2001 Awards

A planning grant to support the development of Blue Rose Videos, a fully accessible resource in Petaluma that can promote life long learning opportunities for individuals of all ages with visual impairment and blindness.

To increase access to Internet health and human resources information for Tuolumne County's low-income and underserved populations by developing a network of Neighborhood Information Centers, over two years.

To support the Civic Involvement and Leadership Development Project, which will increase and support, through the use of technology, the number of skilled leaders across California who can build strong neighborhood-based organizations, over two years.

To provide technology training and business education to Latino and Vietnamese immigrant entrepreneurs to enable them to successfully launch microenterprises, over two years

To support the Associates' La Familia Empowerment Initiative, which works with Latino parents in Oakland's Fruitvale/San Antonio district, to develop critical job-readiness skills and the necessary technical training to assist their children with schoolwork, over two years.

To support the Asian Language Legal Access Project that will increase access to legal services for monolingual and limited-English speaking Asians through a centralized telephone system that provides a single point for intake, information, and referral, over two years.

This project seeks to improve access to technology for the Asian Pacific Islander Family Resources Network Collaboration agencies to strengthen coordination and enhance their information and referral to low income, immigrant Asian and Pacific Islander families in San Francisco.

To develop the Computers to Music Project that teaches technology to low-income African-American and Latino parents who in turn can earn an opportunity to enroll their children in piano lessons, over two years.

To establish an 'Open Internet Training Computer Lab' for blind and visually impaired persons in Riverside, over two years.

To develop a new lab space in its new housing facility, over two years.