Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Mission Assets Fund is scaling up its unique Lending Circles program, a social loan program that enables low-income people who are outside the banking system to lend and borrow with each other with interest-free social loans. The program also helps everyone build credit scores. Semi-Finalists ($100,000 grant winners).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2011

Still totally inspired by Save Oakland Library. A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week. I wouldn't exactly call Robyn O'Brien's book, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It , fun, but it's definitely eye-opening.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Carpocalypse.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 13, 2015

He currently lives in Oakland, California with his girlfriend and three cats. _. Whether you’re running a one-person show or are part of a huge organization, you have systems. So why not integrate your web forms with those very same systems? 4) Pay Some Attention to Branding.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Oakland, CA. Find donated security products and TechSoup resources on our Keep Systems Secure page. Safety Wisdom. The safety tips are already pouring in from around the world: "I will not open links emailed from people I don't know!" " - Becky W., " - Michael M., More Internet Safety Resources from TechSoup.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I’m really psyched about the Nonprofit Development Summit , happening here, in my (current) fair city, Oakland (I love it that I don’t have to travel so much anymore.) Vote for them , especially the one I’m helping out with (David Geilhufe is the spearhead) on open source CRM. Go figure. It might be interesting. {

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

It is a social venture of the Oakland-based employment training nonprofit Stride Center. He set up the MultiPoint Server system. Intended Use of the New MultiPoint Server System. Ben added that the system is "super cheap to maintain." This lab didn’t replace an existing lab.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As a result, many library systems have been able to expand their Candid community locations beyond a single branch to all sites across their systems. Cities including Boston, Philadelphia, Oakland, and Miami now offer access to Candid’s suite of tools at every municipal library.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. So, how can we really increase the equity and the justice for our food system? farm operators are women?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

On the other hand, if you have a system and are already collecting a data point, than it is easy. The last question is important because if a particular set of metrics requires hours and hours of collection work, it may not be worth it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Are mapping and geographic information systems possible and affordable? * Attend the DevSummit on February 21-23 in Oakland. Among the topics to be addressed at the Summit: * What software and other ICTs do field users need in a disaster response? What software is ready for use in emergencies today? Join the online discussion group.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. What Can Be Done with a Cloud IT System? On October 24, 2009, 350.org

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Brings a strategic focus on addressing the policies and systems that perpetuate global poverty . Abby Maxman. President and CEO. Oxfam America. Chris Helfrich.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2015

The prototype of the software is already being used in five cities, including Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California. In an effort to spread food rescues across the country, Boulder Food Rescue made this logistics tool free to any nonprofit or food rescue that wants to automate some of its program's efforts. Results That Matter.

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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." I Love Libraries Mission: "Friends of I Love Libraries was created to provide a means for library advocates to strengthen grassroots efforts in support of America’s libraries. Mission: "Spot.Us

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). They have an integrated, cloud-based IT system in which everyone has laptops and merely needs some way to get to the Internet to plug in to 350.org. What Can Be Done with a Cloud IT System? The organization has a staff of 40 worldwide and also three offices in the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. So, that's sort of the grand vision of the organization, is to build a local food system that's founded on economic development, that's founded on a perspective of health, community health and personal health, and education.

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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. We're choosing a one half-square mile region of Oakland. We're going to choose a region of Oakland that has all the criteria of the buildings we're looking to show.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. It doesn't matter if you don't want to privatize your education system, we'll still privatize it anyway.'

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

I didn't, until I talked last month with Joan Cardellino, the Director of Volunteer Services for the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. For example, after our conversation, I checked out the volunteer opportunities at one of my local hospitals, the Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Our political education starts on a very basic level by identifying the systems of oppression that we live under here in the United States. So I’m only 26.

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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 a recommendation system that helps visitors find things that they'll like or be inspired by based on the preferences of previous visitors. On Wednesday, it's my birthday. In the interview, we talk about the idea of Web 2.0

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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. We fund personal development work that increases organizational effectiveness and encourages strong leadership. In the words of the great leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

24th and that Michael Stein was one of the co-hosts, I assumed (wrongly) that it was Michael Stein , Internet Strategist from Oakland, CA. tools take collaboration and information sharing to a whole new level, the non-profits I work with have nuts and bolts Information Systems issues that are, and should be high priorities.

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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). Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. With snacks!

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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. What I was most interested in, and intrigued by while being there was looking at how they were rebuilding their political system. BB: When I hear that I think, wow, that is a huge, depressing, systemic problem.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

– sets off a chain of events in many nonprofits: much excitement and anticipation that ultimately ends in a fizzle when executives realize how expensive this endeavor can be, or how little any of their staff know about mapping or GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Peter Campbell, Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice in Oakland, reviewed several drafts and added his insights. But since I’ve been a consultant for over a decade and may have lost touch with the real world, I asked several friends who have moved up the ladder of technical leadership what advice they would offer.

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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

SMC Connect is currently linked on the San Mateo County Library system's website and bookmarked on branch library public access computers. Another product of Code for America, Balance is a text message system for checking an EBT card balance (SNAP benefits). Bond & Me. Managing Finances. Supporting Youth. Youth ALIVE!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

Early in his nonprofit career, David became the founding director of the Eastmont Computing Center in East Oakland (now called the David Glover Education and Technology Center ). NetSuite TribeHR , a cloud-based Human Resources Information System, is also available through the TechSoup donation program. Here is David’s story.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

CFA Fellows gave South Bend residents a say about what happens to properties in their neighborhood, made public records more accessible in Oakland, and provided judges in Louisville with a better insight into population management in the justice system.

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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. . Our heart rate rises, the blood is redirected from less essential areas, like our digestive systems, to the muscles. Today's reading, from Romans 8, verses 12 through 15 (from the SENT translation ) says: . "So Fear, in its essence, is a survival mechanism.

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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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