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JULY 31, 2009

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. If life is a chessboard, content is still king.

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JULY 13, 2008

It's interesting, a man from Oakland is doing a documentary on street recyclers, the people who go around and pick up recycling from all of our bins, and that's how they make their living. AD: Honestly, for whatever reason, I am a human being who feels a lot in my life. [laughs] I love that that is one of the most popular questions.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

We love these map layers for local work, but for nonprofits working across nations these are incredible time savers. ArcExplorer Having access to great maps on your desktop is nice, but how can you take this life changing map with you? Now your simple maps can look very professional with no extra cost or effort.

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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. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. So, if you see Van speak, our goal is to have a place that you can plug in, a local leader who says, "Come to my house." A team from Circle of Life , and myself, went around and started studying organizing models.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Even as these companies rake in massive profits and outperform their more traditional competitors, the life of the platform worker is not getting better. For instance, Uber has transformed the taxi industry in the decade following its inception in 2009,and now dominates 69 percent of the ride-sharing market.

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JUNE 30, 2007

In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

The Movement Strategy Center is a nonprofit organization in Oakland, CA that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement. The Center helps to build local, regional, and national networks of young activists, across interests, constituencies and geographies.

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APRIL 25, 2007

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. People, when you have a lot of crisis in your life, hearing about an even bigger crisis is just depressing. Oakland, among other places, sued, got a four-point-something million dollar settlement.

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