the Denver Metro, the rest of Colorado, who can participate in all in-house trainings, live via Video Tele Conference (VTC). All members (in-person and virtual) have access to all facilities and resources at the BNDC, which include conference and board rooms, private offices and cubicles, day-desks (hot desks), as well as an Art Gallery and Event Space, multiple high speed wired and wireless broadband internet networks, networked printing and copying, and modern, furnished offices with VoIP telephone technology. The BNDC is housed on the second floor of the Five Points Media Center, formerly the home of KUVO Jazz, and is co-located with PBS Channel 12, which occupies the 1st and 3rd floors. After an extensive gut renovation of the second floor, and in keeping with its broadcasting heritage, the BNDC includes two Streaming Media Studios. The Foundation has partnered with a Denver based, black-owned Streaming Media Company which will be in-charged of producing, recording and distributing podcasts and video casts to major streaming platforms such as Apple, Spotify, YouTube and others. Collectively all of the aforementioned encompass the community, entrepreneurship and education components of our mission. The studio build-out was made possible with a generous gift from the Bon Fils Stanton Foundation. Other investors who are making the RTL Foundation and BNDC possible include RTL Networks, Gary Community Ventures, Kaiser Foundation, Boettcher Foundation, Mile High United Way, Chinook Fund, PNC Bank Foundation, IMA Foundation, Molson Coors, Wells Fargo Corporate Foundations, Gates Family Foundation, as well as a growing list of individual donors and a pipeline of private and corporate foundations. The history component of our mission to serve BIPOC communities in a second transformational way is accomplished via the African American Experience Timeline – africanamericantimeline. org .
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subject matter experts to deliver programming. Programming is being rolled out in phases as we build a “BNDC Capacity Building curriculum for the members”. Capacity Building will be in the form of structured, calendared bootcamps and trainings, as well one-of workshops and presentations by individual experts. Among the identified and potential partners are Mile High United Way, Social Ventura Partners, Colorado Nonprofit Association, Community Resource Center, Spark the Change Colorado, Colorado Gives Foundation, among others. We believe that by building the member organization’s capacity, they will be transformed, to better deliver on their mission and to better impact the BIPOC communities they serve. In addition to self-transformation, we believe these organizations will refine and strengthen their missions and programming, will become sustainable and be on a path of growth and transformational impact. In addition to delivering better on their mission, we estimate they will serve more Coloradans, and project that by 2025, these organizations will collectively serve upward of 300,000 BIPOC Coloradans. By intention we built an Incubator Without Walls, in which members join the cohort in-person, with access to shared co-working spaces, assigned private offices and assigned cubicles, as well as virtual/remote members, member organizations who are part of the cohort and who are not physically located in the BNDC. These virtual members are organizations from Denver and
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