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TechSF Celebrates First Tech Apprenticeship Placement
 TechSF Celebrates Its First Tech Apprenticeship Placement! In the Fall of 2015, Mayor Ed Lee announced a Department of Labor (DOL) grant awarded to the City of San Francisco to launch the TechSF Apprenticeship Learning Accelerator to offer residents pre-apprenticeships and apprenticeships within the tech sector. BAVC Media and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development are pleased to announce that the first Apprentice in this program has been placed at local tech company, Zendesk. Zendesk, who builds software for better customer relationships, seized the opportunity to host the inaugural TechSF Apprenticeship. Located on Market Street, the company’s commitment [...]
BAVC Media Next Gen at the White House!
Today, BAVC Media celebrates! It is with incredible pride that I share some great news: BAVC Media Next Gen programs – programs that would not exist without our partners and contributors from our many communities – are today being honored by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House. Why? BAVC Media’s youth program is being recognized for its effectiveness in promoting learning and life skills and receiving the 2016 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, the nation’s highest honor for youth programs! The award recognizes the country’s best after-school and out-of-school-time creative youth development programs for using engagement [...]
FIRST LADY TO RECOGNIZE BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION YOUTH PROGRAMS – NEXT GEN – AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Presented with nation’s highest honor for creative youth development programs SAN FRANCISCO, CA, November 11, 2016 – In a few days, Nicole Rivera, 18, of San Francisco, CA will achieve one of many dreams. She will be at the White House on November 15 to receive an award from First Lady Michelle Obama on behalf of Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) Next Gen program, which was recognized for its effectiveness in promoting learning and life skills in young people by engaging them in creative youth development programs. The after-school program received the 2016 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program [...]
The imperfect storm
The day after the election, students at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism requested a debrief with their fellow students and faculty. As an alum, I asked to attend. The students expressed shock, fear, outrage, and concern about their chosen profession. Where had journalism gone wrong, and where should they go from here? Does it matter either way? My professional colleagues, many of them veterans, are asking the same questions. There is no doubt that in its quest for survival and relevance, legacy media fell prey to the president elect’s manipulations of the press, and helped catapult him to his [...]
Ted Egan and BAVC Media discuss the future of freelance work in the Bay Area
 What do the fields of construction, advertising, and ride-sharing have in common? In the San Francisco Bay Area, all these industries employ freelancers whose numbers keep growing. How can our local employers support freelance workers in ways that sustain their employment and help strengthen the Bay Area’s workforce in a rapidly changing working economy? At BAVC Media, we believe that storytelling is an important tool for learning and social change so we gathered together lead employers from construction, advertising, and ride-sharing for a shared conversation with Ted Egan, the Chief Economist for the City of San Francisco. We swapped [...]
BAY AREA VIDEO COALITION CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF SUPPORTING MEDIA MAKERS OF EVERY AGE AND DEMOGRAPHIC IN SAN FRANCISCO
Event will honor those who made the organization and its programs possible. Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is celebrating its 40th anniversary by honoring founding members, donors, and visionaries who helped launch and sustain the organization over its 40 years. At the festive dinner, which is open to the public, BAVC Media will also make two exciting announcements about the organization’s future.For four decades, BAVC Media has trained low-income youth and adults eager to learn new technologies, provided connections to employers and jobs, supported documentary film creation and distribution for artists that have gone on to win Emmys and [...]
Summer with Next Gen
Written by Sarah Gonzalez and Nicole Wisler At BAVC Media, we believe it is crucial that the young people we serve have the opportunity to tell their stories in a way that makes a concrete impact on the larger community. As such, this summer, BAVC Media students had the opportunity to put the industry-standard production skills and understanding of social justice frameworks, honed through our project-based curriculum during the school year, to work in partnership with two wonderful organizations: The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. These summer Social Action Projects were a capstone to the [...]
