2003 Grants

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Community Building

Benetech, Statewide, $94,910
To make available 1,000 copyrighted Spanish language books in accessible formats to people with disabilities throughout the state of California, and provide this community of Limited English Proficient populations with accessible public domain and health-focused Spanish language content from the public domain or with permission from copyrighted owners, over two years. Contact: James R. Fruchterman - (650) 475-5440 [Benetech in the News - Full Article]

Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, Berkeley, $83,500
To provide staff and technology resources to increase the capacity of BOSS's Social Justice Strategy, over two years. Contact: Boona Cheema - (510) 649-1930

California Indian Legal Services, Statewide, $75,000
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. Contact: Michael Pfeffer - (510) 835-0284 x. 307

Khmer Society of Fresno, Fresno, $70,000
To establish radio programming and a community journal that will provide news and information on economic and technology developments, public education, and civic participation to the Cambodian community in Fresno County, over two years. Contact: Kimtau Chhorn - (559) 252-0474

United Pilipino Organizing Network, San Francisco, $100,000
To develop a web-based centralized database to manage the client information of 5 CBO's serving the Pilipino Community in the South of Market area. The database will be used to extrapolate current, accurate reports about the changing needs and trends of the Filipino community in the areas of health, employment, housing, and education that can be used by not only the service providers, but for policy makers, advocates, legislators, and funders, over two years. Contact: Don Marcos - (415) 865-2105

Vietnamese Youth Development Center, San Francisco, $85,000
To create opportunities for at-risk Tenderloin youth to develop their strengths and talents, and tell the stories of their lives and cultures, using the new technologies of digital media and the Internet, over two years. Contact: Glades Perreras - (415) 771-2600

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Community Economic Development

Bay Area Sisters & Allies Training Project, Oakland, $75,000
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. Contact: Noa Mohlabane - (510) 536-2260

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc., Statewide, $89,500
To launch a Digital Storytelling and Multimedia training and technical assistance program for targeted community organizations across the state, over two years. Contact: Paige Ramey - (415) 558-2172

Rolling Start, Inc.,, San Bernardino, $52,000
To support Rolling Start's economic development efforts through provision of a fully accessible computer lab with unencumbered access to machines and the Internet as well as classroom and computer-based instruction in basic computer literacy, Microsoft Office applications, Internet navigation and research and web design to people with disabilities in San Bernardino county, over two years. Contact: Michael J. Hans - (909) 884-2129

San Diego Urban League, San Diego, $100,000
To support Project Jump Start, which provides adult basic education, job training/placement, and supportive services to help move low-income individuals into viable careers that pay decent wages and offer benefits, over two years. Contact: Maurice Wilson - (619) 266-6244

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Education

Center for Academic and Social Advancement, San Diego, $84,000
To support La Clase MÃ gica, an innovative community technology curriculum, accessed through interactive computer programs at six sites across urban and rural San Diego county that builds on the power of children in underserved communities to learn through engagement in a magical adventure, over two years. Contact: Olga A. Vasquez - (858) 546-8765

Institute of Popular Education of Southern California, Los Angeles, $85,000
To strengthen the Popular Technology and Communication Project, over two years. Contact: Jose Esquivel - (213) 252-2952

NEEDS Outreach, San Diego, $75,000
To expand three Communication Access Centers serving youths with hearing and visual disabilities by increasing networking and information-sharing capacities of NEEDS Outreach clients, expanding online learning tools that have been filed-tested with youths in the school environment, and developing a cadre of trainers that will represent a cross-section of community users, over two years. Contact: Barbara Pflaum - (858) 573-8895

Oasis, San Francisco, $12,000
To support the second phase of the Oasis Technology Plan, integrating technology into its programs and the projects that empower young women by increasing their understanding of and ability to apply learned knowledge through the use of technology, over one year. Contact: Jill W. Pfeiffer - (415) 701-7991

Westside Youth Inc., Mendota, $38,000
To establish a Technology Center at the Westside Youth Center, enhancing the current level of services provided to youth and children in the community through basic computer literacy skills and English literacy skills instruction as well as use of the Internet, over one year. Contact: Nancy Daniel - (559) 655-4808

Zeum, San Francisco, $75,000
To enhance advanced electronic media and digital technology components of Zeum's teen internship, family advocacy, and education programs toward improving the ability of low-income families and youth to self-advocate, build useful work/life skills, and develop creative, culturally appropriate, and relevant solutions to societal barriers, over two years. Contact: Tiffany Rosenberg - (415) 820-3350

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Health

Asian Perinatal Advocates, San Francisco, $84,500
To continue development of a client database system and an interactive APIFRN website to enhance the APIFRN's responsiveness to the needs of Asian & Pacific Islander communities in San Francisco, over two years. Contact: Blanche Kung - (415) 206-5450

California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, Statewide, $80,000
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. Contact: Ellen Wu - (510) 832-1160

Darin M. Camarena Health Centers, Madera, $90,000
To develop two specific technologies that will enhance patient access to health information: a) installation of four electronic health information kiosks in patient waiting areas and b) installation of touch-screens in critical patient care areas that interface with the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system providing patients and providers with easy access to health education advisories and drug guides, over two years. Contact: Eva Negrette - (559) 664-4000 x.4099

Exceptional Parents Unlimited, Inc., Fresno, $100,000
To collaborate with an existing network of Family Resource Centers in Central California, utilizing technology to increase the access that parents of children with disabilities and other special needs have to information, training and contact with other parents, over two years. Contact: Rhonda Jorn - (559) 229-2000 x. 131

Indian Health Council, Pauma Valley, $79,500
To develop and implement a Technical Learning Theatre that will allow IHC patients and community members to increase skills and education related to technology use that will respond to community needs within the areas of technology use and health, over two years. Contact: Henry Michel - (760) 749-1410 x.5232

Self-Help for the Elderly, San Francisco, $90,000
To expand the Technology and Information & Empowerment Center to serve two additional counties: San Mateo and Santa Clara, over two years. Contact: Josephine Ma - (415) 982-9171

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Planning

California Small Business Education Foundation, Los Angeles, $15,000
To support the planning of a small business technology effectiveness initiative through a seminar about the availability of technology options for micro-enterprises and provision of tools, support, and empowerment to promote technology use on many small business issues, with a focus on the Inland Empire, over six months. Contact: William R. Schulte - (650) 346-5361

DataCenter, Statewide, $15,000
To provide customized training and online research tools to help organizations based in low-income communities of color do strategic research, gather and use information to educate communities, gather allies, overcome opponents, and change policy -- using technology to create effective solutions to quality-of-life challenges, over six months. Contact: Carol Cantwell - (510) 835-4692 x.309

Nihonmachi Little Friends, San Francisco, $15,000
To support a comprehensive organizational and technology assessment including planning recommendations that will be incorporated into an overall technology plan, over six months. Contact: Cathy Inamasu - (415) 922-8898

Search to Involve Pilipino Americans, Los Angeles, $20,000
To support a comprehensive organizational and technology assessment for SIPA including planning recommendations that will be incorporated into an overall technology plan, over six months. Contact: Joel F. Jacinto - (213) 382-4151

TEAM Chapman, Chico, $20,000
To begin bringing the multiple cultures of Chapman Town together, to assess the technological needs of the community and cultures, and to create a database to assist the residents' link to services outside of their community, over six months. Contact: Scott Heinze - (530) 893-0391

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Other

Hispanics in Philanthropy, Statewide, $70,000
To increase its technological capacity to advocate for increased dollars for Latino communities and to upgrade its Web site to become a comprehensive resource on Latino issues. Contact: Diana Campoamor - (415) 837-0427

Network For Good, Statewide, $10,000
To support the Technology Funders Affinity Group (also known as the TechFunders Collaborative) for its efforts towards building a national philanthropic network centered on the funders that support efforts in the field of community technology. Contact: Ken Weber - (703) 265-3235

N-TEN, Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, San Francisco, $5,000
To partially support Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (N-TEN) 2003 'Roundup', a three-day national conference for nonprofit technology circuit riders in Oakland, California. Contact: Ed Batista - (415) 397-9000

Northern California Grantmakers, Statewide, $8,250
To upgrade Web site by rebuilding its foundational template making the site more user-friendly and logical, training staff to keep it updated, and establishing an online learning community to benefit nonprofits and philanthropy. Contact: Bob Stein - (415) 777-5761 x.18

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