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Introducing Our Partner – Mixte

Our partner Mixte

FYC Labs proudly introduces our partner Mixte Communications- a renowned social justice communications agency committed to creating positive change. Mixte’s innovative approach to strategic communications emphasizes equity and community empowerment.

 

About Mixte:

Life is short — our choices matter.

That’s the truth that guides all of us at Mixte Communications, an immigrant-owned, woman-owned and values-run agency. It’s why we’ve chosen to build our business around helping social change agents to define their space — from strategic partnerships, to insightful media stories and thoughtful strategies across digital channels.

 

Our clients are grassroots organizations striving for change and the businesses who see they can build a better way. We’re honored to support them with digital marketing, public relations and strategic communications, and we bring an intentional approach to our work. We’re especially proud of our Mixte Momentum Model — a proprietary communications framework to achieve justice.

 

Of course, you don’t have to just take it from us! 2023 marked our second year being recognized with excellence for Best Boutique Agency for our commitment to equity. This award joins several others we’ve received for projects with incredible changemakers like Earthjustice, the American Council on Exercise, League of Women Voters of California and more.

Mixte is full of powerful storytellers and creative minds. Here, all of us choose to use our power to fight for equity and justice.

 

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Introducing Our Partner – Blush

Blush Design

Blush is a design tool that allows anyone to mix and match a diverse library of illustrations for projects of any type: keynotes, websites, social media posts, apps, books- anything! The coolest part? They are royalty-free, so you can use them on personal and commercial projects! Their mission is to empower creators of all backgrounds to tell their stories with the power of illustrations.

What sets Blush apart is a massive library of customizable illustrations crafted by top artists from around the globe. With Blush, you can effortlessly modify these illustrations to fit your project’s unique style and needs, giving you the freedom to express your creativity without boundaries. How? You can change the color palette with a click and even play around with the different components of each illustration (like eyes, mouth, and head shape) until you get the perfect doodle!

Another defining feature of Blush is that it’s easy to use for creatives of all levels, from beginners to seasoned pros. It’s incredibly user-friendly, ensuring that anyone can tap into its potential. On the plus side, Blush has plugins that work directly on the tools you love and know, like Figma & Sketch.

In short, it’s all about putting the power into the hands of designers, makers, marketers, engineers, and creatives of all types and skill levels. For the Blush team, there’s nothing better than seeing projects come to life with the help of our customizable illustrations.

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Partner Spotlight: ConnectivTech

ConnectivTech

ConnectivTech is comprised of high-end business technology advisors who specialize in vetting companies/vendors and matching them with the businesses they help. ConnectivTech has emulated a model that all the Fortune 500 to the Fortune 5 have in-house. They have dedicated departments for vendor selection and procurement while understanding the value of outsourcing to the right professionals/organizations.

ConnecitivTech has taken an enterprise-level solution and has brought that to all businesses. To maximize the value they bring to the client, they proactively vet organizations to create an approved vendor list. They are here to help your business find vendors you would otherwise have not found on your own.

Businesses these days have no choice but to outsource some aspects of their company. Whether it is something as simple as your Microsoft subscription for emails or Excel sheets for something more complicated like cyber security, your business relies on other organizations to function. Outsourcing to the right vendors can make or break a business. To ensure they make strong matches, ConnectivTech doesn’t get paid until their clients select the right vendor.

ConnectivTech is your advisor, advocate, and trusted partner to ensure your business is surrounded by the right people.

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Partner Spotlight: San Diego Cyber Center of Excellence

San Diego Cyber Center of Excellence

For the second consecutive year, FYC Labs is proud to announce its continued membership in the San Diego Cyber Center of Excellence (CCOE), a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering collaboration between businesses, academia, and government to enhance the regional cyber economy and ensure a safer digital community for all.

About CCOE: 
San Diego Cyber Center of Excellence (CCOE) is a nonprofit that mobilizes businesses, academia and government to grow the regional cyber economy and create a more secure digital community for all.

Our Programs and Initiatives focus on:

  • Increasing regional cyber resiliency
  • Seeding and diversifying the talent pipeline
  • Driving collaborative cyber innovation

Based on these pillars, CCOE develops best practices and templates that can be piloted industry-by-industry or scaled to the city, state or federal level to seed the talent pipeline, drive innovation, and protect our nation’s infrastructure.

While founded by a collection of world-class cyber organizations with operations in San Diego, CCOE is open to any entity with a stake in our regional cyber economy. Representative CCOE members and partners include: Biocom California, Booz Allen Hamilton, California Governor’s Office of Planning & Research and Military Council, City of Carlsbad, City of San Diego, City of Vista, Deloitte, ESET North America, FBI, FICO, FYC, Girl Scouts, Lockton, National Defense Industry Association, National Foundation for Autism Research, National University, NICE, Mastercard RiskRecon, Port of San Diego, Qualcomm, Raices Cyber, Scripps Health, Sharp Healthcare, U.S Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (CISA and Homeland Security Investigations), U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR), U.S. Secret Service, WiCyS and many more.

Together we move the needle on challenges and opportunities facing our region and the cyber industry. Please see our Q2 Newsletter, Annual Report and Cyber Insiders Podcast for an overview of our collective efforts and join us!

Introducing Our Partner – OpenGrants

Opengrants

OpenGrants is a venture-backed startup that provides a grant search engine and expert marketplace for non-profit organizations, foundations, startups, and government agencies who are looking for grant funding. Their mission is to simplify the grant search and application process and increase efficiency and transparency in the granting industry.

One of the key features of the OpenGrants platform is its ability to facilitate AI-powered grant matches to enable a searchless experience for grant seekers. This is important because of how challenging the grant search process can be due to the varied names and descriptions of grant programs.

OpenGrants has also recently added several new features to its platform. That includes an advanced search functionality that enables organizations to search for grants based on specific criteria such as funding level, geographic location, and grant type. They have also launched automated billing for the grant writer marketplace.

 

OpenGrants is run by an experienced and passionate team of entrepreneurs and technologists. We believe that, if done right, a business can be an effective catalyst for lasting change. Our past experiences exposed major challenges with grant funding, so we’re building the tools and community to solve them. Our mission—build modern infrastructure for public funding to massively improve the efficiency and equity of those funds—is what drives us every day. The team includes Sedale Turbovsky, founder and CEO; Cody Hanson, co-founder and COO; and Pachia Cha, co-founder and full stack developer. OpenGrants leverages FYC to scale up its technical talent as needed, and has secured FYC founder Justin Fortier as a fractional CTO.

With their recent updates and features, OpenGrants is continuing to improve and innovate in the grant-making space, making it easier for organizations to do good in the world.

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