Cecilia Kang of The Washington Post interviewed ZeroDivide's Chief Community Investment Officer Laura Efurd and City of Chicago's Program Officer Matthew Guilford to discuss the BTOP grant they each received to promote the adoption of broadband technology.
The mission of the Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age is to make recommendations to the FCC regarding policies and practices that will further enhance the ability of minorities and women to participate in telecommunications and related industries.
At the June 15 meeting the Constitutional, Broadband and Media Issues working groups presented best practices recommendations. Members of the general public were invited to attend the meeting.
Immediately following the NTIA announcement that 1,400 of the 1,800 BTOP Round 1 applications were not selected, Frank Lamancusa sat down with ZeroDivide Chief Community Investment Officer Laura Efurd and Chief Strategy Officer Tim Wu to discuss implications of Round 1 and the upcoming Round 2 application process.
ZeroDivide wishes to share interviews with Staff and our Community Investment Partners on our Community Investment Model. In sharing our experiences with you, we hope you gain a better understanding of what's involved in creating community enterprises.
Ready, Set, Start - conducted by Blueprint Research and Design Inc., the paper provides an
up-close look at what it takes to change how you do business and
illustrates some of the larger trends currently shaping philanthropy.
Laura L. Efurd, ZeroDivide Vice President and Chief Community Investment Officer, discusses the foundation's experiencing the organizational culture shift necessary to support community enterprises.
Laura Efurd, ZeroDivide Chief Community Investment Officer, was a panel member on New Funding Models For Nonprofit Social Ventures at a recent SoCap Conference.
The session examined up-and-coming nonprofit social venture funding models and discussed opportunities for a social market that combines the best of traditional for-profit and non-profit funding and support for social ventures.
