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Earth Day 2025: Detroit plants sequoias to clean the air—and save the trees

Fast Company Tech

Co-founder David Milarch says Archangel also plans to plant sequoias in Los Angeles, Oakland, California, and London. They grow them in the classrooms and plant them around the schools. What are giant sequoias? We empower our kids to teach them how to do this and give them the materials and the way to do this themselves, Milarch said.

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Member Round Up: Watching What We Say

NTEN

Check out their top 15 resources for finding or creating the finances needed in the classroom ! The 2011 Nonprofit Software Development Summit is being held on Novemeber 16th, 17th, and 18th in Oakland. Luckily, they also know how to get the grants and launch the fundraising campaigns schools and teachers need.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Free Manuals for Refurbishing Computers

Tech Soup

They were Pat Furr of Computers for Classrooms (CFC) and Bruce Buckelew of Oakland Technology Exchange West (OTX West). Both started refurbishing computers around the same time as I did in the early 90's but kept going and now each supplies well over 5,000 computers per year to schools, nonprofits, and low-income people.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states. School and Job Preparedness. iStudiez Pro.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

For instance, the Drivers Cooperative in New York started in an educational classroom among Uber and Lyft drivers, after workers became tired of paying high commission fees to these platform companies while also being required to pay for their own job expenses such as insurance and repairs.

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Celebrate National Volunteer Week April 27-May 3

Have Fun - Do Good

I volunteered in the classroom for Streetside Stories before I worked for them. It makes me sad that the Oakland public libraries are so under-funded. Some of my favorite things I've done have been as a volunteer. Before I started working for myself, I used to volunteer in a community garden for People's Grocery. Howabout you?