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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu. ReWrite Oakland.

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Bay Localize & Green Roofs: An Interview with Ingrid Severson

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Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. Ingrid: Bay Localize is a non-profit project that started back in December of 2005. And also by raising awareness about the concept of re-localizing to bring other people into the movement as well.

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Feeding the Hungry in the Land of Plenty

Tech Soup

Working with local businesses, Boulder Food Rescue identifies places where food that would usually be thrown away can be saved instead. The prototype of the software is already being used in five cities, including Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California. Boulder Food Rescue exists to fill these gaps. Results That Matter.

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Member Round Up: Fundraising, awards, and.boot camp?

NTEN

Luckily, there are plenty of opportunities to do so: you can nominate local unsung heroes or become a speed catcher for young leaders (read on to learn what that means), or find resources to help your organization have a successful fundraising season! From November 14-16, the event will take over Preservation Park in Oakland, California.

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3 Ways to Support the Asian American Community

Saleforce Nonprofit

Materials distributed in San Francisco Chinatown on how to report Asian hate crimes, written in English and Chinese. Unwilling to sit by and watch, I took action in my local community by patrolling San Francisco Chinatown with Asians in America, Inc. Because the model minority myth created a false pecking order of identities.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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Cristi Hegranes: My name is Cristi Hegranes and I am the President and Founder of The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World which is an international nonprofit organization that was founded in order to train women in developing countries to become investigative reporters to report their own news. CH: Yes, we do.

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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. Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. That is not true, only 4%, by Starbucks own reports, is Fair Trade certified.