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Force Multiplier Podcast Episode 1: Addressing Hidden Hunger in our Communities

Saleforce Nonprofit

Tech solutions combined with forward-thinking, inspired, and innovative community leaders like Gita Rampersad, vice president of healthcare partnerships and nutrition at Feeding America, and Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, superintendent of Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), offer a model for how to tackle complex issues. Food insecurity.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

The work of the organization was recently recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and bettering conditions for peace by preventing the use of hunger as a weapon of war . Foundation’s ability to provide 16 million meals to children and families in the Oakland area in 2020 . Cleveland Clinic.

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Feeding the Hungry in the Land of Plenty

Tech Soup

In an effort to spread food rescues across the country, Boulder Food Rescue made this logistics tool free to any nonprofit or food rescue that wants to automate some of its program's efforts. The prototype of the software is already being used in five cities, including Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California. Results That Matter.

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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. So I moved back and went to business school and got some tools and then launched TransFair a few years later. It takes longer to re-tool supply chains.