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AUGUST 29, 2010

It was shocking and deplorable, really terrible, to learn that and know that it's not at the forefront of a lot of people's thinking when they think about local food or regional food. I feel like the bar's been raised so high in the country around awareness of eating local foods, and policy is definitely the next step. I do book.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt! Listen Read 2007 Reem Rahim, Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Numi Tea Listen Read Jodie van Horn, Campaigner for Rainforest Action Network's Freedom From Oil campaign, and Coordinator for Plug-In Bay Area Listen Read Priya Haji, CEO and Co-founder, World of Good.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Marisa Handler, Author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

211 demand is growing 10 percent year over year, according to the founders of Reach , a text-answering app for the national health and human services helpline. Sergio Medina, an attendee from the nonprofit Covenant House in Oakland, California said that events like these are a great way to get connected to the technology community.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. org is already doing that. An example is 350 Mexico.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Listen Read Martin Fisher, Co-founder and CEO, KickStart Listen Read ?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland. Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

I'm giving a free talk at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the evening of the 22nd, and then a free workshop on the 23rd at the National Postal Museum on designing better mechanisms for visitor feedback and response. April 29 - I'm heading to the Oakland Museum for the preview of its reopening. Both are open to the public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 We'll touch on academic research, business implementation, and grassroots organizing strategy. Are you eating well?

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JULY 31, 2009

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. Obviously, local civic journalism is incredibly important to me.

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MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. Jodie Van Horn: Plug-In Bay Area is a national grassroots effort to try to commercialize plug-in hybrid vehicles.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

We love these map layers for local work, but for nonprofits working across nations these are incredible time savers. Also check out the local NNIP partners in 34 cities across the USA; all have some form of free web mapping system available. Now your simple maps can look very professional with no extra cost or effort.

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JULY 13, 2008

It's interesting, a man from Oakland is doing a documentary on street recyclers, the people who go around and pick up recycling from all of our bins, and that's how they make their living. [laughs] I love that that is one of the most popular questions. And, "Why did you do it?" Those are basically the top four.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Local Initiatives Support Corporation ( LISC ) is a national economic development nonprofit that equips struggling and low-income communities with capital, strategy, and know-how so they can become places where people can thrive. How LISC Uses Silk. I spoke to George Koster at San Francisco Bay Area LISC.

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JUNE 9, 2015

Local Initiatives Support Corporation ( LISC ) is a national economic development nonprofit that equips struggling and low-income communities with capital, strategy, and know-how so they can become places where people can thrive. How LISC Uses Silk. I spoke to George Koster at San Francisco Bay Area LISC.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. So, if you see Van speak, our goal is to have a place that you can plug in, a local leader who says, "Come to my house." For folks who don't know, what is The Engage Network?

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

But unions have had difficulty organizing platform economy employees because of their classification as independent contractors, which excludes them from protections under the National Labor Relations Act. Connections between labor unions and industries especially impacted by the platform economy have helped cooperatives come into being.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

National Partnership for Women & Families. In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day. These include: Local events calendar. Top Nonprofit Website: National Partnership for Women and Families. Mustard Seed Communities. Project Open Hand.

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JUNE 30, 2007

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. So we started in our small apartment in Oakland, it was about 750 square feet.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

The Movement Strategy Center is a nonprofit organization in Oakland, CA that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement. The Center helps to build local, regional, and national networks of young activists, across interests, constituencies and geographies.

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APRIL 25, 2007

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. We say, one way to do that is to kind of focus on Oakland, and make sure that there are people who are being trained, who are peered, to be a part of this new green economy right here in Oakland.

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