Robin Wu's blog

The Kaiser Family Foundation just released findings from the third in a series of national surveys about young people's media use.  The study found that young Americans, ages 8 to 18, spend more than seven and a half hours per day, except for the time in school, using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device.  This is an hour more per day than what was reported in the last study, conducted in 2004, and

Two days ago, Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez, President and CEO of Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties, along with ZeroDivide President and CEO Tessie Guillermo, and Robert Wexler, Principal at Adler & Colvin, spoke on a panel about the future of social enterprise organized by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Social Enterprise Alliance. 

Earlier this month, I attended the National Civic Summit in Minneapolis, a two-day event which was free and open to the public, with much involvement from Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie.  Since e-democracy and civic engagement are a core part of ZeroDivide's community investment portfolio, it was exciting to get a glimpse of some of the the new and existing tools in this area. 

Social networking is key to the success of the youth programs of ZeroDivide grantee REACH LA.  Ovahness Leaders and Girl2Girl (G2G) Leaders use social networking to communicate with their youth constituencies and promote their programs and activities.  For them, MySpace is still the networking site of choice.  The minute a decision is made about an event (such as the Ovahness Skate Party), it is posted on the Ovahness MySpace=2.0 site. One REACH LA staff person then posts the information and sends out messages to all the Ovahness friends.

New results from a poll of California youth ages 16 to 22 reveals a yearning for the traditional structures of marriage, parenthood, and religion as well as the desire for and benefits of a college education.  Past CTFC grantee New America Media commissioned Bendixen & Associates, in co-sponsorship with the University of California Office of the President, to conduct the first ever cell phone survey of the state's youth.  Since a growing number of American youth re