Cedric Brown (CEO) has over 20 years of experience as an educator and funder, working with the SF Foundation, SF Education Fund, Switzer Foundation, SF Cultural Equity Grants, and Level Playing Field Institute among others.  He is a board/committee member of Northern California Grantmakers, Funders Committee for Civic Participation, and Council on Foundation’s Family Philanthropy Committee, and was immediate past board chair of Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy. Cedric received the 2010 ABFE Emerging Leader in Philanthropy Award and was profiled as a 2011 Changemaker in the San Francisco Chronicle. Cedric holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and Stanford University and an executive certificate from Georgetown University. He can be reached at cbrown(at)mkf.org.

Source@:  http://www.mkf.org/about/staff.html

Cedric Brown has over 20 years experience as an educator and funder, working with the San Francisco Foundation, the San Francisco Education Fund, Switzer Foundation, San Francisco Cultural Equity Grants, and Level Playing Field Institute among others. He serves as chair of Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy and is a board member of Funders Committee for Civic Participation. Cedric was 2007 Fellow of the Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) and received the 2010 ABFE Emerging Leader in Philanthropy Award. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and Stanford University, and an executive certificate from Georgetown University.

http://www.ncg.org/s_ncg/sec.asp?CID=11280&DID=25703

Chandler is a personal information management software suite described by its developers as a “Note-to-Self Organizer”[citation needed] designed for personal and small-group task management and calendaring. It is free software, previously released under the GNU General Public License, and now released under the Apache License 2.0. It is inspired by a PIM from the 1980s called Lotus Agenda, notable because of its “free-form” approach to information management. Lead developer of Agenda, Mitch Kapor, was also involved in the vision and management of Chandler.

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(L) Mitch Kapor, confederate of FBI’s Shrimpscam Gwen Moore and Judy Johnson, recently dubbed “Michael Shames of Northern California” because of a propensity to operate through a foundation, and than some. For example, in 2008, the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF)– a non-profit organization founded in 2002 by Mitch Kapor whose purpose was to effect widespread adoption of free software/open-source software — was purposefully used to effect political propaganda on behalf of “OBAMA FOR AMERICA.” Presently, both he and his spouse, CaliforniaALL director Freada Kapor Klein(R), are under extreme scrutiny in connection with the unsettling financial transactions involving the California Bar Foundation and CaliforniaALL. (image:courtesy)

CaliforniaALL’s Kamala Harris of OBAMA FOR AMERICA visits the Kapor Center located at 543 Howard Street in San Francisco.

In 2008, serving as San Francisco “office-manager” of OBAMA FOR AMERICA was Bettina Neuefeind, shown above at “The Kapor Center.” Neuefeind is married to Larry Lessig — a known confederate of Mitch Kapor. (image:courtesy)

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Chandler consists of a cross-platform desktop application (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux), the Chandler Hub Sharing Service, Chandler Server, Chandler Quick Entry for iPhone, Chandler Quick Entry for Android and Chandler iGoogle widget. Version 1.0 of the software was released on August 8, 2008.

Chandler is being developed by the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF). The main programming language is Python, and it runs under Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. It is named after the mystery novelist Raymond Chandler.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_%28software%29

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Years ago, Mitch Kapor invested large sums of money into the OSAF – Open Source Applications Foundation – to come up with a new personal information manager called Chandler. Having burned through the $8 million they got via various means ($5M from Kapor originally), most (all?) of their developers were cut loose early in 2009 as I understand it, leaving the Chandler project – and associated projects – somewhat in limbo.

On a whim, I decided to have a look at the current state of play: turns out Chandler 1.0 is pretty much dead

Source@:

http://www.alexhudson.com/2009/11/04/whatever-happened-to-the-chandler-project/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT:
Eric Wong, Fairness Fund Administrator
Level Playing Field Institute
415-946-3046
415-946-3001 – fax
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   LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE LAUNCHES THE FAIRNESS FUND

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 1, 2005) – In the spirit of acknowledging the
innovative ways organizations are working towards fairness in their communities, Level
Playing Field Institute established the Fairness Fund.     Supported by a grant from the
Mitchell Kapor Foundation, the Fairness Fund enables Level Playing Field Institute to
provide small, one-time grants to organizations who share their commitment to fairness
and inclusion in education and workplaces for underrepresented students/persons.               
“We recognize that achieving fairness is a big job, and that we cannot do it alone,” says
Caroline Barlerin, Level Playing Field Institute’s Managing Director.  “We are eager to
help support valuable work and thinking beyond our walls.”

Evolved from their former grants program, the Fairness Fund allows Level Playing Field
Institute to exercise its entrepreneurial spirit through proactive small-scale funding.         

 Their goal of establishing the Fairness Fund is to be a resource for organizations committed to
revealing and removing barriers to fairness.     The Fairness Fund will strategically invest in
projects that increase access to opportunities for underrepresented persons/students, and
fund the development and dissemination of relevant toolkits, best practices, curriculums,
etc. that continue to level the playing field.

The Fairness Fund allows Level Playing Field Institute the rare opportunity for a non-
profit organization to both create and run programs of its own, and support other
organizations doing great work in this important sector.

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Level Playing Field Institute is a non-profit organization with a mission to promote
innovative approaches to fairness in higher education and workplaces by removing
barriers to full participation.  For more information and Fairness Fund guidelines, please
visit www.lpfi.org.
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Does Obama face political opposition because he is black? Would he experience less challenges from conservatives if he were white? These are the kinds of discussions being raised in this election–questions that Jesse Washington explores in his latest Bloomberg Businessweek article “Does racial bias fuel Obama foes? How to tell?”. To be clear, we are reporting this news from a nonpartisan position. As a co-sponsor of the Smashing Bias Prize for hidden bias research, we have an ongoing interest in how implicit bias plays a role in different processes. Given the overlap with our civic engagement work, this article brings up important points to think about in trying to understand and uncover hidden bias and its pervasiveness in our country–particularly in an area which is not too often explored like the political arena.

Implicit bias refers to the unconscious assumptions or prejudices that individuals carry with them about race or gender which results in practices or policies with unequal outcomes and opportunities.

http://blog.mkf.org/2012/09/18/is-political-opposition-to-obama-partly-based-…

First, Ugotrade:

* Entire article, including photos, please see source: http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/11/13/freada-kapor-klein-and-mitch-kapor-incubat…

543 Howard is a large, child and dog friendly building South of Market. It is home to several organizations all connected with one another that Freada and Mitch founded.  Some are non- profit and some for-profit, but all share a common kind of value framework – trying to make a difference in the world.

The picture above is Bettina Neuefeind (married to Larry Lessig – Change Congress). Bettina and volunteer, Roy Bowers, look as though they are feeling confident shortly before Barak Obama became President Elect.

Bettina, a photographer (see her election photoset) and attorney, took leave from her job as an attorney to work as Volunteer Office Manager for the SF Obama for America HQ back in September.  Bettina organized an overflow phone bank at 543 Howard during the November 1-4 Get Out the Vote (GOTV) .

Freada encapsulated the mission of 543 Howard to me:

    So it is about empathy, It is about building understanding and it is about building bridges between the non-profit world and the for profit world, between the geeks and the social justice types between lots of different types of groups.  Everybody is smart, everybody has a big heart and everybody is working on great things. So we are really trying to work together and build community.
Mitch explained more about the organizations at 543:

    There are several organizations all connected with one another, some non- profit, some for-profit but all efforts that Freada and Mitch founded. There is Level Playing Field Institute – an activist non-profit – which Freada started that runs scholarship and leadership development programs for underrepresented students of color and is involved in reducing bias in the work place. Also there is The Mitchell Kapor Foundation which has grant programs in education, the environment and voting access.

    We did a whole big program this year to help organizations in terms of people’s right to vote.  And on election day we have been hosting one of the National Call Centers for the Election Protection Coalition. We have room full of volunteer attorneys hooked up to phones connected to 866 Our Vote. So we are part of this national system where people can refer any problem they are having voting.

    The Election Protection Center has been in the works for months.  We had to get tied into their 800 number.  There is a lot of set up for that. Election Protection is strictly non-partisan.  As you noticed,  when we were together there, I had to take off my Obama T-Shirt when I went in the room.  It is like a polling place you can’t have any political signs.
Also for the last few days here, we have been hosting a call center phone bank. Obama For America ran out of room in their office space in SF and we had some extra space. So they have their own cell phones and charges, and we have been making the space available so they can make get out the vote calls in the final days of the campaign.

Everyone was quite nervous at the beginning of the night!

I went into Second Life (Mitch Kapor was the Angel Investor for Linden Lab) to find people were anxiously watching there too – on Capitol  Hill.  Capitol Hill was built by Steve Nelson from Clear Ink. Steve’s Interactive Polling Map is only one of a number of interesting projects he has pioneered in Second Life.  See New World Notes for just how big the victory celebrations got in Second Life.

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Located on Howard Street between First and Second in the South Financial District of downtown San Francisco, 543 Howard was built in 1924 as a three-story grocery warehouse.

Since 2003, the Kapor Center has supported an array of educational, environmental, high tech and social justice organizations and activities in our Howard Street offices.

In addition to our primary occupants— Mitchell Kapor Foundation, Level Playing Field Institute, Klein Associates, Kapor Enterprises, and Kapor Capital, we also currently house Carbon War Room.

Now recently renovated, 543 Howard Street embodies the very best in contemporary design and thoughtful engineering. Recognizing that progressive workplaces mean healthier employees, 543 Howard’s owners incorporated the use of environmentally sensitive, or “green” practices throughout the building’s remodel.

Please see source:

http://www.kaporcenter.com/sf/