Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I’m really psyched about the Nonprofit Development Summit , happening here, in my (current) fair city, Oakland (I love it that I don’t have to travel so much anymore.) Vote for them , especially the one I’m helping out with (David Geilhufe is the spearhead) on open source CRM.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2013

Here on the TechSoup blog you have heard from an accidental hacker at a hackathon , our Senior Director of Global Data Services formerly from the Ford Foundation , and also our data digests from our colleague at GuideStar International on the power of data. Check out the Netsquared blog for a detailed write-up.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Peter Campbell, Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice in Oakland, reviewed several drafts and added his insights. Peter Campbell, Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice in Oakland, reviewed several drafts and added his insights. I’ve organized these tips around the traits Ms. Kaufman identified.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 24, 2006

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the Future program is hosting a Solution Salon Thursday, May 18th from 6-8 PM at the James Irvine Conference Center (353 Frank Ogawa Plaza, near 14th and Broadway in Oakland). solution salon oakland

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Beyond the cities where Adobu’s ADUs have received pre-approval, the company has built across California in cities ranging from, Palo Alto, Millbrae, Orange County, LA and Oakland. Cutler wrote the book (or the equivalent of a book) on the housing crisis and its impact on the Bay Area and California broadly.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

California, New Hampshire, and Oregon all ban the use of the technology in police body cameras , and Oakland and San Francisco have banned its use by city agencies. Boston’s city council voted Wednesday to ban the tech with a veto-proof majority. The technology is also facing new legal challenges. It should be abolished.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Oakland-based Eclipse Foods doesn’t want its sustainable, plant-based dairy products to be just another substitute; they want it to be so similar to conventional dairy in taste, texture and functionality that you won’t be able to tell the difference. Bowman, CTO, is a James Beard–nominated chef and has a food science background.

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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 Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P. listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen.

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MAY 21, 2006

Last Thursday I went to hear Majora Carter from Sustainable South Bronx , Paul Hawken , author of Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce , Van Jones from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , Geralina Fortier from People's Grocery , and Bruce Cox of the Alliance for West Oakland Development speak at the first Solutions Salon.

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MAY 1, 2006

It's an interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery , a West Oakland, community-based food justice organization. I've posted my fourth Big Vision podcast. You can also check out Brahm's blog at [link] Enjoy!

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

This is a topic of particular fascination for me as someone who has worked as an external consultant/provocateur/risk-encourager and is now in the director's seat for the first time. She was told from day one that her director would be disappointed in her if she "didn't fall flat on her face." The outcome is very different.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 15, 2006

Unfortunately, I didn't get to interview this week's Solutionary Woman, Majora Carter, but I did get to hear her speak last May at a Solutions Salon put on by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland. And she was incredible.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Dr. Francis Wedin, Managing Director of Vulcan, said in a statement that “DuPont’s diverse set of products, which can be manufactured at scale, are likely to be well-suited to sustainably extract the lithium from the brine.”

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Oakland, California-based Marqeta, which went public in 2021 and is today valued at nearly $3.7 Other backers include CRV, Restive Ventures (formerly Financial Venture Studio), Dash Fund, Plug & Play and a group of angel investors. The company at the time had also announced a $300 million credit facility.

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MARCH 1, 2007

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 Lappe, 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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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2022

This assessment will help you and the grantee identify skills gaps on the Board of Directors and establish a plan for any training that may need to be conducted. For example, when conducting a site visit in Oakland, CA, a private foundation let us know that one area of concern they had with this particular grantee was late reporting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

The most recent episode featured Eva Mendes, and Liz Evans, the Executive Director and Founder of the Portland Hotel Society in Vancouver. For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6% of Oakland residents are living in poverty.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Last week fifty people squeezed into the Marcus Bookstore in Oakland to hear young women share their stories, their rants, and their issues from a new collection of women's writing, We Got Issues! Buying fair trade coffee and family farm-raised food is casting my vote. One of the ways we find them is when we step on them and they blow up.

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APRIL 12, 2007

Three women journalists and environmental activists will host the series: Majora Carter, Founder and Director of Sustainable South Bronx , Simran Sethi, anchor for TreeHugger TV , and Allison Stewart, daytime anchor for MSNBC and host of "The Most". She was amazing. You can watch an awesome talk she gave at the TED Conference here.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Darius currently serves on the Board of Directors of the McCullum Youth Court in Oakland, CA, and on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Responsible Citizenship in Washington, DC. While in Florida, Darius created Books All Around, Inc. , a nonprofit organization that promotes youth literacy. ordinary heroes book

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Julie Elmore, library director, Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library (Indiana). The Director's Perspective. Julie Elmore is the library director of the Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library in Indiana and its only full-time employee. Image 2: Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library.

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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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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. Listen Read Eric Fenster & Ari Derfel, Co-owners, Back to Earth Listen Read Brahm Ahmadi, Executive Director, People's Grocery Listen Read Mei-ying Ho (now Williams), Co-Director of SOUL.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Wakefield had just exited two startups he’d helped to co-launch, including Mailgun (which was acquired by Rackspace in 2012), while Kontsevoy — a fellow Mailgun co-founder — was coming off a tenure as director of product at Rackspace. ”

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APRIL 29, 2021

Executive Director. Previously served as deputy director of the U.S. National Community Relations and Development Director & National Spokesperson. Prior to his current role, he served as executive director and chief operating officer for The Salvation Army National Capital region in Washington, D.C. Anna Rathmann.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

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. LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Trans*H4ck is based in San Francisco, but has held events in Boston, Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, and more. Watch Allyson Robinson, vice president and director, talk about the program on Comcast Newsmakers: (Please visit the site to view this video). LGBT MD was showcased at the most recent Caravan Studios Social Good Apps Breakfast.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Magic mushrooms are decriminalized in my hometown of Oakland, California , and a bunch of other cities and states are considering legalizing various psychedelics, including LSD, mushrooms, peyote, ayahuasca and many others.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

New York City and Oakland, California. The big spike in online revenue since 2020 stabilized,” said Will Valverde, lead writer of Benchmarks and senior creative director at M+R. Those are some of the statistics on the new report from agency M+R, with operations in Washington, D.C.,

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). org co-founder Jon Warnow, who is their web director, which is as close as anyone gets to being an IT person at the organization. Fully eight staff members co-founded the organization, but the most well known 350.org

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Michael Enos, TechSoup's senior director for community and platform, sees a trend developing where nonprofits are leveraging existing technology platforms to "source to excess." He recommends the Oakland-based charity Digital Detox and perhaps a stay at Campgrounded in the California redwoods. Become a digital refugee.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

David is Senior Director at NetSuite.org , Netsuite’s corporate foundation. Early in his nonprofit career, David became the founding director of the Eastmont Computing Center in East Oakland (now called the David Glover Education and Technology Center ). David is now Senior Director at NetSuite.org.

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JUNE 21, 2006

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. My name is Britt Bravo, and in today's show I will be talking with the co-founder and executive director of People's Grocery, Brahm Ahmadi. It's not just for West Oakland; it's for young people throughout the Bay Area.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Kellogg Foundation angel Kyodo williams, Director, Seeds of Justice Fund What kind of projects is the Fund supporting and how are they selected? Groups like Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice located in Oakland, California, working on the front lines of the reproductive justice movement. Who are the founding members?

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