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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

Tech Soup

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a civil rights and restorative justice organization for prisoners and for Oakland young adults. GLIDE is a faith-based homeless services program in San Francisco that supplies hot meals, violence prevention, and education services in one of worst neighborhoods.

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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

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Trans*H4ck is based in San Francisco, but has held events in Boston, Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, and more. The Sage Centers offer older adults a safe and comfortable space to learn tech basics and take classes to expand on their skills. LGBT MD was showcased at the most recent Caravan Studios Social Good Apps Breakfast.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

We developed negotiation training to develop the capacity of the women to be able to ask for better working conditions, better wages, which is something that the women said they that had no understanding of, no access to those levels of skills. Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

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By organizing mission trips, launching residential care programs, and hosting educational programs in developing communities, Mustard Seed strives to equip individuals with the skills they need to be self-sustaining, healthy, and happy. The Mustard Seed website highlights their efforts by placing a prominent focus on their mission.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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He was actually dealing with those leaders, helping them build skills, helping them be inspired, and he was their coordinator. He takes them through both that process of skills building, of how to run a group and build other leaders, and also a spiritual maturity process. He was a very big influence. Their small group.

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

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You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." 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. We have four initiatives.

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