ZeroDivide is a nonprofit, engaged/venture philanthropy foundation based in San Francisco, California. ZeroDivide invests in community enterprises that use technology to create earned-income businesses, policy change movements, and high impact programs within nonprofit community-based organizations. ZeroDivide’s investment partners leverage technology to benefit people in low-income and other underserved communities. Through these community, philanthropic and corporate partnerships, ZeroDivide helps nonprofit organizations find new revenue sources to become more self-sustaining. ZeroDivide has invested more than $50 million towards achieving this goal.
ZeroDivide has awarded more than 500 grants to over 400 community-based organizations in 41 of California's 58 counties.
Community investments
The foundation makes investments in three areas:
* Youth and Technology - investments promote changes in earned income potential for youth through media and technology skills training in afterschool programs in disadvantaged communities.
* Community Media - increases market demand for community news and media using new media tools in targeted underserved communities.
* E-Democracy - investments demonstrate wide adoption of effective, technology based civic engagement strategies and tactics by nonprofit organizations serving disadvantaged communities, and inspire new participants in advocacy, electoral politics and public services interaction.
Big Bet Investments
Big Bet Investments are multi-year ventures that have demonstrated potential and initial capacity for taking a technology based service/product/campaign to an underserved market, with revenue generating possibilities, and/or scalability and replication potential. They include;
•Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
•YMCA of Greater Long Beach Youth Institute (Change Agent)
•Youth Outlook(YO!)
•Youth Radio
History
Founded in 1998, ZeroDivide (formerly the Community Technology Foundation of California) is a public foundation created as the result of the advocacy work and coalition building of 134 community-based organizations during the merger of two telecommunications companies, SBC Communications and Pacific Bell.
In 2007 ZeroDivide adopted a social enterprise model of investment, which utilizes community, philanthropic and corporate partnerships to help nonprofit organizations find new revenue sources to become more self-sustaining. The new grantmaking approach broadened ZeroDivide's focus beyond community technology centers, toward organizations that have innovative service models and forward thinking leadership, who are devising innovative, self sustaining programs that empower disadvantaged communities, and have the potential for replicability in other communities.
ZeroDivide has awarded more than 500 grants to over 400 community-based organizations in 41 of California's 58 counties.
Community investments
The foundation makes investments in three areas:
* Youth and Technology - investments promote changes in earned income potential for youth through media and technology skills training in afterschool programs in disadvantaged communities.
* Community Media - increases market demand for community news and media using new media tools in targeted underserved communities.
* E-Democracy - investments demonstrate wide adoption of effective, technology based civic engagement strategies and tactics by nonprofit organizations serving disadvantaged communities, and inspire new participants in advocacy, electoral politics and public services interaction.
Big Bet Investments
Big Bet Investments are multi-year ventures that have demonstrated potential and initial capacity for taking a technology based service/product/campaign to an underserved market, with revenue generating possibilities, and/or scalability and replication potential. They include;
•Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
•YMCA of Greater Long Beach Youth Institute (Change Agent)
•Youth Outlook(YO!)
•Youth Radio
History
Founded in 1998, ZeroDivide (formerly the Community Technology Foundation of California) is a public foundation created as the result of the advocacy work and coalition building of 134 community-based organizations during the merger of two telecommunications companies, SBC Communications and Pacific Bell.
In 2007 ZeroDivide adopted a social enterprise model of investment, which utilizes community, philanthropic and corporate partnerships to help nonprofit organizations find new revenue sources to become more self-sustaining. The new grantmaking approach broadened ZeroDivide's focus beyond community technology centers, toward organizations that have innovative service models and forward thinking leadership, who are devising innovative, self sustaining programs that empower disadvantaged communities, and have the potential for replicability in other communities.
The Narrative is an Indie Pop band from Long Island, New York and New York City that was started in the summer of 2008.
Formation
The band first got together after Suzie Zeldin answered a Craigslist ad put up by Jesse Gabriel
Glenn Gamboa wrote in Newsday: "The band's Warped Tour shows will likely be their final tour for the year, as they get ready to work on the follow-up to their gorgeous debut The Narrative from last year."
In another Newsday article, Gamboa wrote: "In the year since their CMJ debut, The Narrative has released its eponymous debut, gone on national tours and heard its music used on several MTV shows. And now, The Narrative is ready to play the festival again, hoping the indie-popsters will continue their momentum."
Becky Bain writes in a "Popping Up" column on Idolator: "Their six-song album caught the attention of tons of music fans and MTV—so we can already imagine the good things to come when the band releases their debut 13-song LP this summer."
Members
* Jesse Gabriel (Guitar and Vocals)
* Suzie Zeldin (Keys and Vocals)
* Jay Scalchunes (Touring Drummer)
* Charlie Seich (Drums)( 2008-2011 )
* Ari Sadowitz (Guitarist Album 2012)
Discography
* Just Say Yes EP (2008)
* The Narrative (2010)
* Kickstarter, touring album (2011)
* Nothing Without You, EP tour (2011)
* B-Sides and Seaside (2012)
* Untitled, due for release in early 2013
Formation
The band first got together after Suzie Zeldin answered a Craigslist ad put up by Jesse Gabriel
Glenn Gamboa wrote in Newsday: "The band's Warped Tour shows will likely be their final tour for the year, as they get ready to work on the follow-up to their gorgeous debut The Narrative from last year."
In another Newsday article, Gamboa wrote: "In the year since their CMJ debut, The Narrative has released its eponymous debut, gone on national tours and heard its music used on several MTV shows. And now, The Narrative is ready to play the festival again, hoping the indie-popsters will continue their momentum."
Becky Bain writes in a "Popping Up" column on Idolator: "Their six-song album caught the attention of tons of music fans and MTV—so we can already imagine the good things to come when the band releases their debut 13-song LP this summer."
Members
* Jesse Gabriel (Guitar and Vocals)
* Suzie Zeldin (Keys and Vocals)
* Jay Scalchunes (Touring Drummer)
* Charlie Seich (Drums)( 2008-2011 )
* Ari Sadowitz (Guitarist Album 2012)
Discography
* Just Say Yes EP (2008)
* The Narrative (2010)
* Kickstarter, touring album (2011)
* Nothing Without You, EP tour (2011)
* B-Sides and Seaside (2012)
* Untitled, due for release in early 2013
The Cure is Now (www.thecureisnow.org) is a is an American, 501(c)3, nonprofit organization dedicated to developing personalized medical treatments for patients using emerging and advanced technology. The organization has gone national with its three programs: Awareness Campaigns, Educational Initiatives and Scientific Research.
History
The Cure is Now was founded by Annmarie Santiago in 2009. After losing people close to her due to various types of incurable diseases, AnnMarie dedicated her life to advancing medicine. Rather than targeting any particular disease, she set up a nonprofit organization that funds and supports research with a good chance of resulting in breakthrough treatments, technologies, inventions and cures. The Cure is Now is currently able to fundraise in 43 states, has launched it’s awareness campaigns and education initiatives and is supporting cutting edge research programs.
About The Cure is Now
The Cure is Now is a nonprofit group dedicated to disrupting the field of medical research. The group claims that university, governmental and industrial health systems inhibit an entrepreneurial spirit in the medical research sector. Leading scientists in emerging and advanced research have joined The Cure is Now's three science advisory boards. The Cure is Now also places value in extrapolating Moore’s law which is believed by many to result in accelerating returns that will transform the way research and technology translates into medicine.
The mission of The Cure is Now is accomplished through awareness campaigns, educational initiatives and research programs.
Awareness campaigns help make the general public aware of new treatments and new possibilities in medicine. Groups of volunteers managed by The Cure is Now communicate with thousands of people every day about new treatments that will be available in the near future. The public is also made aware of The Cure is Now’s mission and goals. One aspect of Awareness Campaigns is the “We Are The Cure” musical benefit album that has yet to be recorded and launched.
Educational Initiatives at The Cure is Now will focus on two main streams, an educational film and the publication of research.
Research Programs at The Cure is Now will be rolled out in a three phased plan:
:Phase 1 - Begin funding independent research projects and establishing a command and leadership center.
:Phase 2 - Build and staff small research labs. There will be four to start with: one in New York, one in Cambridge, MA, one in Silicon Valley and one overseas.
:Phase 3 - Build, staff and manage a world-class research complex. Their unique research methodology, groundbreaking technology and science will converge to produce novel treatments and medicines that will help people live longer, healthy lives.
The Cure is Now has a broad and ambitious goal of discovering cures for acquired, congenital and developmental diseases, they feel they can accomplish via the research methodology as laid out below:
:Curiosity Driven Research - The Cure is Now will fund scientific investigators and their teams who research aspects of disease pathology, biological systems, or biotechnological mechanisms. This type of research will yield enhanced understanding, deepened knowledge, unpredictable, long term, and widely-dispersed social and medical benefit.
:Applied Research - Research funded by The Cure is Now will lead to direct medical applications such as enhanced treatments, targeted gene therapy, technology-based solutions and more.
:Synergistic Research - This unique kind of research will be aimed at linking and connecting different kinds of science and technology. For example, how can stem-cell research be connected with brain-machine interface technology or how can nanotechnology be employed in Alzheimer’s research? The Cure is Now will explore these potentially beneficial intersections.
:Unknown-unknown Research - The Cure is Now understands that the kind of research it will support undoubtedly will lead to entirely new fields and forms of research. The Cure is Now will selectively support these as well.
Current projects
The Cure is Now is currently supporting regenerative medicine research at The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. They recently donated a $100,000.00 nSpec microscope to the institute.
The Cure is Now has assembled an advisory board of leaders in the field of cutting edge medicine, computer science, biotechnology, synthetic biology and others.
Plans to fund independent research projects and build research facilities are underway.
Criticisms
Sample text taken from the website
Why do we need The Cure Is Now?
The Cure Is Now is a science and technology advocacy and research organization. Applying new technology to a variety of medical needs is our goal. One of our many programs is to develop, adapt and converge disparate and emerging technologies in brilliant and innovative ways that result in breakthrough medical solutions. There is a social routine where unfortunate friends and relatives of disease stricken loved ones rally around a cause centered at “stamping out” or “beating a disease.” The Cure Is Now firmly believes that solutions surface is not simply the rallying around a particular disease because it has ‘suddenly’ become relevant in your life, but rather via the epiphany that comes with understanding how something called the Technological Singularity will yield new science that will give us the tools to eliminate many diseases.
We are not so bold as to think that we can solely tackle all of the diseases in the world, when thousands of such organizations have failed to do so collectively - it is precisely the opposite. We are the only medical research & advocacy organization with our specific programs that are developing the technologies that all of the other organizations will be able to utilize to achieve their individual missions. Diseases, as were small pox and polio for example, will eventually be eliminated because of science and technology. The Cure Is Now admires and respects the efforts of the multitude of non-governmental organizations and charities, which support and rally the victims and associates of whatever particular disease has affected their lives. We also don't believe there is an urgent need for yet another cancer or AIDS or similar type of charity pop up because the many thousands of organizations that are currently out there do more than enough to address the issues that they are focused on.
The Cure is Now does not believe in duplicating the efforts of these fine world-class institutions, that is why The Cure Is Now is an established leader in applying groundbreaking and “Singularity Technologies” to the medical field. No other organization matches our programs and operations, nor offers the unique solutions we do. This is not because others haven't wanted to find cures either. What makes The Cure is Now’s situation is different in that breakthrough technological opportunities are just now unfolding before us, and the next several years ahead of us will be the fulcrum where a fundamental paradigm-shift occurs and The Cure is Now will take advantage of this.
Imagine the world many hundred of years from now where mankind has become sufficiently advanced and a great number of human ailments and diseases have been eliminated via technology-based cures. Many of today’s epidemics like cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer’s disease will be treated with nothing more than a routine trip to the doctor’s office.
This website offers very clear, detailed and unambiguous information including specifics on our plan and the details of programs that will be utilized to achieve the goal in our mission statement the elimination of disease through technology. We Need The Cures, The Time Is Now, The Cure Is Now!
Board of directors
* Kasia Przechodzka
* Yusef Brodsky
* Lily Dupart
* Joseph Potente
* Grethel Hoozky
History
The Cure is Now was founded by Annmarie Santiago in 2009. After losing people close to her due to various types of incurable diseases, AnnMarie dedicated her life to advancing medicine. Rather than targeting any particular disease, she set up a nonprofit organization that funds and supports research with a good chance of resulting in breakthrough treatments, technologies, inventions and cures. The Cure is Now is currently able to fundraise in 43 states, has launched it’s awareness campaigns and education initiatives and is supporting cutting edge research programs.
About The Cure is Now
The Cure is Now is a nonprofit group dedicated to disrupting the field of medical research. The group claims that university, governmental and industrial health systems inhibit an entrepreneurial spirit in the medical research sector. Leading scientists in emerging and advanced research have joined The Cure is Now's three science advisory boards. The Cure is Now also places value in extrapolating Moore’s law which is believed by many to result in accelerating returns that will transform the way research and technology translates into medicine.
The mission of The Cure is Now is accomplished through awareness campaigns, educational initiatives and research programs.
Awareness campaigns help make the general public aware of new treatments and new possibilities in medicine. Groups of volunteers managed by The Cure is Now communicate with thousands of people every day about new treatments that will be available in the near future. The public is also made aware of The Cure is Now’s mission and goals. One aspect of Awareness Campaigns is the “We Are The Cure” musical benefit album that has yet to be recorded and launched.
Educational Initiatives at The Cure is Now will focus on two main streams, an educational film and the publication of research.
Research Programs at The Cure is Now will be rolled out in a three phased plan:
:Phase 1 - Begin funding independent research projects and establishing a command and leadership center.
:Phase 2 - Build and staff small research labs. There will be four to start with: one in New York, one in Cambridge, MA, one in Silicon Valley and one overseas.
:Phase 3 - Build, staff and manage a world-class research complex. Their unique research methodology, groundbreaking technology and science will converge to produce novel treatments and medicines that will help people live longer, healthy lives.
The Cure is Now has a broad and ambitious goal of discovering cures for acquired, congenital and developmental diseases, they feel they can accomplish via the research methodology as laid out below:
:Curiosity Driven Research - The Cure is Now will fund scientific investigators and their teams who research aspects of disease pathology, biological systems, or biotechnological mechanisms. This type of research will yield enhanced understanding, deepened knowledge, unpredictable, long term, and widely-dispersed social and medical benefit.
:Applied Research - Research funded by The Cure is Now will lead to direct medical applications such as enhanced treatments, targeted gene therapy, technology-based solutions and more.
:Synergistic Research - This unique kind of research will be aimed at linking and connecting different kinds of science and technology. For example, how can stem-cell research be connected with brain-machine interface technology or how can nanotechnology be employed in Alzheimer’s research? The Cure is Now will explore these potentially beneficial intersections.
:Unknown-unknown Research - The Cure is Now understands that the kind of research it will support undoubtedly will lead to entirely new fields and forms of research. The Cure is Now will selectively support these as well.
Current projects
The Cure is Now is currently supporting regenerative medicine research at The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. They recently donated a $100,000.00 nSpec microscope to the institute.
The Cure is Now has assembled an advisory board of leaders in the field of cutting edge medicine, computer science, biotechnology, synthetic biology and others.
Plans to fund independent research projects and build research facilities are underway.
Criticisms
Sample text taken from the website
Why do we need The Cure Is Now?
The Cure Is Now is a science and technology advocacy and research organization. Applying new technology to a variety of medical needs is our goal. One of our many programs is to develop, adapt and converge disparate and emerging technologies in brilliant and innovative ways that result in breakthrough medical solutions. There is a social routine where unfortunate friends and relatives of disease stricken loved ones rally around a cause centered at “stamping out” or “beating a disease.” The Cure Is Now firmly believes that solutions surface is not simply the rallying around a particular disease because it has ‘suddenly’ become relevant in your life, but rather via the epiphany that comes with understanding how something called the Technological Singularity will yield new science that will give us the tools to eliminate many diseases.
We are not so bold as to think that we can solely tackle all of the diseases in the world, when thousands of such organizations have failed to do so collectively - it is precisely the opposite. We are the only medical research & advocacy organization with our specific programs that are developing the technologies that all of the other organizations will be able to utilize to achieve their individual missions. Diseases, as were small pox and polio for example, will eventually be eliminated because of science and technology. The Cure Is Now admires and respects the efforts of the multitude of non-governmental organizations and charities, which support and rally the victims and associates of whatever particular disease has affected their lives. We also don't believe there is an urgent need for yet another cancer or AIDS or similar type of charity pop up because the many thousands of organizations that are currently out there do more than enough to address the issues that they are focused on.
The Cure is Now does not believe in duplicating the efforts of these fine world-class institutions, that is why The Cure Is Now is an established leader in applying groundbreaking and “Singularity Technologies” to the medical field. No other organization matches our programs and operations, nor offers the unique solutions we do. This is not because others haven't wanted to find cures either. What makes The Cure is Now’s situation is different in that breakthrough technological opportunities are just now unfolding before us, and the next several years ahead of us will be the fulcrum where a fundamental paradigm-shift occurs and The Cure is Now will take advantage of this.
Imagine the world many hundred of years from now where mankind has become sufficiently advanced and a great number of human ailments and diseases have been eliminated via technology-based cures. Many of today’s epidemics like cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer’s disease will be treated with nothing more than a routine trip to the doctor’s office.
This website offers very clear, detailed and unambiguous information including specifics on our plan and the details of programs that will be utilized to achieve the goal in our mission statement the elimination of disease through technology. We Need The Cures, The Time Is Now, The Cure Is Now!
Board of directors
* Kasia Przechodzka
* Yusef Brodsky
* Lily Dupart
* Joseph Potente
* Grethel Hoozky
Darrell Wayne "Gator" Ferguson (January 30, 1978 - August 8, 2006) was a convicted murderer executed by the state of Ohio. At the age of 28, he was the youngest inmate put to death in Ohio since 1962. He spent 2 years and 10 months on death row and had waived all appeals after his 2003 conviction for three counts of aggravated murder.
On December 26, 2001, Ferguson murdered 61-year-old Thomas S. King, Sr., at King's home on the east side of Dayton. Ferguson broke into King's home, grabbed a knife from the kitchen, and stabbed King, who was disabled and used crutches, repeatedly in the chest. He then stole televisions and stereos from King's home and sold the items to buy crack cocaine.
The next day, Ferguson murdered 68-year-old Arlie Fugate and his wife, 69-year-old Mae Fugate. Ferguson broke into the Fugate home and stabbed the couple with a knife from their kitchen. Ferguson then proceeded to stomp on their bodies with steel-toed boots. He later wrote a handwritten letter in which he admitted that he intentionally and maliciously murdered the victims.
Ferguson committed the murders after getting a two-day pass from a drug treatment program he had been ordered to attend following a burglary conviction. The victims let Ferguson into their homes in Dayton because they knew him. Ferguson's mother had been married to King's brother, and Ferguson's family had once lived near the Fugates.
Although his attorneys maintained that IQ tests revealed Ferguson was borderline mentally retarded, Ohio courts found him competent to stand trial for three murders under the standards set forth by the United States Supreme Court in Atkins v. Virginia. He taunted his victims' families at the sentencing phase of his trial, saying he took satisfaction and pleasure in killing their loved ones. He said, "I will never show any remorse, even on the day I die."
As he lay on the execution table in Lucasville, Ferguson, who said he worshipped Satan, told his parents he loved them and extended the index and little fingers on his outstretched left hand in a gesture known to some as il cornuto or the sign of the devil. He held the sign until he lapsed into unconsciousness. He was pronounced dead at 10:21 AM.
On December 26, 2001, Ferguson murdered 61-year-old Thomas S. King, Sr., at King's home on the east side of Dayton. Ferguson broke into King's home, grabbed a knife from the kitchen, and stabbed King, who was disabled and used crutches, repeatedly in the chest. He then stole televisions and stereos from King's home and sold the items to buy crack cocaine.
The next day, Ferguson murdered 68-year-old Arlie Fugate and his wife, 69-year-old Mae Fugate. Ferguson broke into the Fugate home and stabbed the couple with a knife from their kitchen. Ferguson then proceeded to stomp on their bodies with steel-toed boots. He later wrote a handwritten letter in which he admitted that he intentionally and maliciously murdered the victims.
Ferguson committed the murders after getting a two-day pass from a drug treatment program he had been ordered to attend following a burglary conviction. The victims let Ferguson into their homes in Dayton because they knew him. Ferguson's mother had been married to King's brother, and Ferguson's family had once lived near the Fugates.
Although his attorneys maintained that IQ tests revealed Ferguson was borderline mentally retarded, Ohio courts found him competent to stand trial for three murders under the standards set forth by the United States Supreme Court in Atkins v. Virginia. He taunted his victims' families at the sentencing phase of his trial, saying he took satisfaction and pleasure in killing their loved ones. He said, "I will never show any remorse, even on the day I die."
As he lay on the execution table in Lucasville, Ferguson, who said he worshipped Satan, told his parents he loved them and extended the index and little fingers on his outstretched left hand in a gesture known to some as il cornuto or the sign of the devil. He held the sign until he lapsed into unconsciousness. He was pronounced dead at 10:21 AM.