IMPACT2015 Building on Community Impact

Copyright 2015, National Minority Technology Council, All rights reserved.

Building on Community Impact

A Governance Framework and Community Action Model

National Minority Technology Council

www.nmtcouncil.org

IMPACT2015

2 Copyright 2015, National Minority Technology Council, All rights reserved.

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

IMPACT 2015

MARCH EVENTS

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 industrys 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.

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


The National Minority Technology Councils 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.

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The National Minority Technology Council (NMTC) is proud to present its findings relating to community impact and measurement, which is the culmination of a comprehensive engagement process spanning the last five years. Now that over fifteen years has passed since its founding, NMTC has earned a reputation as a respected and business minded trade association. Our tradition of addressing the common business interest of the Minority Technology Industry has extended to the communities from which many owners have come from or now reside.

We actively engage the brightest minds across the country, and now recently around the world, to solve our most difficult problems. Our focus on the urban centers across the US allows our industry the opportunity to bring relevance to our local education systems. As an

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industry we work to change lives by creating sustainable improvements in education, creating jobs by generating a more robust contracting environment for our members, resulting in economic prosperity for the communities where we work and serve.

NMTC is committed to creating long-lasting social change by addressing the underlying causes of barriers to quality education, financial stability and healthy living for our owners, employees, and the communities we serve. Our vision for the next ten years is to create positive, sustainable

change by keeping students on track to career ready graduation, helping families achieve lifestyle instead of just stability, and providing tools to lead a healthy and engaged life. This vision is the basis of our "Building on Community Impact " agenda.

Our PIB initiative involves the creation of individual Benefit Corps to support efforts to better involve parents at Title I Public Schools. Local PIBs provide industry resources, governance, and CTE curriculum to neighborhoods of need.

Parent Involvement Board (PIB)

From Cradle to Career

www.parentinvolvementboard.org


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, diversity and hard work will make us stronger in the end.

IMPACT2015 Events

March 2nd, 2015 Building Industry Capacity

March 3rd, 2015 eGRC Governance for Good

March 4th, 2015 NGO Benefits Exchange

Global Technology Commons, Inc. A Silicon Valley B-Corp.

GTC was formed to extend our community research into outcome based implementation and reporting mechanisms that include social investment methodologies.

5:30-7:30pm

NMTC Virginia District Deal Center 501 E Franklin Street, 8th Floor

Richmond, VA 23219

2:30-4:00pm

1:30-3:00pm Law Offices of Cooke Robotham, LLC

401 9th Street, NW, Suite 450 Washington, DC 20004

IMPACT2015

9841 Washingtonian Boulevard Suite 200 (2nd Floor)

Gaithersburg, MD 20878


Building Industry Capacity This session brings context to our Industry opportunity to form partnerships with business owners, policy makers, educators, and like-minded 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. NMTCs capacity to increase Grant and Contract revenue through technical assistance and partnership MOUs is governed to increase our members 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 members 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.

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.

IMPACT 2015

IMPACT2015 Building on Community Impact National Minority Technology Council

Brenda Cureton, National STEM Director 501 E Franklin Street, Suite 828 Richmond, VA 23219

p. 804.677.8615 c. [email protected]

www.nmtcouncil.org

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