2002 Awards

To support a multimedia program that provides technology access, training, digital documentation, and translation services to youth activists engaged in innovative civic participation campaigns in the Bay Area, over two years.

To create the Benefits Planning Information Center (BPIC), a one-stop web-based resource center for benefits planners, consumers with disabilities, and their families, which serves as a key dissemination point for accurate, cross-referenced, and up-to-date information for people with disabilities in the areas of health, education, federal and state policies and procedures.

To develop a web-based advocacy program that provides information and analytical tools to enable underserved communities to be effective advocates for human rights and social change in California, over two years.

To develop a plan by a collaborative of five community-based organizations in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco to implement the 'SoMa Pilipinos Integration Through Technology Project' which aims to connect members of the Pilipino community with their historical past and heritage.

To provide vocational computer skills training, job readiness training, English and Math classes to Native American youth and adults, encouraging leadership and success, over two years.

To develop a technology specialist training program offering life and computer skills education, internships, and counseling that foster links to sustainable employment, over two years.

To enhance existing workforce development programs that offer technology job training and placement opportunities in A+ certification in West Oakland and San Pablo.

To support SAJE's Financial Technology Program that builds community organizing and technology skills among low-income African-American and Latino grassroots leaders engaged as peer educators in equitable electronic public assistance benefits reform.

To support a four-agency collaborative to promote the full and equal access to advanced telcommunications of Seniors, Native Americans, and other persons with disabilities in underserved rural areas of Northern California, thereby increasing their full inclusion and integration into their communities, over two years.

To support a community technology center in Orange Cove that advances economic development and educational skills in an impoverished rural community, over two years.