Grantees

ZeroDivide has invested almost $50 million to increase economic opportunities (workforce readiness, education, health, financial literacy) and civic engagement in underserved communities through technology access, training, and content production.

We have awarded more than 502 grants to 500 community-based organizations, through a variety of initiatives: from our Digital Storytelling and Hip Hop Initiatives, to our Community Enterprise Investments.

We are not currently accepting unsolicited proposals for support. If you would like us to have your organizational information on file, you may send a one-page summary of programs and key information to info@zerodivide.org.

Community Enterprises

BTOP Grantees

Technology Integration

Community Leadership Project
Levi Strauss Foundation Pioneers in Justice
Mozilla

Community Enterprise Grantees

ZeroDivide invests directly in start-up community enterprises that utilize technology to create earned-income businesses, policy change movements, and/or unique high impact programs within nonprofit community-based organizations.

For the organizations in our portfolio, we do more than provide funding. By leveraging community, philanthropic and corporate partnerships, we help organizations become more self-sustaining and achieve greater levels of impact. By supporting democratic activities and building community assets, we encourage our grantees to increase economic opportunity and enhance civic engagement, leading to healthier and more vibrant communities.

These organizations are:

Change Agent Productions

The Center for Multicultural Cooperation

San Diego Futures Foundation

Women's Audio Mission (WAM)

Youth Radio

BTOP Grantees

ZeroDivide was awarded $2,070,399 in two grants from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). As part of the Federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), we are in the implementation stage of two programs focused on broadband adoption.

Generation ZeroDivide (Gen ZD)

ZeroDivide is creating a new generation of youth technology users within underserved communities in California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington states. The subrecipient grantees in the program are:

Access Humboldt

Akaku: Maui Community Television

Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Fe (BGCSF)

Community Media Access Partnership (CMAP)

Portland Community Media (PCM)

Reel Grrls

Spy Hop Productions

Tribal Digital Village Broadband Adoption Program

Through the “Tribal Digital Village Broadband Adoption Program,” ZeroDivide will work with Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association (SCTCA) is implementing a four-prong broadband adoption strategy that encompasses an outreach and public awareness campaign; basic digital literacy skills training; advanced content creation training; and sustainability. SCTCA encompasses the reservations of 19 federally recognized tribes, primarily located in San Diego County, California, and reaching from southern Riverside County southward 150 miles to the US-Mexico border.

Technology Integration

Community Leadership Project

ZeroDivide is working to strengthen the technology capacity of 100 minority-led, community-based organizations in the Bay Area, Central Coast and Central Valley as part of the Community Leadership Project, a project of the Hewlett, Irvine and Packard foundations. Through this program, ZeroDivide is conducting organizational technology assessments, developing strategic technology plans, implementing technology solutions, joint training and peer learning sessions, and ongoing support.

ZeroDivide’s role in the Community Leadership Project involves providing the following 20 organizations with an in-depth technology assessment, technology plan development, and technology solution and implementation support. In addition, the selected organizations were awarded mini-grants of $5,000 to support their technology capacity building efforts.

These organizations are:

3rd i South Asian Independent Film
Californians for Pesticide Reform
California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
California Indian Environmental Alliance
Caminos Del Arte
Central Coast Center for Independent Living
Dolores Huerta Foundation
El Teatro de la Tierra
Multicultural Institute
Kings Regional Traditional Folk Arts
Monterey County Rape Crisis Center
National Coalition Building Institute of Monterey County
Purple Moon Dance Project
Resources for Independence Central Valley
Second Chance Youth Program
Somali Community Services
St. Vincent de Paul Center, Hanford
Stone Soup Fresno
United Farm Workers Foundation
West Fresno Health Care Coalition, Inc.

Levi Strauss Foundation Pioneers in Justice

ZeroDivide is working with a group of new generation San Francisco-based social justice leaders, selected by the Levi Strauss Foundation. Highly motivated to leverage social media, these key influencers, understand the value of enabling their organizations to expand their reach and achieve their mission. ZeroDivide is providing strategic advice on program design and implementation, and conducting a technology/social media capacity building program for each organization.

These organizations are:

ACLU of Northern California

Asian Law Caucus

Chinese for Affirmative Action

Equal Rights Advocates

Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights