Tessie Guillermo's blog

Today, I began my very first Independent Sector conference experience by attending the Monday morning plenary, "Conversation with a Sector Leader." The session featured Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), being interviewed by Stephanie Strom of the New York Times.

Earlier this week I went on an 'Innovation Safari', organized by the Innovation Learning Network for participants in its Autumn membership meeting in the SF Bay Area. Co-sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, the 150 participants at this meeting were invited to "think creatively about the Connected Care team and the digital patient of the future."

ZeroDivide was on-site today for “America’s Digital Inclusion Summit," where the FCC released six key recommendations to expand broadband adoption, excerpted from the much-anticipated and historic National Broadband Plan. After months of intensive public input, the full plan will be released on March 17th.

Text4baby is a free service that sends health tips in the form of text
messages to registered users timed to match with mom's pregnancy stage
and later, baby's age.

While ZD as a foundation doesn't fund social services directly, many of our grantees and partners are being devastated by the state budget deficit.