Community Investment Portfolio

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ZeroDivide invests in community enterprises that utilize technology to create earned-income businesses, policy change movements, and/or unique high impact programs within nonprofit community-based organizations.

Our community investment portfolio consists of organizations that:

• Demonstrate innovative, transformative and entrepreneurial thinking
• Develop services or applications employing wireless, mobile or new media technology
• Provide choices for emerging consumer markets in disadvantaged communities
• Improve economic conditions and civic participation for the disenfranchised

For the organizations in our portfolio, we do more than provide funding. By leveraging community, philanthropic and corporate partnerships, we help organizations become more self-sustaining and achieve greater levels of impact. By supporting democratic activities and building community assets, we encourage our grantees to increase economic opportunity and enhance civic engagement, leading to healthier and more vibrant communities.  

ZeroDivide Investments fall into two categories:

Pipeline Investments are new or seed ventures seeking to test a new or existing technology application, product or service within a specific market. Pipeline investments are intended to mature into opportunities for Big Bet investments within a 12 to 18 month timeframe. Organizations may submit a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) at any time to be considered for a Pipeline Investment.

Big Bet Investments

Big Bet Investments are multi-year ventures that have demonstrated potential and initial capacity for taking a technology based service/product/campaign to an underserved market, with revenue generating possibilities, and/or scalability and replication potential.

From our Pipeline portfolio, we select community investments that are ready to establish a community enterprise and assist them in developing a business model and broader penetration in the target market supported. For these community investments, we provide multi-year funding for up to 36 months. Therefore, organizations must be invited by ZeroDivide to submit a proposal for a Big Bet Investment.