Summer 2008 Community Enterprise Newsletter

		*Community Enterprise* *Newsletter*
	2008
Events CTIA Wireless I.T & Entertainment Sept 9-12, 2008 San Francisco Social Capital Markets: Conference San Francisco, October 13-16, 2008 Funding and Funding Flows Xigi (pronounced Ziggy) Net: Tracking Capital Investments for good. Check out where for profit and nonprofit investments are being made in the social sector. Check out their social capital index and a link to media-specific investments. Adobe Youth Voices Grants Big Bets Award Programs The Social Venture Network (SVN) Innovation Awards is looking for America's top social entrepreneurs. The program supports socially responsible business people and nonprofit leaders by providing them access to the resources to help develop their ideas. www.svn.org/awards	Inaugural Newsletter Welcome to our very first edition of the ZeroDivide Community Enterprise newsletter. This newsletter is designed to provide our investment partners (Big Bets and Pipelines) with information and resources to help build a successful community enterprise. What do we mean by Community Enterprise? Social enterprise is a more common term referring to social mission driven organizations which trade in goods or services for a social purpose. A Community Enterprise is a type of social enterprise that is created and operated by the communities it serves. It often begins with a nonprofit organization that is already using technology to achieve its social mission. Our investment helps to create an enterprise within that nonprofit to achieve a new or expanded revenue source to support its social mission. Through this ground-up approach we invest in the ideas, talents, and know-how of underserved populations to build economically stable and civically engaged communities. We hope you find the information in this newsletter useful. We encourage you to send us comments and suggestions to make this valuable for you. Feel free to suggest additional resources for the group. The easiest way to do that is by posting on our ZeroDivide Facebook Group. If you are not already a member of the Facebook group, please email brian@zerodivide.org to join. Big Bet Recap Below is a summary of the Big Bets and their projects. BAVC: Fiber leasing and mobile application developer training Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) is a nonprofit media arts center launched in 1976 as a way to make emerging video technology accessible to independent mediamakers. BAVC’s enterprise will develop and foster community technology innovation by providing nonprofits and independent media makers with access to a managed high-speed fiber network, and supporting a Community Innovation Lab. This Lab will house the Nonprofit Institute for New Media Applications, which will foster Technology R & D for the nonprofit sector. As a first project of the new Institute, BAVC will develop BUMP Mobile as a mobile tool in which Institute participants can disseminate content to their communities. Change Agent Productions: Video production house & media lab consultancy/trainer YMCA of Greater Long Beach Youth Institute is an intensive year-round program that uses digital and social media technology training to promote positive youth development and enhanced academic success and career readiness of low-income, culturally diverse, urban high school students. Their community enterprise, Change Agent Productions, is a nonprofit production house offering business and entrepreneurial opportunities to low-income, inner-city high school and college-age youth. Youth develop professional technology and social skills while gaining corporate and workplace experience. Youth Outlook (YO! Biz): Youth media content distribution & advertising Youth Outlook (YO!), the youth division of New America Media, produces and distributes youth media content locally and nationally. YO! is the umbrella organization that houses YO!TV, YO!Radio, and four magazines (Debuge, The Beat Within, SNAG, SPRAWL). YO! also podcasts and streams youth content directly from its website, www.youthoutlook.org. YO! trains and employs youth ages 14-25 in all aspects of its programs. YO!’s enterprise will provide bundled advertising access on all its platforms to “old and new” media and advertising companies. They will create and distribute youth generated content that influences opinions and moves policies. Youth Radio International: Youth media content creator, aggregator, and distributor Youth Radio’s enterprise distributes content, generates advertising revenue from distribution and sells sponsorship for that content. Youth Radio produces and filters media content across the most popular technology platforms used today by youth. Youth Radio’s venture, Youth Media Start-Up (YMSU), sells advertising space on its website. They will partner with popular online news outlets (e.g., MSN, Yahoo, New York Times, Time) in exchange for shares of the ad revenue generated by that content. YMSU’s converged media scope allows students to repurpose their versatile stories across media forms and tailor them for niche audiences and contexts, from public and commercial broadcasts to downloadable podcasts to quirky and satirical vodcasts offering unexpected cultural commentaries on issues of the day.	What particular challenges are you facing with your venture? Post your thoughts on the ZeroDivide Facebook Group. Resources A list of free and paid Social Enterprise, legal, marketing, branding, consulting services and funding for your nonprofit venture. Making your pitch: See how top technology entrepreneurs are making their pitches through these 60 second videos at TechCrunch’s Elevator Pitch. Sustayne’s Value Proposition Generator Pipelines
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