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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The inspiration for this program came from a random act of kindness at a Trader Joe’s last year that leveraged $24,000 donation to a local food bank. My random act of kindness was to support women in San Jose by supporting women in Kenya. In addition, Yahoo is amplifying good deeds by the users. Your turn.

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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. After receiving an MBA and CPA from San Jose State in 1995, and working for Hewlett-Packard and several tech startups, Viji received an unexpected diagnosis from her doctor.

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost , a local advertising platform funded by Spark Capital and Google Ventures. Roughly 1,200 miles away in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is pushing for restrictions that will shutter many of the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries. city), restaurants and nightlife.

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Route 66 Hits the News (and the road!)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Great article today in the San Jose Mercury News. We really appreciate our local partner, C.A.R., Palo Alto company's innovative software uses photos to teach the developmentally disabled. in testing Route 66 and giving us lots of great feedback. Dave Severns and his family's foundation has been our lead funder for Route 66.

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Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Comes to London!

Amy Sample Ward

I’m so excited to see a Mobile Tech 4 Change event coming to London - but super disappointed I can’t be here to participate (I’ll be at N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference in San Jose). If you are interested in mobile technology and its application for social change projects, this is definitely an event to check out.

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Now approved in LA, Abodu’s backyard homes can now go from contract to completion in as little as 30 days

TechCrunch

Abodu began installing homes through a pre-approval process back in 2019, when the city of San Jose created a program that allowed developers of alternative dwelling units to submit plans for pre-approval to cut the time for homeowners. That approval process means that ADU developers like Abodu can be permitted in one hour.

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Bookshare.org and Lobster

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My tradition is to make smoked lobster for my wife, Virginia, and the local newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, was kind enough to print this fact in an article titled: What notable business leaders are doing for Mom. What does this have to do with lobster? Not much, other than the fact that tomorrow is Mother's Day.

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