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Due Diligence Best Practices for Grantmakers

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That will quickly give you an overview of what financial reports the Board is receiving and reviewing. For example, when conducting a site visit in Oakland, CA, a private foundation let us know that one area of concern they had with this particular grantee was late reporting.

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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu. Using tweets' GPS, the database can then track where the rack is. ReWrite Oakland. Image 3: ReWrite Oakland, Caravan Studios. Honolulu Day of Civic Hacking. Burlington, VT Day of Civic Hacking.

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3 Ways to Support the Asian American Community

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Materials distributed in San Francisco Chinatown on how to report Asian hate crimes, written in English and Chinese. From chaperoning elders to reporting anti-Asian hate crimes to intervening as an effective bystander. Photo Credit: Aaron Molo. This perpetual fear cannot continue.

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5 Things Oakland Taught Me about Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

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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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. 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.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. 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.

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Developers and Nonprofits Come Together to Make Apps for Change

Tech Soup

Reporting Problems. The THC app , created by Hunaid Hussain, enables tenants and staff to report landlord violations in single resident occupancy (SRO) hotels and apartment buildings. The last app demo was from a former TechSouper, Sameer Siruguri, who is currently developing an app for an Oakland nonprofit, Youth ALIVE!