Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings.

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NTEN

AUGUST 2, 2011

This all-day conference is dedicated to helping nonprofit professionals broaden their skill set, connect with the community, and get inspired – so mark your calenders for this September 19th, in Oakland, CA. CompassPoint is hosting its 24th annual Nonprofit Day!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times throughout October-December as we presented dozens online webinars and guest posts and articles.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 2013

Although I've been writing about tech for a few years, I have no coding or programming skills. Events like ReWrite Oakland (read Sarah Washburn of TechSoup for Libraries/Caravan Studios' recap of the event here ) and the [freespace] hackathon in San Francisco were more focused on swapping ideas than programming.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

They've aggregated over 3,500 volunteer opportunities, so there's almost certainly something out there to match your skills set. That's 5 years work at a full-time job! But there's no reason we can't give a little more. Our partner OneWebDay also has a variety of service events taking place on and around Sept.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Jose sits on various economic development boards: the Oakland Workforce Investment Board, the Bay Area Business Advisory Board of Directors for the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, and the OneCalifornia Bank Advisory Board.

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MAY 21, 2006

Last Thursday I went to hear Majora Carter from Sustainable South Bronx , Paul Hawken , author of Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce , Van Jones from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , Geralina Fortier from People's Grocery , and Bruce Cox of the Alliance for West Oakland Development speak at the first Solutions Salon.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2011

Yesterday in Oakland, California I had the privilege of speaking at a conference. entitled "Become a Data-Driven Organization," hosted and supported by the United Way of the Bay Area and the Corporation for National and. Community Service.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

It is a social venture of the Oakland-based employment training nonprofit Stride Center. Xiao Ma, who is an A+-certified IT technician, has advanced IT skills. The organization also does computer repair and refurbishment in its Gold Star Certified Renewed Computers program. Open Office. This lab didn’t replace an existing lab.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Last week fifty people squeezed into the Marcus Bookstore in Oakland to hear young women share their stories, their rants, and their issues from a new collection of women's writing, We Got Issues! Buying fair trade coffee and family farm-raised food is casting my vote. One of the ways we find them is when we step on them and they blow up.

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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." blog Streetside Stories Mission: "Through the power of storytelling, Streetside values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills."

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JULY 31, 2007

If you have a book or a vision that should be shared with others, then we want to increase your skills and your support system to create your pathway to publication. For more info. about the conference go to www.sfwritingforchange.org , or call Elizabeth Pomada at (415) 673-0939.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

Please take the time to volunteer your time, skills, or money to nonprofits working to dismantle Asian racism. . Compassion in Oakland : Compassion in Oakland provides Oakland Chinatown with resources for promoting safety and community through elder chaperoning and community outreach.

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MAY 27, 2007

Over the past month, many of you have posted comments or sent me emails about my interview with Van Jones, the President and Co-founder of Oakland's Ella Baker Center , that I posted here, and on the Big Vision Podcast. workers (and would-be workers) access to the skills they will need to compete in the new, green job market."

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AUGUST 29, 2010

What if the people that were employed by the government to plant them were actually skilled at producing food? City Slickers Farm is taking over a park, with the support of the city of Oakland. They're going to be growing some food in one of the downtown West Oakland parks, which is pretty exciting. That would be pretty amazing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). It might be an educational program that links visitors to each other via their affinities and skills rather than staff providing all of the instruction. On Wednesday, it's my birthday. In the interview, we talk about the idea of Web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Groups like Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice located in Oakland, California, working on the front lines of the reproductive justice movement. For practitioners or activists who are in need of these skills and trainings, they can get in touch with the Fund.

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DECEMBER 14, 2006

Realizing that you yourself can effect such change will lead you to clarify your vision and identify the skills you need to prepare the ground and plant the seeds of change." I met Bryant, who created all the recipes for the book, just last week at a fundraiser for the Oakland-based food justice nonprofit, People's Grocery.

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MAY 10, 2006

SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We just recently moved to downtown Oakland, and we talk about ourselves as a school to build a movement. We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. So I’m only 26.

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JUNE 21, 2006

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. It's not just for West Oakland; it's for young people throughout the Bay Area. And it's all primarily youth run, as well, so it's another kind of laboratory for our young people to learn business skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Accessing sustainable food is easier with for mobile access to databases (Seafood Watch), delivery of hyper local foods (Spud.com), online links for farmers and buyers (Roots of Change), and maps of food grown in your neighborhood (Forage Oakland). Ever wonder if there's a higher good you could be serving with your tech skills?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Kaufman described eight traits of a successful technology leader: Functional business orientation and communication skills Political savvy. Peter Campbell, Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice in Oakland, reviewed several drafts and added his insights. I’ve organized these tips around the traits Ms. Kaufman identified.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

When women have access to specific skills, training, and education, all of a sudden their survival and livelihood statistics shoot way up, not only their own, but entire communities. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism.

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JULY 3, 2006

We developed negotiation training to develop the capacity of the women to be able to ask for better working conditions, better wages, which is something that the women said they that had no understanding of, no access to those levels of skills. SOUL is located here in the Bay area, in Oakland. Steve Williams: Yes. That's one.

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APRIL 25, 2008

I think it is a really interesting time because we have a young staff, and a staff that is very enthusiastic about taking on their own leadership roles, doing more writing, getting more politically involved, and developing their own skills of management and leadership within the organization. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

What I like most about this app is that it teaches financial literacy skills by letting users drill down into their expenses and easily keep track of what they're spending. The last app demo was from a former TechSouper, Sameer Siruguri, who is currently developing an app for an Oakland nonprofit, Youth ALIVE! Supporting Youth.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. I don't have all of the skills needed to run a business. I asked Jennifer Lee, founder of Artizen Coaching , to talk about how to find your purpose, make your big vision real, and deal with the fears that can come up when you pursue your dreams.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

They used online trainings in multi-channel communications, and provided substantial support to equip youth leaders with the skills and confidence they needed to talk to their peers about deeply personal sexual and reproductive health topics.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Women here in Oakland. I’ve been a guest presenter during their 16-week program where the women learn English and entrepreneurial skills. You can connect with Jenn on Twitter @artizencoaching , the RBBP Facebook Fan Page , The Right-Brainers in Business Video Summit , her personal blog , and on Instagram: @jennlee.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

That means building in more structure and more discipline, and for myself, it was a lot of letting go of doing everything and knowing how to do it, you know, figuring everything out and really bringing in people who bring that different set of skills. I ended up going into bodywork to have a skill that I could perform with my hands.

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JUNE 22, 2006

We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods. That sense that here's this other person excited about this, willing to do this, and the sense that we both got from each other that there's a lot of competence and a lot of skill was there.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Streetside Stories "Through the power of storytelling, Streetside values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills." 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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JANUARY 16, 2009

--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. But, I had people who gave me skills. Little by little, I feel like I got this huge set of skills.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

He was actually dealing with those leaders, helping them build skills, helping them be inspired, and he was their coordinator. He takes them through both that process of skills building, of how to run a group and build other leaders, and also a spiritual maturity process. He was a very big influence.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

By organizing mission trips, launching residential care programs, and hosting educational programs in developing communities, Mustard Seed strives to equip individuals with the skills they need to be self-sustaining, healthy, and happy. The Mustard Seed website highlights their efforts by placing a prominent focus on their mission.

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JUNE 30, 2007

Then out of that class, I did a lot of work and discovered that what I wanted to do was pass on the Art and Revolution skills, the dance, and the theater and how to bring art into the streets to homeless youth, and low-income youth of color. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland.

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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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