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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

Tech Soup

We were shocked when we saw the 25 winners of the big $100,000 to $500,000 Google Impact Challenge Awards. Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. The guiding principle of the awards is to “apply a Silicon Valley mindset to social innovation.

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Trusting community organizers to build a multiracial democracy

Candid

Fund, the San Francisco Foundation, and the California Wellness Foundation, have long partnered with power-building organizations such as Oakland Rising and statewide networks like PICO California. Funders, for their part, went beyond awarding grants by learning about organizations’ agendas and aspirations, and by mobilizing other funders.

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Living Plastic-Free with Beth Terry (Big Vision Podcast)

Have Fun - Do Good

She spearheaded the successful Take Back the Filter Brita recycling campaign in 2008, and her life and work have been profiled in Susan Freinkel's book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story , in Captain Charles Moore's book, Plastic Ocean , and in the award-winning film, Bag It. You can follow her on Twitter at @PlasticfreeBeth.

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Tesla blames ‘turf war’ for overlapping investigations into racial bias at its factory

The Verge

In a filing in state court in Oakland, Tesla revealed that it is also being investigated by a different civil rights agency into similar allegations, accusing both agencies of conducting a “turf war.” The company also accused DFEH of violating a state law that requires it to meet certain thresholds before suing an employer.

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Win a copy of Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World

Have Fun - Do Good

To enter the raffle to win a copy of this Indie Excellence Award winning book, leave a comment below about an "ordinary" person you know who is doing extraordinary things to change the world. Please include your email so I can contact you if you win. While in Florida, Darius created Books All Around, Inc. , ordinary heroes book

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Nomad Cafe: How to Start a Green Cafe

Have Fun - Do Good

Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. Nomad is a statewide waste reduction award winner, through the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB). Both of those laws passed and are now in effect. Have you ever thought about starting a green cafe? Secure financing.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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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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