Community

Congratulations to Jyesha Wren - one of the winners of ZeroDivide's Technology Haiku Contest. Jyesha's award generated a grant to Global Information Internship Program.

Produced by ZeroDivide grantee and Community Investment Partner, Change Agent Productions, Beyond Expectations chronicles the power and impact of after-school programs.

Academic success, social skills, training skills, youth leadership, and peer learnings are just some of the results gained from participation in these programs. To learn more, please view the video.

New Routes to Community Health is grounded in the belief that everyone in society benefits when immigrants get help to live healthy, productive lives. Through New Routes, immigrants also are building partnerships within the larger community, giving voice to their needs and enhancing their leadership and communication skills.

The ZeroDivide Fellows is a diverse group of community leaders building a community technology movement that benefits and improves the quality of life for underserved communities.

A short public service announcement on the digital divide.

A short explanation of social networking websites and why they are popular.

A simple story that illustrates the forces shaping social media.

Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC (pronounced bay-vac), is a nonprofit media arts center that was founded in 1976 by a coalition of media makers and activists who wanted to find alternative, civic-minded applications for a new technology - PortaPak video. BAVCs mission to bring increased cultural and economic participation to underserved communities through media, and believes in telling compelling stories is powerful for both media maker and audience.

Young voter participation has increased dramatically in over a decade. Much of the voter increase can be attributed to efforts on the part of young activists and organizers to galvanize the youth vote using the power and influence of hip hop, the pop youth culture of our time.

As a form of pop culture, hip hop has the potential to empower, educate, and unite people of all races.