Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

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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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Trans*H4ck is based in San Francisco, but has held events in Boston, Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, and more. Liberating Ourselves Locally. Liberating Ourselves Locally is "a people of color-led, gender diverse, queer and trans inclusive hacker/makerspace" in Oakland, California. Also known as LOL!,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

Participate in the 2009 Indie Resolution Challenge sponsored by my local paper, The East Bay Express. In February, they'll mail me an Indie Resolution Journal and information about how to find local businesses. February - celebrate local musicians; March - local, socially responsible investing).

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Staycations are not only affordable, they're also a great way to support your local businesses. Our second tea tasting stop was the Numi Tea Garden in Oakland. Numi Tea is an environmentally and socially responsible tea company based in Oakland (but you can buy their tea nationally). staycation tea local vacation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Join your local NetSquared group. No local group? Oakland, CA: Office 365 for Nonprofits. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story. We have $13,000 in prizes available! Looking for inspiration for your digital story? September 2.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The Alliance for Biking and Walking creates, strengthens, and unites state and local bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations. Consequently, I was pretty excited when the Alliance for Biking and Walking asked me to spread the word about their People Powered Movement Photo Contest. bike walk advocacy nonprofit photgraphy contest

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. I'm going to be great here in Oakland. I'm going to be green.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. This year I facilitated several labs, including several for the Knight Foundation Arts Program to learn about the local arts ecosystem in four cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, Charlotte, and Macon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2006

They have five listed for my city, Oakland. My husband and I went to a new farmers' market in Oakland, the Temescal Farmers' Market, a couple weeks ago, where I took the photos of the beets and tomatoes, and almost all of the produce there was organic, which was a real treat. oakland farmers market organic local food

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Or if face-to-face is more your style, join your local NetSquared group — NetSquared groups are holding digital storytelling events all month. Oakland, California: Office 365 for Nonprofits — Bay Area! Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Looking for inspiration? Storymakers Events.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

You can also create a special reading list, locate books in your local library, and share what you're reading with friends over social media. This student-built app lets players take on the role of a ghost detective who encounters local residents who haunt the community. Apps Made by Youth.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

or Code for Oakland ). The challenges invite social activists and techies to create web-based tools to tackle local issues. There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust. The ReStart Challenges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

Campaign supporters are asked to bring pies to their local Congressional offices and let their Congresspeople know that "Peace wants a Piece of the Pie" (the federal budget). Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people. Department of Peace. Beth Kanter posted about this a couple weeks ago.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2008

Just a quick shout out for Beth Terry, another Oakland-based blogger, who was nice enough to interview me last month for her blog, Fake Plastic Fish. 5) Write a letter to the editor of your local paper. 6) Call your local radio station and let them know about the campaign. Thanks, Beth!

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At Candid, we partner with libraries and nonprofit resource centers across the country to provide nonprofit organizations and local communities with free access to Candid’s educational resources, trainings, and products. Candid community partners are strengthening the local nonprofit sector and helping their communities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

See if a local shelter or animal rescue near you needs volunteers. There are the big ones like ASPCA , but don't forget about the little local ones. We wouldn't have found our awesome cat if it wasn't for Maine Coon Adoptions here in Oakland. He was so happy! Donate to a shelter, rescue, or animal rights organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6% of Oakland residents are living in poverty. Start a Giving Circle to fund local organizations. Here are 4 things you can do to alleviate poverty in your community: Volunteer year round.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

It was shocking and deplorable, really terrible, to learn that and know that it's not at the forefront of a lot of people's thinking when they think about local food or regional food. I feel like the bar's been raised so high in the country around awareness of eating local foods, and policy is definitely the next step. I do book.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

By profiling individuals and organizations who enact various visions of utopia, Oakland's Britt Bravo expresses her own hope for a better world. Through Big Vision , she broadcasts interviews with many of the East Bay's most successful activists for social change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 18, 2008

Personally, I'd like to start volunteering at my local library. Aside from school and home, I probably spent more time at my local library while I was growing up than anywhere else. It makes me sad that the Oakland public libraries are so under-funded. Maybe I'll walk down to my local branch and see if they need some help.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

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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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

If the person you write about has a website, or someone has done a story about them in the local paper, it would be great if you included that link as well. Darius currently serves on the Board of Directors of the McCullum Youth Court in Oakland, CA, and on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Responsible Citizenship in Washington, DC.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines. Organize other local businesses. Create a "Buy Local" holiday shopping weekend with fellow vendors like the San Francisco Small Business Commission's Shop Local First campaign. Donate to your community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. We participate in the City of Oakland's Maintain-a-Drain program, and do our part daily to remove litter from the street in our neighborhood. Get help from an agency like the Oakland Business Development Corporation (OBDC).

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Our intuitions told us that stories of great local projects were not traveling from town to town. Local leaders weren’t getting the credit they deserved. We hosted community discussions in Oakland, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, and Portland. Momentum was being lost. So we asked.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. It's important to give back to your local and global community, but it is also important to "give back" to your friends and family. When she opened the tiny little box, glued inside the lid was a piece of paper that unfolded, like a fortune cookie fortune. It said, "A trip to the zoo!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland Listen Read Lisa Russ, Associate Director, Movement Strategy Center Listen Read Jonah Sachs, Principal, Free Range Studios Listen Read Jessica Jackley Flannery, Co-Founder and Board Member, Kiva.org Listen Read Ingrid Severson, Lead Organizer of the Rooftop Resources Project, a project of Bay Localize Listen Read (..)

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland Listen Read Lisa Russ, Associate Director, Movement Strategy Center Listen Read Jonah Sachs, Principal, Free Range Studios Listen Read Jessica Jackley Flannery, Co-Founder and Board Member, Kiva.org Listen Read Ingrid Severson, Lead Organizer of the Rooftop Resources Project, a project of Bay Localize Listen Read (..)

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

People's Grocery Mission: "Our mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community." I Love Libraries Mission: "Friends of I Love Libraries was created to provide a means for library advocates to strengthen grassroots efforts in support of America’s libraries. Mission: "Spot.Us

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them. Fully eight staff members co-founded the organization, but the most well known 350.org

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Sergio Medina, an attendee from the nonprofit Covenant House in Oakland, California said that events like these are a great way to get connected to the technology community. Karuna Mukherjea, the founder, showed how the San Diego-based campaign Kill the Cup used GoodyGood to reduce consumer waste. Image 1 : Caravan Studios / CC BY-NC.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California. As staff members talked about their goals for the redesigned museum to reach more diverse and localized audiences, they repeatedly said, "we want it to be like Days of the Dead." You can't always do "and."

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

Unwilling to sit by and watch, I took action in my local community by patrolling San Francisco Chinatown with Asians in America, Inc. Patrol volunteer offering PPE to local Chinatown residents. to deter violence and crime. . In addition to individual action, there is great power in turning to my Salesforce.org community for support.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. Not so in Oakland. Mai-ling Garcia, the city of Oakland's online engagement manager, put it succinctly: "We're not here to build applications for you, we're here to build applications with you.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

Engagement with local artists. One of the things we love about exhibiting local artists is that they are often here to talk with visitors about their work. We don't have signs that say Don't Touch. We don't have guards. We do have friendly gallery hosts, but not every hour of the day. all over the place.

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