Information and links about local, socially progressive organizations may be found at www.bapd.org

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Use The Bay Area Quarterly Guide, Open Exchange, to Promote Events, Classes, and the like:

Letter from the publishers of Open Exchange:
Promote Your Service, Class or Event now for January thru March 2007...
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We are working on the January/February/March 2007 issue now. Send listings, logos and ads to our email openexchange@earthlink.net soon and you'll be included in the Bay Area's largest circulation directory of its kind, both in print and online. Click on the banner above or on the link below to visit our website, then email us to reserve your space. Finally, send your material by email to us as soon as possible. Text can be sent as an attached word file and/or email text; images/photos/art can be sent as jpegs, tiffs or pdfs attached to email. Ads can be sent as pdfs attached, also.
Our website is www.openexchange.org
TELL YOUR STORY HERE, TOO: List your service in OPEN EXCHANGE and we'll publish your article, book excerpt, photos, and artwork, at no extra charge, space available. Published articles will be archived at www.openexchange.org for handy access by you and your prospective clients.
We encourage you to call or email with questions. Phone 510-526-7190 10am-12n or 2pm-5pm weekdays; leave messages other times.
We look forward to hearing from you!

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Members of the WISR community may wish to visit the website of the Radio Station, 960 am, The Quake.

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Information about the city of Berkeley and businesses and organizations in Berkeley may be found at the following web site: www.comevisitbekeley.com
For example, this site includes information about the following: Accommodations, Airline Services, Antiques, Apartments, Art, Attorneys, Attractions, Auto Dealers, Auto Rental, Banks, Barbers, Beauty, Bed & Breakfasts, Bookstores, Cafes, Campgrounds, Caterers, Chambers of Commerce, Cloths, Computer Dealers, Contractors, Dating, Dentists, Electronics, Employment, Festivals, Financial Services, Fishing, Florists, Gift Shops, Golf, Health, Health Care, Historical, Hobbies, Hotels, Inns, Insurance, Jewelers, Laundries, Loan Services, Manufacturers' Agents, Massage, Mortgages, Motels, Moving Companies, Museums, Music, Nightlife, Office Services, Opticians, Outdoor, Parks, Pet Care, Pharmacy, Photography, Publishers, Real Estate, Restaurants, Schools, Shopping, Sport & Recreation, Stadiums, Taxicabs, Tourist Info, Tours, Travel Agents, Websites, Weddings

The final issue of the online publication, Food For Thought, published by Compasspoint.org (Compasspoint Nonprofit Services) a list of especially helpful resources for nonprofits. [also available in pdf format]

In June 2006, compasspoint.org introduced a new e-newsletter, Talking Point. Here is what they said in introducing themselves: "Welcome to the premiere issue of TalkingPoint, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services' newest email newsletter for Bay Area nonprofit organizations. Count on us to sift through the chatter to deliver the nonprofit news you need to know, from provocative and informative quotes and polls to affordable and useful resources from points around our region." To subscribe send an email to talkingpoint-subscribe@lists.compasspoint.orgtalkingpoint-subscribe@lists.compasspoint.org

For those who work with low-income high school youth in Oakland, be aware of the East Bay College Fund. East Bay College Fund is a community-based non-profit organization that provides substantial scholarships, mentoring, and other support to Oakland public high school students from low income families and communities with historically low college attendance rates.

The Center for Independent Living offers Disability Awareness Training to inform people on the issues surrounding disability, and in particular for youth ages 14-22. "Disabled students learn to understand and accept their disabilities as well as how to secure accommodations. Non-disabled students learn to understand their disabled peers, disability culture, and the need for information on a wide range of disabilities, specific information on particular disabilities, and information on how best to accommodate those disabilities with increased awareness and sensitivity." For more information contact Luciana Sandoval, (510) 841-4776, x132 or by e-mail at lsandoval@cilberkeley.org

Eden I&R has extensive database on health and human services agencies. For more information contact Lidia Lai, Information Management Supervisor. (510) 727-9523. lidia@edenir.org

East Bay Community Law Center. Their mission, as stated on their web site is as follows: "A core value of our society is equal access to justice. The complex nature of the legal system limits equal access, especially for people in poverty and those faced with language and cultural barriers. Well-trained legal advocates should be available to all people, regardless of economic status. To that end, EBCLC provides:hands-on clinical education to law students to make these future lawyers aware of and skilled in addressing the needs of indigent communities; and desperately-needed legal services to the low-income community in the areas of housing, welfare, HIV/AIDS, homelessness and community economic development. Since its founding in 1988 by law students at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, EBCLC has become the largest provider of free legal services in the East Bay and a nationally-recognized poverty law clinic."