Highlights and recap of the 2010 Social Enterprise Summit in San Francisco
ZeroDivide elected to merge the powerful, popular phenomenon of Hip Hop and the connective thread of information technology to create a new philanthropic model. The report documents the evolution of ZeroDivide's Hip Hop and Social Justice Initiative.
View the digital report by clicking on the image above. We invite you to view the book and spread the word about our discovery process as we learned lessons critical to supporting emerging youth-centered organizational models.
You may also download Hip Hop expert and author Bakari Kitwana's report on the Hip Hop and Social Justice Initiative from a participant's perspective.
In an effort to gain a quick snapshot of the needs of our constituents and the services available to them, we created a brief survey on technology usage in community-based nonprofit organizations.
To view the results of the survey, please visit Survey Monkey
Social entrepreneurs are increasingly realizing that social impact and profits need not be in opposition, and are forming companies with a Double Bottom Line.
The video highlights a panel of social entrepreneurs and investors who addressed issues unique to social entrepreneurship as well as current trends and opportunities.
In the rapidly evolving world of social media, nonprofits are scrambling to find meaningful metrics for their social network outreach.
We know social media has two core metrics - influence and engagement. If we want to know how we can engage our communities, we need to understand what to measure.
ZeroDivide has evolved through several stages in its short life span. At the heart of its shift toward community enterprise is the underlying belief that underserved communities can generate their own capital—new or enhanced businesses, jobs and enterprises—to improve social and economic conditions.
Conducted by Blueprint Research and Design Inc., the paper provides an up-close look at what it takes to change how you do business and illustrates some of the larger trends currently shaping philanthropy. These trends include efforts to build sustainable enterprises, the push for greater accountability, the development of quantifiable measures of social impact, calls for increased transparency, and a move toward closer working relationships between donors and nonprofits.
Civic Engagement on the Move looks at how leading edge practitioners are using mobile media to engage citizens to solve problems, bridge differences and strengthen community. Mobile media technologies provide new tools for journalists, government and nonprofit agencies, civic organizers, elected officials, activists and ordinary citizens to inform, to reach out to others and to galvanize community action on a wide range of issues.
Civic Engagement on the Move, written by J.D. Lasica, details the hallmarks of successful mobile campaigns around civic engagement and provides case studies of several successful and emerging initiatives, including those that came out of the recent Aspen Institute Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement. Noted experts in the field add their insights on using mobile media, with a list of “Mobile Advocacy Dos and Don’ts” by Katrin Verclas of MobileActive and “A Mobile Media User’s Guide” by Jed Alpert, CEO of Mobile Commons.
"How can nonprofit organizations make better use of today’s rapidly changing information and communication technology? What obstacles do nonprofits face? This book presents research on special challenges facing nonprofits when investing in new technology." To purchase the book
