Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I’m really psyched about the Nonprofit Development Summit , happening here, in my (current) fair city, Oakland (I love it that I don’t have to travel so much anymore.) Vote for them , especially the one I’m helping out with (David Geilhufe is the spearhead) on open source CRM. Go figure. It might be interesting. {

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Have Fun - Do Good

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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe it's a live music concert, or a museum visit, or a play. Sometimes these innovations are woven into the institutional core programming, as at the redesigned, highly interactive Oakland Museum of California. For myself personally, this gulf rears its head every time I go to a live music concert. You have a great time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2006

I was searching through the iTunes Music Store's iMix section for new running music and thought I'd add my own iMix, so here is my 30 minute Have Fun * Do Good mix. If you go to the iTunes Music Store's iMix section and search by "iMix name" for "Have Fun * Do Good Mix" it should come up and you can hear bits of the songs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 29, 2006

I read this article about gospel aerobics in the Oakland Tribune after Christmas and thought it was great. During a gospel aerobics class, the instructor plays gospel music (which I love), and makes connections for the women between their spiritual and physical health.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. My brother and I started Numi about seven years ago, from here in Oakland, California, and we started in my small apartment up the street, near Piedmont Avenue. Britt: Oakland needs more businesses like Numi.

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People Profit Interview Oakland 43

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Wendy has a very specific set of ground rules about how someone is supposed to approach the Love Tapes: first, by watching others to get the feel for it, then, recording their own (to background music of their choice), then, deciding whether to include it in the total collection, and finally, viewing their own tape as part of that collection.

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Voice Museum Vietnam Music 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Michael Jackson had just died, and I was at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where they hastily erected an exhibit of the jacket and glove he wore in the Thriller video. People lining the street on the Tuesday afternoon when the boards arrived from the Port of Oakland, cheering as the crates came off the truck.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Oakland has changed its laws in the last few years where you have to pay per transfer.

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People Podcast Oakland Local 43

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California. You can view and download all the slides here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

You can imagine how excited I was to find out about Fat Bottom Bakery , a vegan bakery in Oakland, CA (where I live) that makes all kind of desserts, including cupcakes! You can also listen to it on the little player below, on the Big Vision Podcast website , or on the iTunes Music Store.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

What came to Eric was this vision of this beautiful place that had an organic restaurant in it, and there was a community center there, and there was a garden there, and people from the community were getting together and they were eating, and sharing, and learning, and playing music, and talking, and engaging in conscious, healthful living.

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Podcast Interview Awareness Cancer 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

SOUL is located here in the Bay area, in Oakland. If you like the music, it is from Kenya Masala's "Mango Delight" and you can learn more about Kenya's work and his music by going to sourceconsultinggroup.com. That's one. You can also find transcripts of past interviews on that blog as well.

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Podcast San Francisco South Africa Homeless 40

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. Lately we have had people do video blogging and put shorts up, or a couple people have written songs, and sent them to me to put into the community music player. I'd been in the hospital five times in three months, or something like that. Her name is Mbali Creazzo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Art in Action provides a supportive, positive place for young leaders to cultivate leadership through dance, theater, music, spoken word/poetry, painting, storytelling, and media arts." By bringing people together through music and art it is our goal to highlight the similarities and celebrate the diversity of all of the world’s inhabitants."

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

There you can find projects to fund gas money for someone to attend a music event, buy a new set of roller skates, win a bodybuilding contest, and take a much-needed vacation. He recommends the Oakland-based charity Digital Detox and perhaps a stay at Campgrounded in the California redwoods. I haven't decided what kind yet."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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