2004 Awards

AjA Project

To support the program expansion and capacity-building of AjA's Journey program, which enables immigrant and refugee students in El Cajon to present through writing, photography, filmmaking, and storytelling, their perspectives of the refugee experience in America.

Boys & Girls Club of Tulare County

To engage young people with adults in building strong, healthy, clean neighborhoods by leveraging the use of technology to addressing and eliminating community concerns.

California Community Technology Policy Group

To increase the capacity of low-income communities to influence technology-related public policy in California and to increase policymakers’ understanding of community technology.

California State Rural Health Association

To develop a statewide Advocacy and Public Outreach Project to achieve greater access to quality, comprehensive and equitable rural health services and health care delivery for all rural residents. The project is focused on achieving new technology infrastructure in rural communities where it does not currently exist, and expansion of technology infrastructure where needed to provide greater access to health services.

Center for Health Justice

To improve the treatment of HIV+ inmates and post-incarcerated individuals and reduce their recidivism rate.

City Heights Community Technology Center

To launch three cultural web portals designed for and by community residents that will publish culturally competent, accessible, and relevant content for the City Heights neighborhood in San Diego.

Community Partners

To develop and facilitate a collaborative process with local stakeholders to achieve provisions which meet the needs and interests of all stakeholders in the cable franchise agreement with the City of Los Angeles.

CompuMentor

To extend the impact of the community technology field in California, with an emphasis on those organizations that have not self-identified as community technology centers in the past. The project will involve mapping the community technology centers, researching their needs, providing technical assistance, and engaging them in policy and advocacy work.

Health Access Foundation

To coordinate a set of information and communications strategies to ensure education, awareness, and involvement by communities of color, people with disabilities, and other under-represented constituencies in statewide health care reform and health policy issues.

Horizons Unlimited of San Francisco

To foster a community of conscious young adults who feel empowered to change the discourse of contemporary hip-hop culture, and to develop self-empowerment for themselves and their communities.