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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

And some may love the tech part of their jobs, but it will remain a small, incidental (accidental?) Peter Campbell, Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice in Oakland, reviewed several drafts and added his insights. I always tell people that my job is 50% knowledge and skill, and 50% knowing the people I work for.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov.

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JUNE 4, 2014

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a civil rights and restorative justice organization for prisoners and for Oakland young adults. They also carry on the work of visionary founder and board member, Van Jones, especially in the area of developing green jobs training programs for low-income youth.

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MAY 21, 2006

Last Thursday I went to hear Majora Carter from Sustainable South Bronx , Paul Hawken , author of Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce , Van Jones from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , Geralina Fortier from People's Grocery , and Bruce Cox of the Alliance for West Oakland Development speak at the first Solutions Salon.

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JUNE 30, 2022

It’s true that corporate training programs tend to be a mixed bag, with only 25% of respondents to a McKinsey survey saying that their company’s training improved their job performance. According to another survey , 75% of managers were dissatisfied with their company’s learning and development function in 2019. ”

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MARCH 9, 2009

According to this AP article , and this New York Times article, Van Jones will be a green jobs adviser for the Obama administration. Jones is the author of The Green Collar Economy and Founder of the Oakland-based, Green for All. He's an inspiring speaker: green jobs economy Van Jones Obama

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

That's 5 years work at a full-time job! Mozilla Service Week kicks off today and runs through September 21st. To date, more than 10,000 volunteer hours have been promised. But there's no reason we can't give a little more. Our partner OneWebDay also has a variety of service events taking place on and around Sept.

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JANUARY 25, 2007

Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. We participate in the City of Oakland's Maintain-a-Drain program, and do our part daily to remove litter from the street in our neighborhood. Get help from an agency like the Oakland Business Development Corporation (OBDC).

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MARCH 2, 2022

If you need a ride to the airport, wish to order a pizza, plan a vacation, or search for a job, there is a good chance that you will use an app to get it. This contractor status makes it easy for companies to exploit platform workers by forcing them to pay high premiums for affiliation with the platform or even refusing to pay them for jobs.

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APRIL 27, 2022

It was my first week on the job, and I received an email from a client saying ‘I think you shorted us $90 million,’” he recalls. “I While working as the head of treasury at Braintree, Boris de Souza once discovered a $90 million payment that went “missing” for over two weeks because of poor payments infrastructure. “It

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MAY 6, 2022

Since the pandemic began, the percentage of American workers who have quit their jobs has reached a 20-year high. The state of the job market is more competitive than I’ve ever seen it,” said Evans, who has two decades of experience overseeing recruiting and team-building at fast-growing companies including Slack, Facebook and Google.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Saw him speak in 2007: Obama in Oakland. • It has a newsroom and a blog, and information about their agenda, how to apply for jobs, and how to be of service. Listed Dreams of My Father as one of my Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006. • And saw him speak again in 2008 at the September 11 Presidential Forum on Service.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

School and Job Preparedness. As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states.

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MAY 31, 2011

I was joined by Lori Fogarty (ED of the Oakland Museum of California), Adam Lerner (ED and Chief Animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver), and Beck Tench (Director for Innovation and Digital Engagement at the Museum of Life and Science). If Lori is too gentle, her staff might not go far enough out of their comfort zones.

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APRIL 8, 2010

We ate at Six Feet Under , a delightful seafood restaurant overlooking the famous Oakland Cemetery. TechSoup's Carlos Bergfeld was there too, as well as TechSoup forum host Robert Weiner. The discussion wandered from writing to advocacy to curating to poetry to copyright.

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MAY 31, 2022

Despite economic turmoil in the tech world, an Oakland-based startup shows that moonshots are still getting funded. One of Felt’s team members — Mamata Akella — is even an in-house cartographer — a job title you don’t too often see as part of the early-stage startup ranks. Since its seed round, a $4.5

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MAY 4, 2021

So in 2018, Reig quit his job, raised $1.1 Miami, Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco. million from 57 people, and launched a small pilot program involving 68 mopeds in Brooklyn. In May 2019, he raised $4 million in VC funding, which helped him expand to 1,000 electric mopeds across Brooklyn and Queens. That’s a lot.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Green for All and Van Jones are both based in Oakland, CA (where I live) so I've been following their work for awhile. Full disclosure: I am a contractor for Green for All, but I would have posted about Van's book anyway (: green economy Van Jones jobs employment Green for All's goal is to sell 5,000 copies by October 8th.

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JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Obviously not all jobs can be done effectively in a remote work framework.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Please note that since the interviews take place over two years, some people's work has changed and they may have new job titles, or may be working somewhere else now. Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. I've listed all of the interviews below with links to the podcast and the transcript.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They have new job titles, work someplace else, and in some cases, have new names! I've also listed all of the interviewees with photos and links below. Please note that because the conversations take place over five years, some people's work and lives have changed. 2011 Aneesha Raghunathan, Owner, Hope Line Fashions Coming soon!

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

They have new job titles, work someplace else, and in some cases, have new names! , or by writing a review to encourage folks to check it out. I'd *really* appreciate it. Please note that because the conversations take place over six years, some people's work and lives have changed. Happy listening!

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JUNE 21, 2015

Trans*H4ck is based in San Francisco, but has held events in Boston, Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, and more. They can also search for employment or job opportunities and learn about using social media. The organization is currently fundraising to build an online hackathon and social app collaboration center. Also known as LOL!,

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JULY 22, 2014

Next To Silicon Valley, Nonprofits Draw Youth Of Color Into Tech - capradio.org : To counter that, a growing number of nonprofits are popping up in Oakland to help young blacks and Latinos break into the industry. Her job is to fix websites for clients. "I''m

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JUNE 9, 2022

If Lunchbox is clever, they’d note that I submitted my address and would feed that back to Clean Juice to tell them that perhaps there’s interest in an outlet in Oakland, California. 5 takeaways from Toast’s S-1 filing.

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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. If we can begin to build that at a local base, we can begin to create jobs that are associated with that new structure that we create. And also, again, to create jobs in the process.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Leo* stepped out of his house in Oakland recently to start his day as a backup driver for Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Alphabet, and couldn’t believe what he saw. Their jobs are important — but can also be boring and exhausting. ‘The sky looked like Tang, yet they still got us setting up cars that are covered in ash.’

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The post-PC era was announced in March 2011 by the late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, during the launch of the iPad2. 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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OCTOBER 20, 2020

In my testing in Oakland and San Francisco on both T-Mobile and Verizon, I found myself with an LTE signal as often as I did 5G — if not more. In general, the iPhone 12 does a better job on fine detail in regular lighting conditions. Your experience with 5G will vary widely depending on your location, carrier, and data plan.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Reliatech is a nonprofit social enterprise that provides on-the-job training to low-income people by having them provide IT tech support to individuals, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses in the San Francisco Bay area. It is a social venture of the Oakland-based employment training nonprofit Stride Center. Administration.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

They may have new job titles, or be working somewhere new now. Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland. I've listed all of the interviews below with links to the audio and the transcripts. Please note that because the interviews take place over three years, some people's work has changed.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Here are a few solutions I've seen and options we could consider: The Denver Art Museum does a terrific job indicating where there are family activities in galleries with a consistent visual look and feel that is repeated throughout the museum. How will we deal with this? all over the place.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

They may have new job titles, be working somewhere else, and in some cases, have new names! Below are links to conversations with 48 big visionaries who I've interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast over the last four years. Please note that because the interviews take place over four years, some people's work and lives may have changed.

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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.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

The late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, famously announced the post-PC era in March 2011 during the launch of the iPad 2. Jobs was as usual quite prescient. bring your own device) movement has been a staple topic in the IT press, and it is commonplace for us to use our own mobile phones and tablets for work related activities.

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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 ). David took a leave from his job and jumped in to organize a large volunteer effort called the Katrina PeopleFinder Project. Here is David’s story.

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MAY 13, 2015

He currently lives in Oakland, California with his girlfriend and three cats. _. Obviously any form that you’re embedding to your website should match the site’s aesthetics—but you should pay the same attention to standalone forms too (the ones with links you share on social media, email and job postings).

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