Programs

  • Program 1 [2020]

    BRIDGEGOOD's online platform bridgegood.com connects low income under-resourced design students with real-world experience and design opportunities generated by businesses and leading tech companies. The big idea started with two statistics: 1 that 70% of students in California's community colleges dropped out prior to graduation and 2 that upwards of 80% of local mom-and-pop businesses failed primarily due to a lack of technology and digital marketing know-how recognizing that professional opportunities today favor the digitally literate and are increasingly found through the gig economy. BRIDGEGOOD is addressing the problem head-on with their Jack London Square community studio offering social branding digital marketing and design services to companies in need. These projects are completed with local talent including Community College design students and overseen by industry mentors. Our programs offer under-resourced designers ages 18+ the opportunity to acquire essential job-training skills in the competitive graphic and visual design job market. Participants who enroll in our programs are under-resourced diverse students across Northern California.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
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    $116.5K

  • Program 2 [2020]

    Inspire Oakland provides Community College design students with the career-related resources needed to overcome barriers to economic success. Over 12-months the program provides 800 Northern California students ages 18 to 34 with a robust career readiness program that provides design training resume building and professional development. Inspire Oakland is designed as a 12-module Workforce program followed by a Citywide marketing campaign competition that helps grow the Entrepreneurship skills for youth of color. Inspire Oakland supports the existing graphic design programs of participating schools up to 50 annually by providing vital professional development and essential digital literacy skill-building sessions that lead to design students economic success and internship placement. In addition to hard skill development e.g. learning Adobe Photoshop students receive career counseling and mock interviews from Tech and business professionals. Inspire Oakland students also are able to participate in a design challenge during which they create billboards and new media to answer the question What about Oakland inspires you? The top 20 students receive paid internship opportunities with the top six students receiving commercial media placement receiving approximately 58-million impressions locally and worldwide.
    Geographies
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
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    $27.6K

  • Program 3 [2020]

    Inspiration Awards is BRIDGEGOOD's annual Gala celebrating leadership positive impact and the lives changed through its community programs. In addition to celebrating our students graduates volunteers and Board of Directors Inspiration Awards recognizes three Bay Area changemakers who have contributed to our local community through Innovation Technology Business and Education. Previous honorees include socially-minded CEOs and top directors from Google Amazon Golden State Warriors Laney College Cal State East Bay Berkeley City College The Clorox Company Twitter and Disney to name a few. Founded July 31 2009 BRIDGEGOOD has impacted the lives of over 7,200 students with a $6.4-million return on investment through job training career exposure and professional opportunities in design and tech. We are thrilled to celebrate leadership inspiration and authenticity within our community.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $16.9K