Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

Compassion in Oakland : Compassion in Oakland provides Oakland Chinatown with resources for promoting safety and community through elder chaperoning and community outreach. Read more about how to become an ally and how to combat anti-Asian racism , and take a course on cultivating equality in the workplace.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jeffrey Bryan, a veterinary oncologist Emily Jacobi, Digital Democracy Jenny Ramo, New Mexico Appleseed Kavita Ramdas, formerly of Global Fund for Women ( I interviewed Kavita in April 2008 ) Kenya Masala, Source Consulting Group, (he's the musician behind the Big Vision Podcast's intro and outro music).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Mitigating the effects of climate change and pollution is a global problem, but it’s one that requires local solutions. West Oakland, for instance, has used Aclima’s data to develop community intervention plans to reduce pollution in the communities that have been most impacted by the regions industrial economy.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. is an organization based out of Oakland, California. of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning global. Youth Radio's mission is to connect Oakland-based young people with pro developers and entrepreneurs to.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

500 Global just brought back Demo Day to San Francisco, although its class of startups came from all over the world. Techstars, one of the largest pre-seed investors in the world, just launched a new accelerator in Oakland, California. Y Combinator isn’t alone in its refocus on Silicon Valley.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2013

Here on the TechSoup blog you have heard from an accidental hacker at a hackathon , our Senior Director of Global Data Services formerly from the Ford Foundation , and also our data digests from our colleague at GuideStar International on the power of data. Check out the Netsquared blog for a detailed write-up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Oakland, California-based Marqeta, which went public in 2021 and is today valued at nearly $3.7 billion, touts that it “provides a single, global, cloud-based, open API Platform for modern card issuing and transaction processing.” The company at the time had also announced a $300 million credit facility.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

They are all contractors globally,” Swaminathan said, when asked about the coaching payment structure. Scholl’s, RingCentral and public and government institutions like Purdue University, Oakland Housing Authority and Job Corps centers run by the U.S. Department of Labor. ”

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Candid

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Ford Foundation announces second cohort of global fellows. The Ford Foundation has announced a second cohort of Ford Global Fellows , who will receive access to the tools, networks, and solidarity they need to work better, smarter, and more sustainably in the long haul. in collaboration with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. Read more. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Oakland-based Eclipse Foods doesn’t want its sustainable, plant-based dairy products to be just another substitute; they want it to be so similar to conventional dairy in taste, texture and functionality that you won’t be able to tell the difference. Eclipse Foods’s family of plant-based ice cream Image Credits: Eclipse Foods.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

TechSoup Global and NetSquared attended hackathons across the country—from Hawaii to Vermont—that tackled local, statewide, and national civic issues. For example, Code for Oakland hosted an event called ReWrite Oakland, which focused how to make the Oakland city government website more accessible and easier to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

By profiling individuals and organizations who enact various visions of utopia, Oakland's Britt Bravo expresses her own hope for a better world. Through Big Vision , she broadcasts interviews with many of the East Bay's most successful activists for social change.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2014

TechSoup Global and Tech Impact are teaming up to do a series of free one-day events for charities and libraries in September called Office 365 Roadshows. Thursday, September 18 th in Oakland. We'll also report back after the Oakland event to share what we learned. Office 365 Roadshows Coming to America. Register here.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

If you're in the Bay Area November 18-20, come check out Aspiration's 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland. This is the third time Aspiration has hosted this event, and by the look of the session list , there will be no shortage of great discussions. The conference isn't only for programmers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2011

Yesterday in Oakland, California I had the privilege of speaking at a conference. TechSoup Global has its roots in supporting social benefit organizations and understands the power of organizing data into meaningful information, and we continue to provide resources in that regards as part of our DNA and mission. Community Service.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

ESRI makes their global coverage basemaps available for free to layer beneath your own map. Perhaps the single most useful feature for nonprofits is a great time saver and quality booster called ArcGIS Online. In the past, every organization had to maintain their own detailed basemaps and aerial photography for map context.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

or Code for Oakland ). Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). meets LinkedIn for students. The ReStart Challenges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

2012 Stacey Edgar, Founder, Global Girlfriend listen 2011 Gabriela Masala, Founder, One Love Alliance listen Robert Wolfe, Co-Founder, Crowdrise listen Aneesha Raghunathan, Founder, Hope Line Fashions listen Rachel Cohen, Founder and Executive Director, Hand2Paw listen Kathy LeMay, Founder, Raising Change. Happy listening!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

China through its mining companies and battery manufacturers is currently in the lead , thanks to a years-long push to control both the supply of lithium and develop massive new manufacturing capacity to meet global demand.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen. 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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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

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. The program also helps everyone build credit scores.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone. 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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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

We ate at Six Feet Under , a delightful seafood restaurant overlooking the famous Oakland Cemetery. NGOs understand the issues in troubled areas as well as reporters do; we have the opportunity to market our sector as a trusted, impartial source for global reporting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2007

Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. 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.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

“In addition to constantly improving the open source and enterprise self-hosted downloadable versions, we will continue to invest in making our cloud-based offering globally available.” But Kontsevoy points to Oakland, California-based Teleport’s customer base as evidence of its growing traction in the market.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. It's important to give back to your local and global community, but it is also important to "give back" to your friends and family. When she opened the tiny little box, glued inside the lid was a piece of paper that unfolded, like a fortune cookie fortune. It said, "A trip to the zoo!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

GI-NET's blog Global Fund for Women Mission: "The Global Fund for women promotes women's economic security, health, education and leadership." Global Fund for Women's blog Maine Coon Adoptions They rescued and helped us adopt our Maine Coon cat, Dora! People's Grocery blog, Brahm's Blog. Mission: "Spot.Us

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Organized by Insafe , and co-founded by the European Union, Safer Internet Day is a global campaign that encourages responsible use of online technologies and services. Join the global conversation by: Sharing a safety tip directly on Microsoft's Safer Online site. Oakland, CA. Joining the Safer Internet Day Twitter party.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2007

Over the past month, many of you have posted comments or sent me emails about my interview with Van Jones, the President and Co-founder of Oakland's Ella Baker Center , that I posted here, and on the Big Vision Podcast. The Select Committee held a special hearing, entitled: "Economic Impacts of Global Warming: Green Collar Jobs."

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2014

TechSoup Global and Tech Impact are teaming up to do a series of free one-day events for charities and libraries in September called Office 365 Roadshows. Thursday, September 18 th in Oakland. Here's a chance to find out what Office 365 is, how it can benefit your nonprofit, and what it takes to implement it.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Listen Read Abby Rosenheck (now Jaramillo), Founder and Executive Director, Urban Sprouts Listen Read Ilyse Hogue, Global Finance Campaign Director, Rainforest Action Network. Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland. (Mei-ying is now the Operations Director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network).

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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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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

We hosted community discussions in Oakland, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, and Portland. I knew that if we could understand the connections and visualize the breadth of global efforts on behalf of social and environmental justice, we would recognize the largest movement the world has ever seen. So we asked.

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