Search Results for: social activism
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Videos
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Underoath band members Tim McTague and Grant Brandell discuss the organizations they're involved with, from Causecast featured organizations like Invisible Children and Tom's Shoes to long-established groups like Habitat for Humanity, and discuss how making social change requires more than just words.
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Local Media for Social Change: A Southern California Regional Summit on March 21, 2009
How happy are you with your local news? How are the issues you care about being covered? If you are concerned that our democracy and your community are being under-served by the state of today's media, then you should join us for this informative half-day summit. Saturday, March 21, 2009 @ Occidental College. More info here (copy & paste link): http://www.commoncause.org/mediasummit
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Santa Barbara is known as the birthplace of the Modern Environmental Movement. This reputation grew from the publics actions in 1969 when an oil blowout spewed crude oil into the Santa Barbara Channel. The cry to Get Oil Out! rang loud, and the world reacted. Shortly after important environmental legislation was established, and institutions like Earth Day and UCSBs Environmental Studies program sprung up. Forty years later, with a new call for oil drilling and a new understanding of its ramifications, the lessons of the grassroots activism of 1969 are perhaps more pertinent now than ever. This movie looks to share those lessons in order to inspire a new generation of activism.
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Ervin Laszlo on Social Shift
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Causecast featured organization Creative Visions Foundation speaks out to the online community to share their thoughts about creative activism. This mashup consists of videos uploaded by various creative activists speaking out about creative ways to raise awareness and create social change about global issues.
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Sir Richard Branson and Volunteerism at the Virgin Mobile Freefest
Volunteers are awarded a trip to the Virgin Mobile Freefest, a music festival raising money and awareness for youth homelessness. Sir Richard Branson of Virgin encourages social change and activism during this time of economic challenges. Attendees donate money and time towards homeless youth for entry into the free festival. Virgin Unite focuses on the cause by benefiting StandUp For Kids, Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, and other organizations. This video follows the journey of two volunteers whose service and generosity led to a free trip across the country to see bands such as Blink 182, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand, The Bravery, Public Enemy, and more. (Music Credit: Girl Talk and Michael Cheever)
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This project supports an obesity prevention partnership to improve the social and physical environments for healthy nutrition and physical activity through advocacy and policy activities in the San Joaquin Valley. For more information visit us on the web at www.calendow.org.
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Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program
This project supports an obesity prevention partnership to improve the social and physical environments for healthy nutrition and physical activity through advocacy and policy activities in the San Joaquin Valley. For more information visit us on the web at www.calendow.org.
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Global Inauguration Quiz: Info
Win (2) 3 day Coachella VIP tickets, One Year membership to Netflix, and an Autographed X Games Skateboard Deck. In case the holidays engulfed your time and you didn't have a chance to make a donation, we are offering a special contest in honor of our new president. QUIZ BY GLOBAL INHERITANCE. Global Inheritance is a 501c3 non-profit organization working to reinvent activism and empower individuals to seek global balance. Our initiatives focus on the power of creativity to communicate and push for progressive social change. Global Inheritance targets various subcultures, developing campaigns that cater specifically to each individual demographic. Through interactivity, inspiration and education, Global Inheritance provides a bridge between ideas and action. Its January 13th, a dawn of a new year and a new president. President Obama has been "calling on us for change" and Arianna Huffington has stated that he is not the only one being inaugurated...We all are. It is our time to feel good, our opportunity to give back and our responsibility to make change. So lets make change start now with a little Inauguration Quiz. Now that we have a new president, why not add a more little fun to the inauguration speech and know that we're making a difference while we're at it. For every entry***, Causecast will donate $1 to Global Inheritance on Causecast. Join Now, Blog Your Answer, and maybe you will win.
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Articles
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Meaningful Art: Envisioning Change
Artists have played a great role in this election by raising awareness about the voting process and helped to define the candidates’ public images.
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Happiness Is Contagious In Social Networks
If you're feeling great today, you may end up inadvertently spreading the joy to someone you don't even know.
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Upcoming Social Action Boot Camps
Our Social Action Boot Camps bring together a diverse group of young community leaders, activists and social entrepreneurs for a day of networking and training.
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10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media
The world will never be the same now that social media has gone mainstream, according to Max Gladwell. How will these devices impact the future?
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Gavin Newsom on Prop 8, Social Media & His Run for Governor
Causecast's own Melissa Jun Rowley caught up with San Francisco mayor and 2010 gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom for his take on Prop 8 and social media.
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Brryan Jackson, From AIDS to Activism
Brryan Jackson was infected with HIV as an infant by a father hoping to kill him. Today, Brryan has beaten the odds and become a national AIDS activist.
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How To Raise Money For A Nonprofit
Fundraising for your nonprofit can be challenging, especially in a recession. Check out these step-by-step instructions to help you get started.
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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media
Causecast is proud to support Mashable's Summer of Social Good by posting their collaboration with Max Gladwell's #10Ways series. Read on and contribute!
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dead: A Life in Activism
At age 88, Eunice Kennedy Shriver passes away in Cape Cod. Causecast looks back on her lifelong commitment to championing the needs of the mentally disabled.
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As part of the Fiesta Movement’s Month of Social Activism, Brigitte Dale brought her web cam down to the LA City Mission to capture homelessness on Skid Row.
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Causecast Interviews HAIM On Diabetes, Peace In The Middle East And Social Media
Causecast had a chance to sit down with HAIM to talk about battling diabetes, peace in the Middle East and the joys of keeping up to date with social media.
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Causecast Music: Weekly Artist Interviews On Social Change
Leading up to the launch of Causecast Music, we’ve traveled to multiple music festivals and concerts to discuss the relationship between music and social change
Events
- Stepping Up In the City Location: Social Hollywood The Ballroom 6525 West Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028
- Best Buddies Volunteer Opportunity Location: Los Angeles (State Headquarters) 5711 West Slauson Avenue, Suite 170 Culver City, CA 90230
- Farm Sanctuary Launches National Adopt-A-Turkey Project Location: www.adoptaturkey.org
- Farm Sanctuary's Country Hoe Down Location: Farm Sanctuary's Barn 19080 Newville Rd Orland, CA 95963
- Jenesse Volunteer Opportunity Location: 90068
- Coalition to Abolish Slavery and TraffickingVolunteer Opportuniti Location: 5042 Wilshire Blvd., #586 Los Angeles CA 90036 P:213-365-1906
- Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking Volunteer Location: 5042 Wilshire Blvd., #586 Los Angeles CA 90036 P:213-365-1906
People
- bloobyrd Central Point, OR
- futureexecs
- ThinkPeaceMedia pasadena, CA
- rescodghana Tamale/Ghana
- JoyousSong Los Angeles, CA
- starfocus Falls Church, VA
- tanob11
- mfoster Olathe, KS
Blog posts
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The Jenzabar Foundation Social Media Leadership Award
Recognizing People Who Effectively Harness the Power of Social Media to Support Philanthropic Endeavors In light of the ever-active community of social media users, The Jenzabar Foundation is we...
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Kiva is the prefect cause for politically-conservative individuals
Social Activism has long been associated with those of a more liberal persuasion, politically speaking. However, one need look no further than the recent “Tea Parties” to see that ordinary conserv...
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Social Innovation Fund on Tap for 2010 Budget
The White House has announced that President Obama wll be calling on Congress to approve $50 million for the Social Innovation Fund in his FY2010 budget. The Social Innovation Fund will provide...
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Has the Web Found its Heartbeat?
As noted in a recent Arianna Huffington blog post, All for Good: A Craigslist for service highlights the call for volunteerism. ‘Cause-wired’ online social activism is a reality, unleashing t...
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Video Active training August 22 & 29 in Los Angeles!
I'm excited about this training that I'm doing with the LA Media Reform Group of California Common Cause and Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. It's a hands-on workshop t...
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So I'm wrapping up my last day here at Causecast and there's a lot to look back on. There have been some long days, but this has definitely been one of my better summers. Causecast has been a 'mark...
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Activism and the internet: youth presence is pronounced, growing
While democratic involvement is still rooted in the upper and middle classes, it seems that the millenial generation's online engagement may be breaking through socioeconomic lines. In a study rele...
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Liquidity and Community (Matt Flannery)
Kiva has a pretty important software release in a couple of days. First, we are releasing a "community" section of the site. The purpose of the section is clear enough -- to foster a sense of...
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1. We want freedom and the social, political and economic development and empowerment of our families and communities; and for all women, men and children throughout the world. 2. We want equal ...
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One selfish reason to support Step Up Women's Network
Last fall, the WSJ featured a column (Women Getting Better About Forming Networks to Help Their Climb) about women using their networking to make it to the executives offices. Women have longed bee...
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END WORLD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
THINK.MTV.COM & MTV NETWORKS TO WORLD PREMIERE WILL. I. AM’S NEW VIDEO INSPIRED BY GLOBAL INITIATIVE Celebrities Band Together to End World Poverty and Inequality in “In My Name” ...
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Conflicts of Interest...Blog exchange about priorities in the vaccine autism debate...
Again, I like to be fair to all sides... This was an exchange I had last summer on a blog... I still to this day ponder why and what motivates this mother to so vehemently attack parents of special...
