Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We just recently moved to downtown Oakland, and we talk about ourselves as a school to build a movement. And in terms of how I got involved with SOUL, I was actually teaching for a very brief period in the Oakland middle schools. So I’m only 26.

San Francisco

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. Our youth are working creatively to create other ways of communicating those messages in terms of workshops and presentations that are fun, engaging, and cool, and that's a very important aspect.

Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. Then, I moved into the world of teaching. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland. You can always buy our publications, read them and disseminate them.

Resource

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. I remember having to walk into his house and saying, "You know, dude, I'm going to teach you how to paint a mural. He was 15.

Artist

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Jose sits on various economic development boards: the Oakland Workforce Investment Board, the Bay Area Business Advisory Board of Directors for the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, and the OneCalifornia Bank Advisory Board.

Oakland

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

One of the things for me, in going to protests and demonstrations about different issues, is that I felt that the protests were really boring, dry and preachy, not fun and compelling. And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. That's great.

Arts

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JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community. It might be teaching.

Arts

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

And after a number of very inspiring moments that we shared together, mostly in the wilderness, around teaching people, and building community in small groups of people at a time, we decided, you know what, let's make this happen. We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods.

Podcast

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. I teach that to my clients, but you know how we are, the things we teach we don't practice a lot. Why do you teach it this way?" 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.

Challenge

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

The summer before my last year in college, I participated in a summer program in Philadelphia that was designed to teach young people organizing skills around poverty and homelessness issues. SOUL is located here in the Bay area, in Oakland. It was the first experience that I had with social movement organizing. That's one.

Podcast

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland. . Another one, more significant, might be saying something to a loved one that you regret because you are afraid of abandonment, or not letting a child do something fun for fear that they might get hurt. . . So the conclusion, brothers and sisters is this.

Mind

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

I gave this sermon this morning at First Congregational Church of Oakland. . Another one, more significant, might be saying something to a loved one that you regret because you are afraid of abandonment, or not letting a child do something fun for fear that they might get hurt. . . So the conclusion, brothers and sisters is this.

Mind