Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2007

Over the past month, many of you have posted comments or sent me emails about my interview with Van Jones, the President and Co-founder of Oakland's Ella Baker Center , that I posted here, and on the Big Vision Podcast. We'll still force-feed you with GMOs. .-- Van Jones Wherever he goes, Van Jones inspires. This guy is a genius.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Feeding America. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Foundation’s ability to provide 16 million meals to children and families in the Oakland area in 2020 . Ami McReynolds. Chief Equity and Programs Officer. Chris Helfrich. Foundation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

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 ). Finally, there is always another phase -- CRM requires constant care, feeding, reevaluation' and tweaking." Here is David’s story.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Social media is particularly flooded on #GivingTuesday, with Twitter and Facebook feeds full of “Donate Now” buttons and other call-to-action attempts. Current donors will notice the change, and potential donors might also since it’s something new on their feeds and inboxes.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day. Even better, they have a real-time Facebook feed widget on every page. Their organization’s mission is to nourish the most in-need members of the community through the best medicine there is — healthy food!

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

I remember being there at that conference, we registered as a church (in my personal life I am an assistant minister at a place here in Oakland), and I was expecting to be very uncomfortable there, but I was very comfortable in that community. He had a conference about how to build a purpose-driven church. The small group. Their small group.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

Tech solutions combined with forward-thinking, inspired, and innovative community leaders like Gita Rampersad, vice president of healthcare partnerships and nutrition at Feeding America, and Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, superintendent of Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), offer a model for how to tackle complex issues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. We say, one way to do that is to kind of focus on Oakland, and make sure that there are people who are being trained, who are peered, to be a part of this new green economy right here in Oakland.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. This breast pump represented to her the one thing that she could do to help her babies stay strong and live as long as possible, feed them breast milk. I'd been in the hospital five times in three months, or something like that. My marriage was under a lot of stress because of all of this.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

The Movement Strategy Center is a nonprofit organization in Oakland, CA that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement. And I work at night, and I work on the weekends,and I feed Zach while I'm checking my email. He looks around for me, and gets excited for me to come.

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