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Center for Multicultural Cooperation Throughout the Central Valley, the Center for Multicultural Cooperation promotes educational programs for social and civic responsibility, service learning, media, art, history and multicultural cooperation. The Fresno Youth Empowerment Studio (FresYES) will engage underserved youth by training them to be skillful producers of culturally relevant media and "digital social entrepreneurs". FresYES students will explore the use of web-based social media, mobile and wireless applications to promote greater civic participation, support Community-Based Organizations and develop community enterprises.
Founded in 2000, Craigslist Foundation creates community in the nonprofit arena by 'helping people help', regardless of cause or sector. Their venture, “Project Entry Point,” is a social networking/resource website to benefit the nonprofit community and the individuals they serve. The overall goal of the Craigslist Foundation is to connect nonprofit leaders and compassionate citizens to the resources they need to fulfill their social impact goals. Project Entry Point is designed to enhance this effort with an on-line resource guide modeled on the existing Craigslist site.
Pasadena City College in collaboration with Bakari Kitwana created Rap Sessions ?a national conversation on Hip Hop and Race. Rap Sessions is a multiracial panel of Hip hop experts who tour California and the nation to engage youth in candid, compelling conversations about race, gender, and power. These “town hall” styled meetings have expanded our nation’s current understanding of race and youth culture.
REACH LA is a youth-driven organization committed to educating, motivating, and mobilizing urban youth to improve their lives and communities. Its mission is to train low-income youth of color from Metropolitan Los Angeles and empower them with skills to develop innovative program initiatives that lead to social change in their own peer community. REACH LA will strengthen and expand their Department of Social Enterprise for Youth by incorporating digital media arts and technology in the production and marketing of youth-produced products and services. The enterprise goals are to increase business and personal skills for low-income youth of color and to gain an ongoing source of unrestricted revenue to the organization.
San Diego Futures Foundation works to establish accessibility to information technology resources, increase computer literacy, and provide training to enable a broader range of citizens to cross the digital divide. The WhizKidz venture will train at-risk young adults (18-24 yrs old) to develop marketable technical, entrepreneurial, and business skills while teaching small business owners in the San Diego City Heights area to leverage technology to improve productivity and increase revenue.
The Opportunity Agenda, through an integrated strategy of communications, research, and advocacy, works with social justice organizations and leaders to connect with core American values and expand the constituency for opportunity in the United States.
The Opportunity Agenda will integrate Web 2.0 advocacy tools in California’s health care reform efforts by creating an interactive website that will geographically illustrate racial, socioeconomic and geographic disparities in health care while promoting solutions and engaging affected communities, policymakers and others in acting on those solutions.
Women's Audio Mission (WAM) is a women-run, nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of women in the recording arts. In a field where women are historically underrepresented, WAM seeks to create an environment that will encourage and enable the aspirations of women in the recording arts. WAM will use video technology to produce on-demand learning units, live and interactive lectures, and member meetings to reach low-income women throughout California. It will take advantage of social media and video streaming technology and test Second Life as a means of delivering educational content.