IMPACT2015 Building on Community Impact

IMPAC T2015

Building on Community Impact

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A Governance Framework and Community Action Model

National Minority Technology Council

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IMPACT 2015 “Nothing can impact human dignity more than love and purpose. Our joint opportunity to choose cannot be mitigated by circumstance in this new information age.”

-Karl Cureton, Founder & Chairman National Minority Technology Council

MARCH EVENTS

Karl Cureton, NMTC Founder and Chairman(left), and Lorne Joseph, Managing Director eGRC.COM and NMTC Chief Risk Officer Shown here at NMTC’s NY District Kick-Off Meeting - Nov 2014

Building a Nation of Producers™ is more than a slogan or tag line. It is a battle cry for victory over our self-imposed oppression. It is our joint wake up alarm.

We must stop hitting the snooze button on prosperity and we must pick ourselves up and get to work. For those fortunate enough to have escaped the despair of poverty, either by birthright or hard work, we must, as a unified body, support those who are willing to reach.

Our ability to generate community will rest with our capacity to create scalable solutions that honor and respect our individual capacity to choose. We can embrace change, build on the success born from our new economy, and bravely adopt new ideas that encourage change and our global options for prosperity.

As an organization the National Minority Technology Council represents one of the fastest growing industries in the US and perhaps the world. The minority technology industry’s growth will be increased through our industry research and District focus on workforce readiness. Membership with the Council ensures access to opportunity, technical resources and strategic collaboration with government, education, community, employers, and industry leadership. © Copyright 2015, National Minority Technology Council, All rights reserved.

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The National Minority Technology Council’s strategic imperatives drive our community impact agenda. As we bridge our resource networks towards changing lives, while inspiring community impact, industry has an opportunity for growth.

The National Minority Technology Council industry we work to change lives by creating (NMTC) is proud to present its findings sustainable improvements in education, relating to community impact and creating jobs by generating a more robust measurement, which is the culmination of a contracting environment for our members, comprehensive engagement process resulting in economic prosperity for the communities where we work and serve. spanning the last five years. Now that over fifteen years has passed since it’s founding, NMTC is committed to NMTC has earned a Parent Involvement Board (PIB) creating long-lasting reputation as a respected social change by and business minded addressing the From Cradle to Career trade association. Our underlying causes of tradition of addressing barriers to quality Our PIB initiative involves the common business education, financial the creation of individual Benefit interest of the Minority stability and healthy Corps to support efforts to better Technology Industry has living for our owners, involve parents at Title I Public extended to the employees, and the Schools. Local PIBs provide industry communities from which communities we serve. resources, governance, and CTE many owners have come Our vision for the next curriculum to neighborhoods of need. from or now reside. www.parentinvolvementboard.org ten years is to create We actively engage the positive, sustainable brightest minds across the country, and now change by keeping students on track to recently around the world, to solve our career ready graduation, helping families most difficult problems. Our focus on the achieve lifestyle instead of just stability, urban centers across the US allows our and providing tools to lead a healthy and industry the opportunity to bring relevance engaged life. This vision is the basis of our "Building on Community Impact " agenda. to our local education systems. As an ™

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IMPACT2015 IMPACT2015 is our call to action regarding our fact-driven, creative and sustainable solutions to our community's most pressing social problems.

Our industry based collaborative approach involves and unites our Districts and their local community. We believe that respect, Global Technology Commons, Inc. diversity and hard A Silicon Valley B-Corp. work will make us GTC was formed to extend our stronger in the end. community research into outcome IM PACT20 15 Events

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March 3rd, 2015 2:30-4:00pm

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based implementation and reporting mechanisms that include social investment methodologies.

Building Industry Capacity 9841 Washingtonian Boulevard Suite 200 (2nd Floor) Gaithersburg, MD 20878

eGRC Governance for Good NMTC Virginia District Deal Center 501 E Franklin Street, 8th Floor Richmond, VA 23219

NGO Benefits Exchange

Law Offices of Cooke Robotham, LLC 401 9th Street, NW, Suite 450 Washington, DC 20004 4

IMPACT 2015 – MARCH | Session Details Events will be held in MD, VA, and DC. NMTC Sr. Fellow and CEO of Global Technology Commons, Inc. (GTC), Mr. Cris Ibarra will be attending each event.

Building Industry Capacity

IMPACT 2015

This session brings context to our Industry opportunity to form partnerships with business owners, policy makers, educators, and likeminded world changers. Program research and development often requires stakeholder input. Access to industry is an evidence-based methodology. Our wellspring of relationships offer inductive iterations of innovation grounded by metrics.

NMTC seeks to raise public awareness, develop public policies, and partner to provide sustainability models aimed at increasing funding and implementing effective school/community/international partnerships and programs. NMTC’s capacity to increase Grant and Contract revenue through technical assistance and partnership MOUs is governed to increase our member’s strategic mission impact.

As a collaborative NMTC, supported by our member technology companies, provide logic model based technical assistance. Our certification and collaboration ecosystem methodology works to advance the kind of systemic changes that improve educational and work readiness policies and practices, particularly for children and families living in low-income communities.

eGRC Governance for Good (G4G) An enterprise governance, risk and compliance (eGRC) strategy creates consistency and transparency, enables collaboration, fosters operational efficiencies, and ensures the continuity and sustainability of public good systems. As our government, education, and non-profit members, politicians, administrators, foundations, and community stakeholders demand more governance and accountability, the minority technology industry is ready and able to answer the call.

G4G is a collaborative research process resulting from a partnership with our Virginia District and NMTC Alliance Partner eGRC.COM, Inc., and the newly formed Silicon Valley B-Corp Global Technology Commons, Inc. headed up by CEO Cris Ibarra. This session will discuss G4G and how it will govern and provide reporting for the Parent Involvement Boards now being formed at each “Title I” school in the US.

NGO Benefits Exchange The National Minority Technology Council is taking steps in developing a Private Health Exchange for our

members. This effort will provide both flexibility and risk reduction to our individual business owners.

NMTC anticipates further changes in the health insurance marketplace. With over 9,000 Registered minority technology company owners NMTC anticipates some will want to purchase health insurance through a private exchange. An NMTC Exchange would allow our member’s employees the opportunity to choose a health plan from participating payors offered by our Exchange. One big attraction of private exchanges is that they facilitate the migration to a defined contribution model while allowing employers to retain some involvement in their employees' healthcare.

This session will explore our ideas and framework for benefits provided through NMTC and our interest in establishing a Virginia Benefit Corp. © Copyright 2015, National Minority Technology Council, All rights reserved.

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IMPACT2015 Building on Community Impact

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National Minority Technology Council

Brenda Cureton, National STEM Director 501 E Franklin Street, Suite 828 Richmond, VA 23219 p. 804.677.8615 c. brenda.cureton@nmtcouncil.org

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