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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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The Dirk Award

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The "Dirk Award" now has its own web page ! There is a history of the award, past recipients, and how it all got started: The Dirk Award dates back to the RoundUp meeting in Kansas City, USA in 2000. In Oakland, it was awarded to Tom Battin from Compasspoint and Fresh White from Compumentor.

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Nonprofit Technology Conference: NTC 2012 – Day 1

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Oakland’s Extra Action Marching Band lead the way into the ballroom with clinging, clanging, trumpets, drums, flag waving, and dancers who danced their hair off. This was followed by the NTENanna awards and colleague Debra Askanase was honored for her support to the community.

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Z?m wins $150M from San Francisco schools to modernize and electrify student transport

TechCrunch

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has awarded Z?m, m, which already operates its rideshare-meets-bus service in Oakland, much of Southern California, Seattle, Chicago and Dallas, will be responsible for handling day-to-day operations, transporting 3,500 students across 150 school campuses starting this fall semester.

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Member Round Up: Fundraising, awards, and.boot camp?

NTEN

From November 14-16, the event will take over Preservation Park in Oakland, California. GreatNonprofits announced the launch of its "community-sourced" Top-Rated Awards. Also coming up in November is the 2012 Nonprofit Software Development Summit , Aspiration 's "Annual NPTechie Love Fest".

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Kimberly Mitchell. National University. Christina Lewis.

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Trusting community organizers to build a multiracial democracy

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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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