Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Classtalk (All phones, SMS-based) empowers teachers to communicate with their classes through SMS and email, keeping school subjects and class deadlines at the top of a student's mind. ClassTalk was made through Code for America , a nonprofit that connects app developers with civic leaders to solve city problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We are on the hunt for more like minded techies and NGO staff interested in pursuing a dialog. Attend the DevSummit on February 21-23 in Oakland. Here's a description that Teresa sent me: It has been over two years since the Indian Ocean tsunami, and 16 months since Hurricane Katrina. Are relief teams better prepared for future crises?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

I was joined by Lori Fogarty (ED of the Oakland Museum of California), Adam Lerner (ED and Chief Animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver), and Beck Tench (Director for Innovation and Digital Engagement at the Museum of Life and Science). I'm still figuring out who I want to be as a leader in my own organization.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

We hosted community discussions in Oakland, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, and Portland. While you may have specific goals and a direction in mind for your community, be prepared to modify those based on what community members want. So we asked. What People Want Guides Management.

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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. If you don't want to be that place, you have to be willing to let those ladies go--or at least, not to put them at top of mind when planning future programming. At some point you have to make some "or" choices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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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. I won't post your name, but I will post your question with my answer, so keep that in mind as you write if you don't want details in your question to identify you. . • Be a community gathering space.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. My brother and I started Numi about seven years ago, from here in Oakland, California, and we started in my small apartment up the street, near Piedmont Avenue. Britt: Oakland needs more businesses like Numi.

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People Profit Interview Oakland 43

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I think governments are starting to think about how they can creatively manage our land with food in mind, and that's because awareness has been raised about the demand for local and regional food, and also just about people's need for doing it from a health perspective. That would be pretty amazing. That's one unique thing that's happening.

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Interview Authoring Change Oakland 72

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Groups like Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice located in Oakland, California, working on the front lines of the reproductive justice movement. When the hearts and minds of people are engaged, their effectiveness increases, victories are won and they can not be stopped.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

People lining the street on the Tuesday afternoon when the boards arrived from the Port of Oakland, cheering as the crates came off the truck. Who in their right minds would show up at 8am on a Sunday for a history event? When you hit both these notes, people respond. With Princes of Surf , it started before the exhibition opened.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community. It just seems like such a mind-leap for people to make. I ended up in it from way back, from where I grew up.

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Resource Interview Policy Issue 40

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! When I was a teenager, it blew my mind when I found out about veganism. CW: We all had a meeting and talked about the different things we had in mind.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. Sometimes there are other players that are in action in your head, or in your mind. They have some focus, they have an end goal in mind, and they are still getting a paycheck. Sometimes there is more than one gremlin.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland. . Anyway, he's been well trained, and says in his mind, over and over, "Fear is the mind-killer.". . So what does that mean, exactly, "fear is the mind-killer?" Fear is a mind-killer in the sense that it does have a way of taking over our mind.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Yoga, in its basic form, is about right thought, right speech, right action, and just being a mindful human being. And, "Why did you do it?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. This is a part of my daily spiritual practice now, in a mindful way, offering something to another human being. I'd been in the hospital five times in three months, or something like that. My marriage was under a lot of stress because of all of this. Her name is Mbali Creazzo.

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Challenge Interview Giving Los Angeles 42

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. In October the City of Berkeley soft ordered 40 plug-ins and in December the city of Alameda soft ordered 98.

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

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland. . Anyway, he's been well trained, and says in his mind, over and over, "Fear is the mind-killer.". . So what does that mean, exactly, "fear is the mind-killer?" Fear is a mind-killer in the sense that it does have a way of taking over our mind.

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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. Climate change is on people's minds. So, we're mindful of that. Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products? Are we being used? We're aware of that.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

They work, they fit our needs, and we can hire people who know how to use them, all important features to keep in mind. They’re all accessible at modest cost to most nonprofits. We use these every day at Urban Strategies Council. You may find another way or another tool to suit your needs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

So, we'll start by saying that Back to Earth is an organization, is a group of people, working together with a particular goal and focus in mind. We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods. So the question on the table is, is what is and who is Back to Earth.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. We so often are willing to give and give and give, and our own bodies or our own state of mind is the last thing. So, we started this program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2009

But here are a few that stick very prominently in my mind. In one of our more successfully fundraising examples we caught the attention of a local blog that covered crime in Oakland. What are the concrete lessons, mistakes, ideas I can pass along to others who might want to join this space? Specificity and Transparency. too many times.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I won't post your name, but I will post your question with my answer, so keep that in mind as you write, if you don't want details in your question to identify you. Just an fyi (: Photo taken by me at March 2003 Iraq War protest in Oakland, CA creativity activism art film craft photography music.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California. Third, museums as a "place to be heard"--to share your voice, your stories, your interpretation. Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests.

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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. We’ve reviewed and ranked our top website builders with nonprofits like yours in mind. In addition to donations, Project Open Hand thrives on the generous support of volunteers.

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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

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. I think that's a really important question, and we've been very mindful of that, or tried to be. I think we're still on a learning curve.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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