This is the third in American Association of Grant Professionals (AAGP) NorCal's Brown Bag Lunch Advanced Grantsmanship Workshop Series designed for intermediate to expert level grant professionals. Space is limited so please register only if you are sure to attend.

Devendra Sharma (performing Diaspora) and Vidhu Singh (playwright) discuss important issues surrounding the Bay Area Indian community. Topics include: immigration politics, women in forced marriage, Indian invitro industry, political economy of Silicon Valley and Indian outsourcing industries.

Join Robert Egger, founder and president of DC Central Kitchn, co-founder of Nonprofit Congress and leader of the V3 Campaign for an event that will challenge executives and board members alike to be powerful leaders in a bold new era. Nonprofits cannot sit idle any longer, nor can they afford to stand alone. As a sector, nonprofits stand as a powerful economic and social force in every community. Questions about the power possessed by a nonprofit and how the leader of a nonprofit plays an essential role in utilizing its capabilities will be addressed.

A Community Organizer's Tale tells the story rise and fall of the multi-issue Mission Coalition Organizing in rich detail. Join Mike Miller for lessons on organizing for social and economic justice and public policy analysis.

This is a formal request to honor sanctioned picket lines at University of California facilities in Alameda. Students and faculty will join workers for the walk-out. Campus unions, Building Trades and Teamsters have been advised.

The Women's Building is celebrating 30 years of service to San Francisco's women and girls. An open house will mark the event with an opportunity to tour this historic building in the Mission District and witness the variety of non-profits that operate from this edifice. A simultaneous celebration of the 15th anniversary of the MaestraPeace Mural, a work depicting women on various walks of life, will also be taking place. Guests will enjoy local, donated culinary delights and local performers including Loco Bloco and Kitten on the Keys. The muralists of MaestraPeace Mural will come to embellish the piece in its honor.

TURN invites you to evening of fun, friends, and refreshments at our new downtown location. RSVP by September 17th.

The Women's Building will celebrate 30 years of service to San Francisco's women and girls. An open house will mark this event with an opportunity to tour this historic, Mission District building and witness the variety of non-profit organizations that make their home in the Women's Building.

Half-day event brings together visionary thinking and practical action about arts, culture, community, work and citizenship. Join lively exchange among participants during panel presentations and in networking workshops that discuss their vision for community and action. Space is limited, register today http://exposymposium-09.eventbrite.com/, sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Stories, documentary films, interviews, facts, photography, and radio is presented by contributors to the New York Times, This American Life, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, All Things Considered, Mother Jones, and Wired. Drinks at the bar.

You are cordially invited to a dinner fundraiser with FSRN's Afghanistan Correspondent Asma Nemati. All proceeds to benefit Free Speech Radio News.

Enjoy a light brunch and hear from Lisa Sullivan, Latin American Coordinator with SOA Watch (School of the Americas). She will share the results of two trips to Honduras, both before and after the coup. Proceeds to benefit social movements in Honduras.

This gathering will educate attendees of how worker cooperatives can help to support new cooperatives, how tenants can organize to own housing collectively, how people can grow food in the city together, how bicycle mechanics can show neighborhood kids how to work on a bike, how to use renewable energy sources and do greywater installations, how to create timebanks, and many more collective local projects. This trade fair shows the potential for communities when working together. Panels will be discussing how to gain support resources from the grassroots economy and establish urban food security.

The Bay Area's grassroots connection fair for independent arts, music and culture.

On behalf of the indigenous immigrant communities in California, the Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities (CBDIO) and the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations (FIOB), are honored to announce the XI edition of La Guelaguetza 2009. La Guelaguetza is the most traditional and well-known festival in Oaxaca, Mexico. Donations $8.00 before the event, $10.00 at the door, and free admission for children under 12.

Book release event for Los Viajes: An Anthology of stories, images and poems of migration.

Celebrate the official launch of the Fair Trade Oakland and Fair Trade Berkeley campaigns. Join us for happy hour and get the Fair Trade Month party started early. Mingle with local Fair Trade companies and activists and meet the TransFair USA staff.

This high powered evening features Betsy Rose, Eve Decker and Andrea Prichett (of Rebecca Riots), with special guest Evelie Posch, as wellas jazz guitarist Shelley Doty and the funk band Blood Sugar Sex Machine. This is a benefit to raise money to help Independents for Community Radio get elected to the KPFA Station Board and bring the community focus back to KPFA.

The city and Lennar Corporation are promulgating a redevelopment plan, but what about ecology, wildlife and the human community? ArcEcology's recent report illustrates new and exciting alternatives for the Bayview-Hunter's Point Redevelopment. How is Candlestick Point State Recreation Area affected? Isn't Bayview/Hunter's Point entitled to its own Crissy Field? How can (re)development benefit the current residents and be driven by their needs and wants?

Rally with community members and organizations to protest the state cuts to essential social services. The rally will feature local activists, social service providers and an open mic.

Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative (TEEI) presents an interactive overview of employment law affecting transgender and gender-nonconforming employees and job seekers.

Rally with community members and organizations to protest the state cuts to essential social services. Let's stand together to fight for real solutions to California's budget crisis.

At this workshop, learn how to use online tools to organize workers and community members and garner media attention. Depending on the interests of the participants, topics covered will include: How to use the web to mobilize people for events, influence policy makers, educate audiences about the issues you care about, presentation skills, and how to use Web 2.0 skills like YouTube.

This forum aims to provide a balanced overview of the most controversial elements of the current health care reform legislation for the UC Berkeley student community.

CDP is a competitive grants program of the California Council for the Humanities in partnership with the Skirball Foundation. CDP supports humanities-based film, radio, and new media projects that document the California experience and explore issues of significance to Californians. Production grants range from $20,000 to $50,000. Research and development grants are as much as $7,000. Proposals are submitted online.

Ethnic media reporters and freelance journalists are encouraged to apply. Fellows will research a story or a series of their design, documenting and explaining the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the ethnic community served by their publication.

Seminary of the Street and Bay-Area Nonviolent Communication are offering a workshop to increase effectiveness and connection in your organization. Space is limited, so please pre-register if at all possible.

Would you like to become a resource in your community? In this workshop you can learn basic skills in empathetic listening that can support you in various areas. We are excited to offer this training as part of the International Day of Empathetic Action and International Nonviolence Day to honor Gandhi's birthday.

Noam Chomsky on Obama, The Middle East and the Prospects for Peace.

Come to the San Francisco book launch of longtime activist and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader's first novel. What if some of America's most powerful individuals decided it was time to fix our government and return the power to the people? Don't miss this!

Join Noam Chomsky in conversation with Bay Area organizers David Bacon, Anotinia Juhasz, and Steve Williams. Seniors and students $15, sliding scale upon request. To purchase tickets: www.uusf.org/chomsky

Aspiration is pleased to announce our Fall 2009 ZeroDivide eAdvocacy Trainings. Lunch and all-day coffee are provided. Space is limited, so please register early.

Join us in celebrating the beauty and power in the intersection of disability, embodiment, vision, and justice!Beloved queer white genderqueer disability activist and poet Eli Clare celebrates the publication of this 10th anniversary edition of his groundbreaking work.

This movie that premieres in New York and then will spread to theaters across the country in the following two weeks is about the principle that free-market capitalism is dangerous, and hurts people that it shouldn't and is a satire. The opening night and following three nights of screenings would have post-screening events that would have the audience take to the streets and observe violators.

A Special Double Bill. Fresh off a powerful inspirational opening for Acvtors Theater of Louisville's 33rd annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, The Living Word Festival is proud to present Universes, featuring the ensemble work of Gamal Abdel Chasten, Mildred Ruiz a.k.a. Ninja, and Steven Sapp. Rounding out the evening will be a special presentation of Mirrors in Every Corner by Chinaka Hodge, directed by USA Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Premiere of a new short film developed by Bayview residents in collaboration with the BayView Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology Community Cinema program.

The Chabot Space & Science Center is sponsoring a unique one-day climate change workshop entitled "Too Much and Not Enough" at Chabot Space & Science Center. The workshop will explore water issues for the Bay Area and California in a changing climate environment.

Join activists, artists and revolutionaries for the first session of the Art as Propaganda Workshop series. The Heresies were a feminist collective began in the 70's who published groundbreaking magazines devoted to social change through art and politics. Learn their work from two organizers of Art XX Magazine who are committed to radical media, and will teach attendees how to make zines for an organization or project.

Still strong after 15 years of community activism, the Social Justice Center of Marin invites you its 14th Annual Awards Dinner & Meeting. Keynote speaker will be Marylia Kelley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley Communities Against Radioactive Environments (CAREs). Cost is $45 and sliding scale.

The Center for Cities & Schools at UC Berkeley is excited to announce our Fall Institute: Innovative Policy Strategies for Public Education and Neighborhood Transformation on Tuesday, 13 October. There will be speakers from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, CA Department of Education, the Association of Bay Area Governments, and local cities and school districts.

Come hear WEA Advocacy Director, Caitlin Sislin share with us the work of WEA's Women and Land Initiative, uniting legal and policy advocates with indigenous women environmental justice leaders for sacred sites protection, energy justice, and environmental health.

Join us and our partner, the U.C. Berkeley Labor Center, at the BEN Conference and BENNY Awards. Topics include the Employee Free Choice Act, Climate & Energy, and Health Care Reform.

Join the San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals in a round table discussion featuring a panel of emerging and established Bay Area arts professionals as they share their career paths, challenges, and advice. Light refreshments served.$8 at the door.

Join the SF Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals in a round table discussion featuring a panel of emerging and established Bay Area artists share their career paths, challenges, and advice.

Amnesty International USA hosts a discussion that provides an opportunity for the public to discuss topics at the intersection of counterterrorism and human rights, including accountability for U.S. torture, Guantanamo closure, Bagram and indefinite detention with members of the military community, lawyers and counterterrorism. Panelists that are from Amnesty International and the U.S. military and UC Berkeley will answer questions.

Michelle Dizon, Filipino American artist from LA, screens her installation video comparing the 1995 riots in France and the 1992 riots in LA, illuminating political issues of marginal citizenship, migration and exile, media and the erasure of memories of historical violence. By bringing examples of experimental political installations we look for possibilities of reconfiguring political subjects and action. Dalida Maria Benfield, filmmaker, and scholar, Laura Fantone, visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, Beatrice Bain, Interdisciplinary Research Group.

Nicholas Kristof discusses his new book (co-written with his wife Sheryl DuWunn) "Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide".

Rana Hussieni is a renowned Jordanian journalist, feminist, human rights defender, and the world's leading advocate against honor killings, in Jordan and around the world. Her new provocative book, Murder In the Name of Honor, brings her message about these horrendous crimes to a global audience and tells the story behind both high-profile and unreported cases of honor killings.

A talk with the co-authors of the book mentioned above, the authors discuss the book, and the need for stronger unions in the United States that are not based on the labor union structures of the past.

Please join the U.C. Berkeley Labor Center for a conversation with author Amy Dean on her new book: A New New Deal.

SEEDS Community Resolution Center will host a day long event in Preservation Park in downtown Oakland called "Cultivating Common Ground- Restoring our Communities". Join government and community leaders, judges, attorneys, mediators, and SEEDS supporters in honoring Judge Gail Bereola for her work in implementing Restorative Justice practices in Alameda County Juvenile Court.

"Saving Lives Creating Hope" will be an enjoyable evening of wine, appetizers, and a silent auction to benefit programs supported by A Global Connection".

Local AHCJ and SPJ chapters have teamed up to present FOI and Public Records Workshop: Smart Tips for Journalists. Speakers will provide background, examples, and smart strategies on navigating FOI hurdles, translating records, and how to make requests for public records. $5 for SPJ and AHCJ members.

During the run-up to war in Iraq, Army Colonel (Ret.) and diplomat Ann Wright resigned her State Department post. In Dissent: Voices of Conscience, Ann Wright and Susan Dixon tell the stories of these men and women who risked careers, reputations, and even freedom out of loyalty to the Constitution and the rule of law.

Join us as we meet to create a forum for community leaders to engage in dialogue with other community leaders regarding regional health issues. Help develop a regional Latino health agenda.

A night of performances featuring jazz music, spoken word, and dance celebrating the 40th anniversary of the the UC Berkeley Third World Strike with a panel discussion and exhibit to follow the performance.

As the real estate market continues to fluctuate and stimulus funds become available, nonprofit organizations are finding new opportunities to create quality workspace and facilities for themselves and the communities they serve. Join us for a hands-on training seminar to gain practical tools to develop, finance, and manage a mission-enhancing nonprofit facility in this economic climate.

Six-hour workshop based on the belief that anti-racism is a catalyst for building powerful and effective multiracial movements to create justice in the United States. The workshop looks at the impact of institutional racism and the various permutations of this upon social justice work, in order to build a healthy, and just society, and regional inclusiveness within appropriate boundaries as a basis for movements.

UNAFF is sponsoring an event to address energy and the world. Topic areas include Italy, Niger, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Europe, Canada, Guatemala, and the USA.

The YNPN Career Development Committee will be hosting a program focusing on transitioning into the nonprofit sector. The event will include facilitated networking and break-out opportunities.

ShadowLight Productions, Voice of Witness and the National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the Mission Cultural Center co-present an evening about using the power of immigrant stories to put a human face on the often-polarizing U.S. immigration issue.

Join us as we shed light on the relationship between transportation, land use, housing and climate change and the opportunities that SB375 may offer us in advancing regional equity as it meets its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Seating is limited so RSVP today.

Copyright Criminals is a film addressing the evolution and ownership of hip-hop as a multi-billion-dollar industry. Years before people started downloading and re-mixing music, hip-hop sampling sparked a debate about copyright, creativity and technological change that still rages today.

The Wild and Scenic Film Festival is the largest environmental film festival in the United States. The festival showcases environmental and adventure films that illustrate the Earth's beauty, the challenges facing our planet, and the work that communities are doing to protect the environment. Program 1 begins at 6:00 PM and Program 2 begins at 8:30 PM. The cost is $25 for both programs.

The Pacific Film Archive presents: Chilean Directors in Person. Sebastian Moreno Madrones will be on hand to discuss two films: City of Photographers (6:30 PM) and The Sacred Family (8:40 PM)

This summit has been conceived as a virtual public event with the goal of reaching the widest possible audience of those who care about arts journalism.

Are you interested in making a podcast with your non-profit community group, but have no idea how to start? Join Community Technology Network for a very exciting evening with podcasters from all around non-profit media guru Britt Bravo.

This is a discussion about the document "Notes from the Female Reality in Mexico" written by two female authors that describes rising from violence and criminalization of abortion to feminization of poverty. They are politically organizing there. A Mexican supper will be served.

A party at the Muse Gallery. Chat with Public Press reporters and tell them what kind of stories you'd like to see. Gifts, entertainment, food and drinks.

A film about a crucial moment in history when the sorrow of young Argentines - whose parents were disappeared, tortured and killed during the Dirty War - erupted into public action and became a cornerstone for people's movements all over South America. Meet filmmakers John Knoop and Karina Epperlein.

Honoring the leadership and activism and work of four activists that have voiced the experiences of women of color everywhere in a celebratory event.

Round table discussion of the Youtube video of a fight on MUNI and the underlying causes.

The center for Nonprofit Success is pleased to invite you to the Fundraising Summit taking place in San Francisco. Over 350 nonprofit leaders attended our Summit last year, and came away with real world solutions to the fundraising challenges that they were facing.

Join us for this very special evening with renowned scholar and historian Robin D.G. Kelley as he reads from his new biography "Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original". Piano prelude by Muzicki Roberts.

What is going to be accomplished by "cap-and-trade?" How is global warming being co-opted by corporate power? How are the effects of climate change already appearing on the planet's and the Bay Area's ecosystems? What is the relationship between climate change and ecological restoration? A month before the Copenhagen Climate Conference, join Tom Athanasiou (Eco-Equity), Jon Christensen (Stanford University), Dan Gluesenkamp (Director of Habitat Restoration at Audubon Canyon Ranch), Laura Catellini (GGNRA and Nature in the City).

Orchestrating Powerful Community Dialogue is a workshop for community leaders, city, county, government staff and civic and religious leaders. Join us for a dynamic and highly interactive workshop that will give you cutting-edge ideas in communication and civic engagement. This day-long workshop will cover many topics and includes lunch. Space is limited so please register by October 23rd.

Presentation by Jeff Conant of Food and Water Watch on social movements in Latin America resisting the privatization of the water supply.

The next hearing date for JR Valrey is Friday, October 30th. Come out to show your opposition to this vindictive prosecution on trumped up felony charges!

The Pacific Film Archive presents Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment. Ken Musen (U.S., 1988) A documentary on the notorious 1971 psychological experiment that transformed college students into "prisoners" and "guards."

For one night only, one of the country's leading contemporary artist, Marc Bamuthi Joseph will be performing at the renowned Berkeley Repertory Theater. Bamuthi uses theater, west African, tap and modern dance, spoken word poetry and live music to stretch the boundaries of traditional hip-hop and create a new form of expression. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=MWRD-4Ah2LQ) Doors open at 7:00 PM. Group rates are available.

Emerging filmmakers are asked to submit feature-length narrative and non-narrative film projects that reflect universal themes inherent within Indian culture. Submissions have begun and will be accepted until November 2.

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts presents Day of the Dead 2009: Bring Back the Dead The Grand Cemetery of J.G. Posada and M. Manilla Calaveras, A Memoriam for the Dead. The exhibit runs from October 15th through November 21st, Tues - Sat from 10:00 - 5:00 PM. $30 for a group of 25 students.

The Oak Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Colby College in Waterville, Maine is proud to announce a call for nominations for the 2010 Oak Human Rights Fellowship. Please submit nominations no later than November 2, 2009. The deadline for completed applications is December 15, 2009.

MIT-supported MEET empowers Palestinian and Israeli students to create positive social change in their own communities, to be business partners and to build a leadership network by assisting them to develop technology projects and to find common ground. Cost: $8 for members, $7 for students, $15 for non-members.

The Tiburon Film Society will present Familiar Voices, a feature length documentary covering reactions to the ongoing crisis in Darfur.

Join us for this eye-opening panel to learn how communities around the world from Brazil, India, South Africa, and Oakland are facing the challenges posed by the current food system. Find out how people are organizing and creating local alternatives, and learn what you can do.

Rithy Panh (Cambodia, 2002) Victims and perpetrators of state violence in Cambodia together confront the atrocities of the 1970s in Rithy Panh's moving documentary. "Unforgettable...as a horrific exposure to evil as Shoah." - Village Voice

SEEDS Community Resolution Center presents a 2 day, hands on training on conflict resolution skills. Topics include communication skills, exploring hooks and triggers, conflict styles, and cultural identity as it relates to conflict.

Some of the Bay Area's most exciting minds in traditional performance tackle hot topics including criticism and aesthetics, representation and appropriation, and social justice during a day-long gathering. The event is presented by CounterPulse and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in association with the African and African American Performing Arts Coalition, Dance Mission Theater, and the Dance Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley. Non-stop panels, networking and receptions plus a participatory lecture/demonstration. Full schedule of events online.

You Can Kill the Revolutionary but you Can't Kill the Revolution - Former political prisoner, Fred Hampton, Jr. will discuss the 40th anniversary of the assassination of his 21-year-old father, Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther party for Self-Defense and his comrade, 22-year-old Defense Captain, mark Clark; Both killed by the U.S. government in 1969. Special guest for the event will be Sonoma County resident, Elbert (Big man) Howard, co-founder of the Black Panther Party Oakland.

Women's Earth Alliance presents Coming Up From the Roots - A Local to Global Celebration of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Justice with Joanna Macy, Art in Action, and CommuniTree. Live music provided by master kora player, Youssoupha Sidibe.

Independent Arts and Media presents Get Your Sh*t Together: A Hands-On Action Accelerator for Artists. Build a bridge between your inspiring ideas and daily life, finances, and career. Audette Sophia of CatalystArts will present tools and resources that can harness all that messy, fabulous potential and creativity, and help your ideas find their way to action.

AIM-WEST and friends will revisit the historic occupation of Alcatraz, show video clips, tell stories, and most importantly, connect this important historic event with the decades of organizing the political resistance since the time, which ultimately led to a maelstrom of events including the historical United Nations General Assembly adoption of the "Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" on 13 September, 2007.

Please join our multi-lingual, multi-racial, circle of music, poetry, ceremony, art and scholarship on land, migration and resistance - A POOR Press Benefit.

The Ella Hill Baker Center for Human Rights year end fundraiser will celebrate three outstanding visionaries who have broken through barriers and blazed trails for social and environmental justice in the Bay Area. $30 at the door.

What will it take to achieve affordable quality health care for all? The Democratic-led Congress has tried to distance itself from single-payer or a public option. Bring your ideas and strategies to this discussion on building a grassroots movement to guarantee universal coverage for everyone. You are invited to share a delicious autumn buffet ($7.50 donation) with vegetarian option prior to the meeting as a benefit for the organization. The meeting is free.

The Cartoon Museum, the only museum in the western United States dedicated to all forms of cartoons and comics, is delighted to host its sixth annual benefit at Pixar Animation Studios. The Family Fun Tier gives families a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Pixar. Tickets range from $35 to $100. The VIP Screening Tour is designed for the biggest fans to help support the Cartoon Art Museum. Tickets range from $99 to $1500. All tickets must be purchased in advance at 415-227-8666 extension 300. See website for ticket pricing details.

Art as Propaganda Workshop presents Fashion as Protest and Inspiration: Punk, Queer, and Freak. We'll discuss political, environmental, and creative reasons for dressing uniquely, and how we can effect change through the language of clothing. Please being any clothes you'd like to creatively patch.

Global warming, the energy crisis, and economic instability are already reaping devastating impacts on low-income people and communities of color. In the face of these challenges, a growing network of racial justice, environmental, and community resilience leaders are coming together to build a truly inclusive and equitable movement for regional self-reliance.

Every year we gather as a community to celebrate and collectively re-connect with the inspiring possibility of a world where everyone's innate worth is honored. See website for event schedule.