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Last week, I had the opportunity to bring one of our new board members on a site visit of Women's Audio Mission (WAM), a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of women in music production and the performing arts...

On October 20th, ZeroDivide participated in a creative conversation of panelists hosted by the Foundation Center-San Francisco and presented in partnership with the Emerging Arts Professionals of the San Francisco Bay Area.

It's Friday evening in San Francisco, but not too late to blog about City Year, an education focused Americorps organization that brings together young adults from diverse backgrounds for a year of full-time service committed to keeping students in school and on track to graduation.  This month, 2,000 Corps Members began training and will be working with students in underserved schools in 22 cities across the US.  The three key areas they will be focusing their attention on are: attendance, behavior, and course performance in math and English.

Matthew Rantanen, Director of the Southern California Tribal Digital Village and board member of Native Public Media, has been appointed to the Federal Communications Commission's Native Nations Broadband Task Force.  ZeroDivide, in partnership with Tribal Digital Village, is utilizing federal stimulus funding to increase broadband adoption in Native American tribal communities.  This funding will quadruple broadband adoption rates within the 19 Native American reservations that encompass the Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association.  Current broadband adoption rates for Ameri

Sunday's Long Beach Press-Telegram featured an enthusiastic editorial about the YMCA Youth Institute and Change Agent Productions, a community enterprise funded by ZeroDivide.  Change Agent Productions is a social enterprise of digital media artists who work alongside urban youth to carry out video productions, graphic design projects and digital media trainings.  It provides youth and workforce development opportunities in challenging communities. 

San Diego Futures Foundation, a grantee of ZeroDivide, recently won the Social Enterprise Academy and Venture Competition in San Diego and was awarded $2,500 and a marketing services package valued at $12,500.  Working with established nonprofits looking to grow, the San Diego Social Enterprise and Venture Competition trained and mentored fourteen organizations on how to be more effective at expanding earned income opportunities and provided a platform to present their ventures to potential investors.

During former President Bill Clinton's Wednesday night keynote at Dreamforce, he discussed the challenges of globalization and our growing interdependence and spoke about both the challenges and opportunities currently facing Haiti. And, on Tuesday, ZeroDivide grantee Inveneo was awarded a grant of $742,688 from the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund to accelerate the development of a wireless broadband Internet network in six rural regions across Haiti.  

Since you already know that ZeroDivide was awarded Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) funding last week for our Generation ZD Digital Literacy Program, it's time to talk about the seven great organizations we are partnering with in this effort.  Let's build in a little western states geography lesson as well and start from Hawaii, cross the ocean to the Pacific Northwest, go southbound, and then move slightly eastward.