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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.

Youth Radio is an award winning nationally recognized leader in Youth Media content creation and distribution. They provide intensive, free, after school media training and broadcast journalism education to over 400 low-income and youth of color annually.

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!) 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.

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.

Geoff Yang is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to help build companies that define industries and shape the future. Geoff emphasizes investments in consumer media and infrastructure. His media and advertising investments include Ask Jeeves, MySpace and TiVo.