Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

Each volunteer can carry up to 600 pounds of food, and logistics are coordinated through an online application called the Robot , making this model replicable and easy to handle with only one full-time employee. The prototype of the software is already being used in five cities, including Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The organization works to provide donors and the charities they love with tools, ratings, and information needed for informed decisions and investments . Foundation’s ability to provide 16 million meals to children and families in the Oakland area in 2020 . Michael Thatcher. President and CEO. Charity Navigator. Chris Helfrich.

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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. And Social Justice Leadership, a group that offers tools and trainings to grassroots organizers in New York City.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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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. The second one is the Localization Mapping Project that shows on a GIS map all the different localization projects happening in the nine county region of the Bay Area as a tool that other people can plug into.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social Media for NonProfit Rockstars submitted by Ed Schipul Nonprofits wanting to enter into the Social Media arena are faced with endless new networks and tools to try, but a few have kicked some major butt. This panel will explore and discuss the impact of tools like Twitter, Qik, Utterz, Ustream, and more on current and future elections.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So, we created the organization, sort of, to really use food as a tool for social change that we could really leverage to address multiple issues. The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. And then we do a summer camp program, called, "Food and Justice Camp."

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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. Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. It takes longer to re-tool supply chains. Are we being used? We're aware of that.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

TechSoup's senior online community manager, Lewis Haidt, predicts that charities will use more sophisticated group social media tools like Thunderclap that amplify messaging. Forrester is forecasting that public cloud vendors will begin offering more of a hybrid model that includes some on-premise implementations to meet growing demand.

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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. 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 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 app integrates with both Eventbrite and Meetup, favorite tools among nonprofit community organizers. Let's dive in. Identifying Nearby Resources. LocalFreeWeb.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. It's such a powerful tool for me, because I'm able to look at, "OK. What works? What doesn't?

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

If you think a web overhaul might make sense for your organization, make sure you have the right tools on hand to start making improvements yourself—namely, a strong website builder and nonprofit-specific web development support. National Partnership for Women & Families. SEEP Network. iThrive Games. Tree House Humane Society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2012

I haven’t seen a campaign this swift on Facebook before & thought it might be a good model for some nonprofits to follow.” AXIS Dance Company is based in Oakland, CA. We began with two ads targeting people in a 50 mile radius of Oakland. ” He wrote a blog post about this here. What techniques?

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