, activist, or chef, but they still share the connection that they're aware of global issues. The members actually put the money in upfront. They traveled.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

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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. They need to put the money into making the battery technology available, but they are claiming that they can't do that.

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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. At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products?

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Favianna Rodriguez: Political Digital Artist and Printmaker

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--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. Even stuff around "green." Many political poster artists gave me the power, and the confidence to know that I could paint, myself.

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

Non Profit Quarterly

Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies. The global financial crisis in 2008 also led labor unions to re-imagine new partnerships with various worker cooperatives, both in and out of the platform economy.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

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In 2013, she co-authored Social Change Anytime Everywhere: How to implement online multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money, and engage your community with Allyson Kaplin. She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global. She is one of our great online community organizers.