Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. is an organization based out of Oakland, California. of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning global. Youth Radio's mission is to connect Oakland-based young people with pro developers and entrepreneurs to.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

TechSoup Global and NetSquared attended hackathons across the country—from Hawaii to Vermont—that tackled local, statewide, and national civic issues. For example, Code for Oakland hosted an event called ReWrite Oakland, which focused how to make the Oakland city government website more accessible and easier to use.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2014

TechSoup Global and Tech Impact are teaming up to do a series of free one-day events for charities and libraries in September called Office 365 Roadshows. Thursday, September 18 th in Oakland. We'll also report back after the Oakland event to share what we learned. Office 365 Roadshows Coming to America. Register here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jeffrey Bryan, a veterinary oncologist Emily Jacobi, Digital Democracy Jenny Ramo, New Mexico Appleseed Kavita Ramdas, formerly of Global Fund for Women ( I interviewed Kavita in April 2008 ) Kenya Masala, Source Consulting Group, (he's the musician behind the Big Vision Podcast's intro and outro music).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a civil rights and restorative justice organization for prisoners and for Oakland young adults. The program also helps everyone build credit scores.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Organized by Insafe , and co-founded by the European Union, Safer Internet Day is a global campaign that encourages responsible use of online technologies and services. Join the global conversation by: Sharing a safety tip directly on Microsoft's Safer Online site. Oakland, CA. Joining the Safer Internet Day Twitter party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

or Code for Oakland ). Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina). meets LinkedIn for students. The ReStart Challenges.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

If you're in the Bay Area November 18-20, come check out Aspiration's 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit in Oakland. This is the third time Aspiration has hosted this event, and by the look of the session list , there will be no shortage of great discussions. The conference isn't only for programmers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Happy listening!

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2011

Yesterday in Oakland, California I had the privilege of speaking at a conference. TechSoup Global has its roots in supporting social benefit organizations and understands the power of organizing data into meaningful information, and we continue to provide resources in that regards as part of our DNA and mission. Community Service.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2014

TechSoup Global and Tech Impact are teaming up to do a series of free one-day events for charities and libraries in September called Office 365 Roadshows. Thursday, September 18 th in Oakland. Here's a chance to find out what Office 365 is, how it can benefit your nonprofit, and what it takes to implement it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone. Youth Radio's Mobile App Lab connects Oakland, CA-based youth with professional app developers and entrepreneurs to propose, develop, and market apps that serve community needs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen. 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.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

We ate at Six Feet Under , a delightful seafood restaurant overlooking the famous Oakland Cemetery. NGOs understand the issues in troubled areas as well as reporters do; we have the opportunity to market our sector as a trusted, impartial source for global reporting.

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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 ). Thousands of global NGOs are using CiviCRM, and it now has a worldwide community of over 15,000 techies working on software engineering, testing, and documentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

By profiling individuals and organizations who enact various visions of utopia, Oakland's Britt Bravo expresses her own hope for a better world. Through Big Vision , she broadcasts interviews with many of the East Bay's most successful activists for social change.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization is one of the most prominent front -line, direct-action environmental nonprofits addressing the problem of global climate change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

ESRI makes their global coverage basemaps available for free to layer beneath your own map. Perhaps the single most useful feature for nonprofits is a great time saver and quality booster called ArcGIS Online. In the past, every organization had to maintain their own detailed basemaps and aerial photography for map context.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

GI-NET's blog Global Fund for Women Mission: "The Global Fund for women promotes women's economic security, health, education and leadership." Global Fund for Women's blog Maine Coon Adoptions They rescued and helped us adopt our Maine Coon cat, Dora! People's Grocery blog, Brahm's Blog. Mission: "Spot.Us

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

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. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2007

Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Listen Read Abby Rosenheck (now Jaramillo), Founder and Executive Director, Urban Sprouts Listen Read Ilyse Hogue, Global Finance Campaign Director, Rainforest Action Network. Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland. (Mei-ying is now the Operations Director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network).

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. It's important to give back to your local and global community, but it is also important to "give back" to your friends and family. When she opened the tiny little box, glued inside the lid was a piece of paper that unfolded, like a fortune cookie fortune. It said, "A trip to the zoo!"

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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. The Select Committee held a special hearing, entitled: "Economic Impacts of Global Warming: Green Collar Jobs."

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

We hosted community discussions in Oakland, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, and Portland. I knew that if we could understand the connections and visualize the breadth of global efforts on behalf of social and environmental justice, we would recognize the largest movement the world has ever seen. So we asked.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global. She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries. The presentation also has additional resources to foster a culture of innovation. Marnie is watching the field of complex data.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago.

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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. 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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DECEMBER 12, 2006

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. We're choosing a one half-square mile region of Oakland. We're targeting the city of Oakland because it's a great city.

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JUNE 21, 2006

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. It's not just for West Oakland; it's for young people throughout the Bay Area. 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.

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APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.

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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. We also here at SOUL sell manuals.

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