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3 Ways to Support the Asian American Community

Saleforce Nonprofit

I was born and raised in suburban Chicago to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. Unwilling to sit by and watch, I took action in my local community by patrolling San Francisco Chinatown with Asians in America, Inc. Learn the History of Asian Racism to Understand Present-Day Intersectionality . Photo Credit: Aaron Molo.

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Meditations on Relevance Part 5: Relevance is a Bridge

Museum 2.0

This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. Princes of Surf is about the young Hawaiian princes who brought surfing to the Americas 130 years ago--relevant because they did it in Santa Cruz, with boards shaped from local wood, on waves I bike by every week. Killer content.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. The greatest thing that I came away with is that the United States' and the European notions of what African history is all about, are so simplified. It is a much more complex and nuanced history.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

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. People want to be on the right side of history. She's the first person in the history of this entire area to go on to college. Everyone goes to the store.

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Ari Derfel & Eric Fenster, Back to Earth Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

So the brief history is that Back to Earth was originated with a vision that Eric Fenster had when he was on a vision quest in the Owl's Head Mountains in. We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods. a clearer picture of what we're doing now. near Death Valley, California.

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Solutionary Women: Nola Brantley of the Scotlan Youth and Family Center

Have Fun - Do Good

Nola is as old as the Center she works for, thirty, and over the past two years, she has become an expert on sexually exploited minors in Oakland and has watched as the population grows. When I asked her why teenage prostitution is so prevalent in Oakland, she said, "Because they can do it here. It can't happen fast enough."

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Ask Britt: How can I combine the creative arts with social impact?

Have Fun - Do Good

Examples of socially rousing photography permeate our history: Vietnam, Rwanda, 9-11’s Ground Zero. Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes." Photojournalist Paola Gianturco's book, Women Who Light the Dark.

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