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OCTOBER 9, 2006

I've been to the Green Festival in San Francisco for the past four years and each year I look forward to it. The Green Festival is October 14-15 in Washington DC , November 10-12 in San Francisco , and April 21-22, 2007 in Chicago. green women festival

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov.

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JULY 9, 2012

My last full-time, Monday-through-Friday job was as an outreach director for a small international development organization in San Francisco. Finally, if they need to spend $50 for a premium Tumbler design or $25 a year for Flickr Pro, they have the green light to do so.

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JUNE 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft.

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MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. The first one was started in 1991 by a San Francisco educator, Dan Sudran, in his garage. I knew I could learn a lot from it. It''s powerful.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

2012 Stacey Edgar, Founder, Global Girlfriend listen 2011 Gabriela Masala, Founder, One Love Alliance listen Robert Wolfe, Co-Founder, Crowdrise listen Aneesha Raghunathan, Founder, Hope Line Fashions listen Rachel Cohen, Founder and Executive Director, Hand2Paw listen Kathy LeMay, Founder, Raising Change.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen. Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Maryn Winn, the cofounder and executive director of the Shoreline Solar Project, says: "I can't imagine life without TechSoup."

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Now she is the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org Listen Read Steve Williams, Co-founder and Executive Director of POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) Listen Read Anna Lappé, co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and co-founder of the Small Planet Fund. Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

2006 Alli Chagi-Starr, Co-Founder, Art in Action / Art & Media Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights’ Reclaim the Future Program. Alli is now the Business Partners & Events Manager at Green For All and Art in Action Youth Leadership Program). Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

With his bright green hair, crystal blue skin and environmentally-focused attitude, Captain Planet was the ultimate do-gooder. More common is when one board of directors votes to dissolve and transfer its assets to another organization. In the early ‘90s, a new superhero burst onto the scene. Come Together.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P. If you have suggestions for people for me to interview for future shows, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com, or leave a comment below.

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APRIL 17, 2009

While re-reading Echoing Green's book, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , I've been thinking about one of its main ideas--that people have moments of obligation. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2012

To quote Annaliese Hoeling, NTEN’s publications director: A couple of the biggest take-aways for us were that 91 percent of nonprofits taking our survey reported using at least one cloud software solution?. If you’re coming to the upcoming NTEN NTC 2012 conference in San Francisco next month, I hope to see you there!

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AUGUST 9, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. I'm a literary agent in San Francisco, with the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents , and we've been in business a long time here in San Francisco. Britt: How are you making the event green?

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MAY 4, 2010

When I sat down to talk with the co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond, in early March, they had literally just returned from the West African Woman and Water Training in Ghana. We will be hosting our second-annual fundraising gala, called Weaving the Worlds , in the Presidio of San Francisco on May 26th.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The organization and challenge: After years of traditional fund-raising events, Catholic Charities CYO (CC) in San Francisco decided its approach was getting stale and that it needed to broaden its audience to include opportunities for young people. Fundraising Events. www.convio.com. Adrienne D. Adrienne holds a B.S.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

On August 29, 2011 some of us from TechSoup attended NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit in San Francisco. The cloud security technical session presenter was Donny Shimamoto, who is the founder and managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. An easy example is green technology.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

Yesterday I went to the San Francisco session of the second annual Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp. The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. He also listed the following Green Economy Trends that are also available here : 1.

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OCTOBER 29, 2007

Also in the running and campaigning hard are (in alphabetical order) Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation; Citizens for Global Solutions, Faithful Security; Genocide Intervention Network; Global Green USA; National Religious Campaign Against Torture; and Women’s Action for New Directions. What’s in your peace platform?

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

At this month's packed Online Community Meetup (also referred to as #OCTribe), Jen Burton , director of Community and Support at Causes.com , spoke about Facebook's largest fundraising platform and its role in supporting nonprofits. " "Here's a note from the director." Joe Green is other co-founder and CEO.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

To help us learn more about how to apply Lean Start Up ideas to nonprofit causes and organizations, Meg Rulli is the Social Media Director for Lean Impact and her colleagues will be contributing a regular blog post covering different aspects of the Lean Impact practices. Patrice Martin, IDEO.org (Co-Lead & Creative Director).

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2015

Rory Green is a guest blogger for Nonprofit Hub. Her day job is connecting donors with opportunities to make a difference, as the Associate Director, Advancement for the Faculty of Applied Science at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia Canada. It’s a short, two hour flight from San Francisco and the Silicon Valley.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The more successful you are, the more you have to give back." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy.

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JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America. Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development.

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JUNE 30, 2007

The speakers were Alli Chagi-Starr, who is the Co-Founder of Art in Action ; Ilyse Hogue, the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org ; Melinda Kramer, the Founder and Director of Women's Earth Alliance ; and Reem Rahim, the Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing for Numi Tea. I moved to San Francisco.

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JUNE 29, 2006

We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. So that's when I started working here more formally, and then this last fall I ended up coming to Ella Baker Center full time as the Art and Media Director of Reclaim the Future.

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