Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We make a huge effort to disseminate our news locally via radio partnerships, and other satellite partnerships, so that the people in the communities we serve are benefiting from our news first. CH: How much money can I donate? Very little of the money that we get is used in the U.S. They can volunteer locally, or from anywhere.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

You can imagine how excited I was to find out about Fat Bottom Bakery , a vegan bakery in Oakland, CA (where I live) that makes all kind of desserts, including cupcakes! They also produce the East Bay Vegan Bake Sale where they sell baked goods to raise money for charity. Britt Bravo: Why a vegan bakery?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 13, 2008

I learned what I spent most of my money on because by watching a pile of trash grow over a year, I really began to see, "Wow! The second thing that I learned really powerfully, in addition to what I spend my money on, is what I put in my body. laughs] I love that that is one of the most popular questions. And, "Why did you do it?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. They need to put the money into making the battery technology available, but they are claiming that they can't do that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

My business hadn't made any money in months. I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. We have these little 29 Gift cards that people would tie onto the flowers, and she actually made a couple vases full of those, and took them into a local coffee shop. Now there are organized events happening locally. I was broke.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

So the first thing that we did was we started an outdoor organization, because it didn't require a lot of money. We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods. It's not about making a living meaning I do some work to get money, it's about this is my living.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

On a local scale, our neighbors at OpenOakland are exposing the campaign finances of Oakland mayoral candidates. The finance data was self-reported by all Oakland mayoral candidate controlled committees. The data categories include: Total money raised. Percentage of amount of itemized contributions from Oakland.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First up was Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented a nifty tool for bridging the digital divide. The user can go to any bus stop and simply text the stop ID number (listed on every bus stop) to a local phone number (415-528-3226). Supporting Youth. Youth ALIVE!

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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. In most states in the US and in many countries, there are other folks who have invested serious time and money in building web based mapping platforms you can leverage for your needs.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Peter Campbell, Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice in Oakland, reviewed several drafts and added his insights. At the end of the day, you have to "show them the money." I’ve organized these tips around the traits Ms. Kaufman identified. Get good at cost/benefit analysis and measuring ROI. Don't fudge your costs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

It means you know exactly where your money goes. In one of our more successfully fundraising examples we caught the attention of a local blog that covered crime in Oakland. Commitment of time/resources and/or money from both parties. Money: Yes, it is the root of all evil, but a little money can grease the wheels.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Maybe you're going to give money. 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." We are testing it on the ground with these social champions, and with curriculum, and with local leaders. You can see if there is a local group in your area.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently, SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU- UHW West) in Oakland California also helped launch AlliedUP , a cooperative staffing firm owned by allied professional healthcare workers, by investing in startup costs. These connections are often fostered between union workers who learn about platform worker exploitation.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In addition to encouraging donations, North Shore Animal League also enables supporters to raise money on their behalf through an integrated Blackbaud peer-to-peer fundraising tool. In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

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. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. So we started in our small apartment in Oakland, it was about 750 square feet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. We say, one way to do that is to kind of focus on Oakland, and make sure that there are people who are being trained, who are peered, to be a part of this new green economy right here in Oakland.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

We put a public call on the Web first and sent a notice to our membership and some local and regional historical societies, preaching to the choir, starting that way. We also got some good marketing money, were able to place some ads about it. Local media was also interested; they were looking for content about the sesquicentennial.

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