Pretty much everyone in their life has reached a turning point. A place where they have to face their demons. To look at their life and see two paths ahead of them. For most of us, on the whole, these moments have been relatively low stakes, even if it doesn’t feel that way at the […]

It’s finally here. It’s Giving Tuesday, the day of our first official $O$ event. I’m writing this from 30,000 feet en route from Cincinnati to San Francisco to join the rest of the $O$ team for the event. It’s been chaotic. We finally reserved the event space a week ago. Our planned speaker dropped out […]

By Tug Brice This Thanksgiving, I want to give thanks for the two people I wouldn’t be here without. Something Alan and I have in common is that we both have very supportive parents. I put my parents through hell as a young man and the whole time they simply amazing.  When I was suffering […]

It’s the season of giving. We are a week away from Thanksgiving, not that much further from December and all of the holidays that come with it. It’s time to do what you can for your fellow human beings. It is an oft-quoted myth that suicides rise during the holiday season. The CDC published an […]

$0$ is planning its first official event! It’s on Giving Tuesday (https://www.givingtuesday.org/) and will be held in our Oakland office at the Impact Hub. The EventBrite page has all the details, including a way to register to tell us you are coming, the address, and time ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/0-giving-tuesday-event-tickets-79115288959?aff=eac2) The event will consist of creating our […]

I’ve compared being in poverty to being underwater before. Turns out it’s an apt metaphor. Our latest contact told me that’s exactly how she feels: like she’s drowning. I’ve heard that a lot. People say they can’t breathe, that they are struggling to stay afloat, that they feel out to sea with no land in […]

So this is Tuesday’s blog, and it is late. Things have been a bit crazy for $0$ and for me personally over the last few days. This weekend was huge for us at $0$. We had two new people come in, one through Facebook (which is a first) plus someone who had previously contacted us […]

I mentioned a while ago that I was going to start substitute teaching. Well, this week was my first two jobs. On Wednesday, I subbed for a kindergarten teacher who had to take her kids to the doctor for an afternoon, and on Thursday I unexpectedly ended up teaching 4th grade all day. I was […]

I’m gonna take a little break from the stuff I usually write about to talk a little about the tech side of $0$. Now normally that’s Alan’s side of things, and he definitely has a few blog posts in the works about that, but I’m just going to cover a few of the basics. I’ve […]

Normally on Saturday I put out a previously published blog entry to Facebook rather than writing original content. That’s been preempted due to something much more imporant. Best efforts… I wrote a little bit ago about us getting bus tickets for one of our clients. That article was primarily about harm minimization. See, we knew […]