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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.
Hip Hop Congress (HCC) is one of the largest hip hop activist organizations in the country. The Hip Hop Congress provides the Hip Hop Generation and the Post Hip Hop Generation with the tools, resources and opportunities to make social, economic and political change on a local, regional and national level. Hip Hop Congress is the product of a merger of artists and students, music and community.
HHC will expand its current informal artist-driven web site into an enhanced social network. This network will connect disparate, localized, artists with local community activist organization who are looking for new ways to promote their social justice messages. The artists will produce socially conscious music that the organizations and the constituents they serve will purchase. This exchange will unite these two communities and make HHC's network a powerful agent for social change.
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Founded in 1989, Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) works to provide a critical voice to Latinas to develop their personal growth, prosperity, and political clout through innovative advocacy, education and leadership strategies and programs. With its newly launched HOPE.ACT.VOTE campaign, HOPE is utilizing an interactive advocacy web-portal aimed at mobilizing California’s 1.6 million Latina registered voters. HOPE is developing a variety of web-based advocacy tools that will increase the number of informed Latina voters, motivate them to become politically active and advocate on behalf of HOPE’s policy agenda, and increase the number of Latinas directly communicating with policymakers to impact state policy.
Just Think teaches young people media literacy skills for the 21st century. They have created and delivered in-school, after-school and online media arts and technology education locally, nationally, and internationally for thirteen years. In the past four year their programs have impacted over 2000 students nationwide. Just Think will develop an enterprise that will train teachers to use key concepts of media literacy and sell their innovative curricula online.
Little Tokyo Unplugged, a project of the Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), is a community wireless network that provides Wi-Fi Internet services to local residents, visitors, small businesses, and the nonprofit community. It contributes to the overall community and economic development of the neighborhood, helps promote Little Tokyo’s culture and history, and connects local residents to the Internet. Little Tokyo Unplugged will expand wireless broadband access in Little Tokyo and neighboring communities to become a community-based internet service provider with a tiered service model that will provide free wireless service to underserved residents and small businesses and a market rate premium wireless subscribers and web-based advertising. LTSC will reach out to residents and stakeholders with language, disability, age and income challenges in this distinct area of Los Angeles and will also target new middle and upper income residents who have the means to pay for premium-level bandwidth services.
Mural Music and Arts Program
Mural Music and Arts Program (MMAP) is an innovative arts organization that uses public art to promote social discourse and change social perceptions of low-income communities in California. In 2006, MMAP created an on-line virtual gallery which highlights mural images accompanied by the recorded voices of the youth artists that explain the rich histories behind each design. MMAP will expand its virtual gallery into an on-line marketplace, Critical Condition , which will sell and distribute community-based public art on-line. This will allow its approximately 450 youth artists to sell their work on-line.
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.
Southern California Library (SCL) is an independent, community-based, social justice library and resource center whose collections span the breadth of Los Angeles’ social and political movements. The Southern California Library is a people's library dedicated to documenting and preserving the histories of communities in struggle for justice and using our collections to address the challenges of the present so that all people have the ability, resources, and freedom to make their own histories.
For more than 40 years, SCL has collected, archived, and made available to the public over 400 one-of-a-kind, manuscripts, speeches, photographs, and films. SCL will offer access to its collections online through its creation of a web portal, Third Space. The portal will also provide local community members an opportunity to use SCL’s open wireless network and it will generate income for SCL through the use of a sophisticated web-based, e-commerce enterprise. These added features transforms SCL’s web portal from a static research instrument to an online community asset and venture.
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.
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