Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. iPad, iPhone, MacOS) is a student planner that helps you keep track of your class schedule, track your grades and GPA, manage homework assignments, and create an interactive calendar. Additional Resources.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Students develop and run a business, gain confidence, academic support, and mentorship. Beyond 12 is developing the next generation of MyCoach, a mobile app that helps low-income students navigate the path to college and stay on track once they arrive, significantly enhancing graduation rates. Semi-Finalists ($100,000 grant winners).

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Students, professors, and deans will be able to express their opinion and report any problems in their school or university. For example, Code for Oakland hosted an event called ReWrite Oakland, which focused how to make the Oakland city government website more accessible and easier to use.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

Volunteer in Oakland outside of my home office, and away from my computer. Adult volunteers read once a week, one-on-one with two students for 30 minutes each. Flickr photo credit: Downtown Oakland 2 uploaded by ChrisDag. 2009 resolution New Year volunteer donate Oakland local business

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

1st Place : Urban Ecology for its East Bay Greenway project, a concept plan detailing a 12-mile bicycle and pedestrian pathway that will serve as a vital transportation and community building link between Oakland and Hayward. Runners-up : Light of Cambodian Children , Open Hand Studios. Other Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times throughout October-December as we presented dozens online webinars and guest posts and articles.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

or Code for Oakland ). meets LinkedIn for students. There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust. Another project at the Saturday Hackathon 4 Good was Qeyno , which is described as Khan Academy.

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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. As one student says, "It's a whole approach that the body is your temple as opposed to 'Thin is in,'" John says.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Darius is currently a law student at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy , and an Editor of the California Law Review. The winner will be chosen at random and announced on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009. ordinary heroes book

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

So they looked into building an ADU they could rent to local students. Also last July, TechCrunch covered Mighty Buildings, an Oakland-based startup building ADUs and other housing that raised $22 million. As longtime Bay Area residents, his parents sought additional income upon his father’s retirement. The practice is not uncommon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2009

The Iron Souls is a Motorcycle Club based out of Oakland California that gives back to the betterment of the community. our school asb hosted a hats on day where students could wear hats to school to help raise funds for the foundation for children with cancer. I am a Iron Soul. We really have fun doing it too.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Magic mushrooms are decriminalized in my hometown of Oakland, California , and a bunch of other cities and states are considering legalizing various psychedelics, including LSD, mushrooms, peyote, ayahuasca and many others. The volunteers will have the option to apply to become students of these institutions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

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. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

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. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

You hear them speak, or you read their book, or you listen to your podcast, and then you generally write to that person, or you go up to them, rush them at the end of a speech and say, "I'm a student, I want to get involved." I met with people like Erin Potts, the founder of the Students for a Free Tibet concert series.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs. In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day. Nonprofit Website Overview.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. I ended up going to college, trying to be an architect, because, again, I was one of those honor-roll students.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. In October the City of Berkeley soft ordered 40 plug-ins and in December the city of Alameda soft ordered 98.

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Have Fun - Do Good

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. Students, people in churches, people in environmental groups who have embraced Fair Trade as a positive model of change. What is Starbucks relationship with Fair Trade?

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Tableau

MAY 3, 2021

Amid this movement, school districts—first Minneapolis , then Portland , Oakland , Denver , and more–announced they would sever their contracts with the city police departments. . Native American students are also referred and arrested disproportionately. The effect of law enforcement presence on students of color.

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Tableau

MAY 3, 2021

Amid this movement, school districts—first Minneapolis , then Portland , Oakland , Denver , and more–announced they would sever their contracts with the city police departments. . Native American students are also referred and arrested disproportionately. The effect of law enforcement presence on students of color.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Extra special good news if you’re a student: Our events team put together a deal for you, with a chance to get a free ticket to Disrupt! In Oakland and Denver, “magic mushrooms” have already been decriminalized for adult use.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

Tech solutions combined with forward-thinking, inspired, and innovative community leaders like Gita Rampersad, vice president of healthcare partnerships and nutrition at Feeding America, and Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, superintendent of Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), offer a model for how to tackle complex issues. About the Author.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

There are more than 500,000 yellow school buses transporting over 27 million students every day. m has a fleet of 206 school buses, and in Oakland Unified School District, where it has 70 buses, according to Narayan. The Biden administration has proposed a $25 billion investment in electric school buses.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

While the staff who led the project cheerfully commented that they didn't know what they were doing when they started, the process they ended up with bears remarkable similarity to other successful co-creative efforts , like the Wing Luke Asian Museum's community exhibition process or the Oakland Museum's Days of the Dead project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

For example, after our conversation, I checked out the volunteer opportunities at one of my local hospitals, the Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland. interview college students via the web so that they can be interns when they come home for the summer). online marketing). Interviews (i.e Orientations and trainings (i.e.

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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. Do not isolate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

Nola is as old as the Center she works for, thirty, and over the past two years, she has become an expert on sexually exploited minors in Oakland and has watched as the population grows. When I asked her why teenage prostitution is so prevalent in Oakland, she said, "Because they can do it here. It can't happen fast enough."

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Online-focused institutions like Southern New Hampshire University and National University lead in advertising spend, investing heavily in student acquisition through marketing channels. Which states spend the most on university advertising?

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