California nonprofits included at Obama's jobs summit 12/4/09

The leaders of two Oakland-based national nonprofits - Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Green for All - were among the 135 invited participants in President Obama's jobs summit held yesterday at the the White House. Joining them were California business people - including Joni Marie O'Neil, Mission Viejo Florist, Inc. and Eric Schmidt, Google Inc. - and government officials - including former California congressmember and now Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Ashley Swearengin, Mayor of Fresno. Diana Aviv, CEO of Independent Sector, whose members include a number of California nonprofits, also participated. Obama said at the summit that he would present some details of his administration's preferred ideas next week. Details: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/03/AR2009120304731.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter