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ZeroDivide grantee the Center for Multicultural Cooperation (CMC), based in Fresno, recently garnered local television news coverage for its FresYes program.  FresYes is a workforce development initiative that provides students from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods an opportunity to earn income as Youth Media Consultants

Congratulations to ZFellow Marc Levine who won election to the City Council in his home town of San Rafael, California yesterday.  He was elected to one of two open seats on the Council with 27% of the vote.  Marc was a member of Class II of the ZeroDivide Fellowship and currently serves as Executive Director of ABDF.org, an on-the-ground relief provider for Tsunami victims in war-torn Sri Lanka.  As part of the ZeroDivide Fellowship, Marc worked on a Strategic Impact Project which supported the development and innovative use of Web 2.0 tools and
technology by students from underserve

Courtesy of ZFellow Sean McLaughlin and the Eureka Times-Standard:

Access Humboldt
was represented in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Wednesday to receive the
“Community Broadband Wireless Network of the Year” Award for the
Digital Redwoods initiative and to promote “A Public Interest Internet
Agenda.”

ZeroDivide grantee BAVC, is co-hosting VideoCamp SF, a two-day event on October 16 and 17, designed to train and grow the local online video community at a reasonable price.

The Best Practices in Online Video sessions, have an Advocate Track designed to train and develop people in using online video for cause-related purposes.

Aspiration is pleased to announce our Fall 2009 ZeroDivide eAdvocacy
Trainings, “Best Practices for High-Impact eAdvocacy”. Taking place in
Los Angeles and San Francisco, these trainings will cover best
practices in online campaigning, social media, and mobile activism. We
invite ZeroDivide grantees and network members to join us for these
interactive, outcome-oriented trainings.

On May 30th of this year, a group of fifteen bright-eyed L.A. students were honored as URBAN TxT's inaugural graduating class. URBAN Teens Xploring Technology (URBAN TxT) is an innovative after school program helping inner-city youth develop leadership and other skills through the use of technology. The program is sponsored by ZeroDivide, a San Francisco based organization that assists low-income communities empower themselves through the use of technology and is the brainchild of Oscar Menjivar -- himself a graduate of Jordan High School and Cal Poly Pomona.

New Routes’ project “Abriendo Las Cajas” produces DVD of stories to bring attention to violence in Oakland’s Hispanic Community

MADISON, WI, June 18, 2009 – The New Routes to Community Health project Abriendo Las Cajas (Opening Boxes) has released a DVD compilation of 20 digital short stories to draw attention to violence in the Hispanic community in Oakland, California. The stories are told by Mexican adults, Latin American immigrants and Latino youth who live in the Fruitvale District.

YouTube is now offering channel services for non-profits.  This allows non-profits to create an account on the site which will allow for unlimited content uploading times, waiving the 10 minute maximum that is enforced on normal acccounts.  To qualify, an organization must be a registered 501(c)3 in the US.  Additional benefits include:

ZeroDivide along with partners BAVC and LaClinica are currently the feaured grantee on the New Routes website for their collaboration on the Abriendo Las Cajas (Opening Boxes) project as part of the Digital Storytelling Initiative. 

http://www.newroutes.org/ 

ZFellow Camille Ramani of Upwardly Global has teamed up with Aspiration to host a GIS brainstorming session as part of her SIP project.

When: Thursday, April 26, 2007, 4-7pm

Where: Aspiration Office

1370 Mission St, 4th Floor, San Francisco CA
(415) 839-6456