ZeroDivide Receives Stimulus Funding to Foster New Generation of Technology Adopters in Underserved Youth and Tribal Communities
ZeroDivide was awarded $2,070,399 in two grants from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Vice-President Joe Biden announced the grants as part of 94 Recovery Act investments in federal broadband projects in 37 states.
Click on the following radio interviews to hear ZeroDivide's Chief Community Investment Officer Laura Efurd comment on what the funds mean for communities:
KQED's radio broadcast on California Broadband Projects Get Stimulus Dollars
KPLU's report on Stimulus Money Funds Film Classes for Girls
ZeroDivide Receives Stimulus Funding to Foster New Generation of Youth Technology Adopters in Underserved Communities
August 18, 2010 San Francisco, California — ZeroDivide was awarded $1,384,242 by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to create a new generation of youth technology users within underserved communities in California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington states.
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.
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
Produced by ZeroDivide grantee and Community Investment Partner, Change Agent Productions, Beyond Expectations chronicles the power and impact of after-school programs.
Academic success, social skills, training skills, youth leadership, and peer learnings are just some of the results gained from participation in these programs. To learn more, please view the video.
Youth Radio is an award winning nationally recognized leader in Youth Media content creation and distribution. They provide intensive, free, after school media training and broadcast journalism education to over 400 low-income and youth of color annually.
Change Agent Productions, is a nonprofit production house offering business and entrepreneurial opportunities to low-income, inner-city high school and college-age youth. Youth develop professional technology and social skills while gaining corporate and workplace experience.
Youth Outlook,(YO!) the youth division of New America Media, produces and distributes youth media content locally and nationally. YO! is the umbrella organization that houses YO!TV, YO!Radio, and four magazines (Debuge, The Beat Within, SNAG, SPRAWL). YO! also podcasts and streams youth content directly from its website, www.youthoutlook.org.
Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC (pronounced bay-vac), is a nonprofit media arts center that was founded in 1976 by a coalition of media makers and activists who wanted to find alternative, civic-minded applications for a new technology - PortaPak video. BAVCs mission to bring increased cultural and economic participation to underserved communities through media, and believes in telling compelling stories is powerful for both media maker and audience.
