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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Feeds Contest Denver Oakland 36

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." We are an open source project, to pioneer 'community funded reporting.'” People's Grocery blog, Brahm's Blog. Mission: "Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change.

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Causes Giving Library Meme 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

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. Patrol volunteer offering PPE to local Chinatown residents.

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San Francisco Community Support Oakland 98

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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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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Oakland PDF Literacy Government 36

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

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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Interview Nepal Journal San Francisco 40

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). Reporting Problems. Supporting Youth.

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San Francisco Develop Library Change 61

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. Percentage of amount of itemized contributions from Oakland. OpenOakland: Keeping Oakland Transparent.

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Oakland Campaign Open Data 57

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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Nicaragua Interview Companies Brazil 40

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. We even get Skypes from a woman from Kenya named Leah, who was one of our first grassroots women reporters.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

which is trying to pioneer “community funded reporting,” the act of distributing the cost of hiring an investigative journalist. In short: I fundraise for independent reporters but not through foundations or grant writing. fundraises by making the argument to the public that this reporting will benefit us all.

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Lesson Wiki Journal Report 72

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

Nola is as old as the Center she works for, thirty, and over the past two years, she has become an expert on sexually exploited minors in Oakland and has watched as the population grows. When I asked her why teenage prostitution is so prevalent in Oakland, she said, "Because they can do it here. It can't happen fast enough."

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Oakland San Francisco Life Place 40

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day. Thanks to a custom integration with Luminate Online , this site can support complex sponsorship search and eCommerce tasks while reporting all-important engagement data directly back to the central database.

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