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Jennifer Lee, Right-Brain Business Plan: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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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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13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day

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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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Funding Personal and Social Transformation: Paula Sammons, Seasons Fund

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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. Cross posted from BlogHer.

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

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The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? He was actually dealing with those leaders, helping them build skills, helping them be inspired, and he was their coordinator. Cross-posted from BlogHer. I wanted to know what worked, what didn't work, and what did he learn.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

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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). Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher.

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

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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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