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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

The weekend event was organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , Code for America , Random Hacks of Kindness , and many other organizations and companies. Another project was creating an easily accessible map of Hawaii's farmer's markets. ReWrite Oakland. Census Bureau and the Peace Corps.

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Bay Localize & Green Roofs: An Interview with Ingrid Severson

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Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. This is in response to global warming and peak oil. It is basically a piece of policy that argues and researches how to bring the Bay Area into localization. It's basically a neighborhood assessment.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

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In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day. Working together to create global infrastructures for support, the Network promotes the development of more resilient markets and sustainable economic growth for the world’s poor. Nonprofit Website Overview.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

Tech Soup

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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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. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. My path was really environmental work, environmental policy work.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

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He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. Oakland, among other places, sued, got a four-point-something million dollar settlement.

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