2003 Awards

To expand coverage of InfoNet, an Internet based information and referral directory, to include resources and services provided in Amador and Calaveras counties, over 18 months.

To address the needs of underserved and highly stigmatized Asian and Pacific Islander communities around sexual health and HIV/AIDS by improving their ability to collect, manage and use data to improve organizational efficiencies and to strengthen policy advocacy efforts, over one year.

To continue and improve the Asian Language Legal Intake Project, a centralized telephone intake system for legal services provided to low-income, monolingual or limited English proficient, Asian callers in Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean and Khmer (Cambodian), over one year.

To continue development of a client database system and an interactive Asian Pacific Islander Family Resource Network (APIFRN) website to enhance the APIFRN's responsiveness to the needs of Asian & Pacific Islander communities in San Francisco, over two years.

To support the Family Childcare Development Project, which assists low-income and immigrant women in using information technology to build and manage sustainable licensed family childcare homes through which they can earn a living wage and provide consistent, developmentally appropriate, and culturally sensitive care for children in their communities, over two years.

To launch a Digital Storytelling and Multimedia training and technical assistance program using BrainGlow for targeted community organizations across the state, over two years.

To make available 1,000 copyrighted Spanish language books in accessible formats to people with disabilities throughout the state of California, and provide Limited-English Proficient populations with accessible and health-focused Spanish language content from the public domain or with permission from copyrighted owners, over two years.

To provide staff and technology resources to increase the capacity of BOSS's Social Justice Strategy, over two years.

To make culturally relevant legal information available online, pilot an online Legal Diagnostic tool that assists in identifying unresolved legal issues and accessing Indian-friendly legal resources, and offer workshops and training to enhance underserved tribal communities' ability to access effective legal services, with a focus on web-based tools, over two years.

To develop and implement a Multicultural Health Web Portal that will strengthen advocacy efforts for improving the health of low-income communities of color by providing opportunities for constituents and stakeholders to share information and resources and influence public policies impacting their communities, over two years.