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[RRE]Nonprofits Policy and Technology
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:16:48 -0500
From: "R. Turner"
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Nonprofits' Policy & Technology Project Announces 1998 Pilot Project Grant Recipients
November 9, 1998
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The Pilot Project Grants Program selected six projects to receive grants ranging from $5,000 to $13,000 that employ information technology and commu-nication strategies to develop or bolster public policy activities, with an added emphasis on projects that have found ways to involve disadvantaged populations and communities.
This year's recipients are:
Colorado Women's Agenda (Denver, CO); Grant Amount: $13,000 A statewide network of progressive women and women's organizations will demonstrate how a small organization can broker collaboration through the use of technology. The organization will work with a wide range of women's' and girls' organizations, targeting specific constituencies, and provide technical assistance to help other organizations develop their capacity for effective communication and mobilization strategies. The end goal is to build a sustainable, powerful, cost-effective women's political movement within the state. (http://www.womensagenda.org/)
Cook Inlet Keeper (Homer, AK); Grant Amount: $11,000 The Keeper is a nonprofit organization of fishermen, artists, scientists, and Native Alaskans. It works to harness higher-end technologies including Geographic Information Systems and Internet-based fax, in order to facilitate direct citizen political participation and citizen-based research among geographically hard to reach rural populations in the collection of watershed data for an estuary covering 47,000 square miles in south central Alaska. (http://www.xyz.net/~keeper/)
FOCUS St. Louis (St. Louis, MO); Grant Amount: $13,000 An organization devoted to citizen leadership and civic engagement, FOCUS St. Louis is at the novice stage of technology use. It will work with a community technology center in a fractured community to explore ways of gathering citizens on a grassroots level for effective dialogue around divisive issues, specifically race relations. This project will emphasize public use of, and access to, Internet tools including chat, listservs, web-based conferences, and online surveys. (http://www.focus-stl.org)
Institute for the Study of Civic Values (Philadelphia, PA); Grant Amount: $5,000 The Institute's community-based outreach initiative, Jobs and Opportunity to Improve Neighborhoods (JOIN) Online, will conduct a campaign to engage welfare recipients in using technology for coalition building and organizing. The JOIN Project will also work to help welfare recipients communicate with the Philadelphia-area organizations and agencies that advocate and provide services on their behalf. (http://www.libertynet.org/nol/natl.html)
North Carolina Justice and Community Development Center (Raleigh, NC); Grant Amount: $10,000 The Center's NCexChange Project, the first statewide effort in the country to promote the use of electronic networking by nonprofits, will use multiple technology approaches to engage low-income individuals in public policy activity in the area of welfare reform. Working in collaboration with a newly-formed alliance of nonprofit agencies that addresses devolution issues, the lessons and models this project develops can be shared with other similar state alliances. (http://www.ncexchange.org)
Washington Low Income Housing Network (Seattle, WA); Grant Amount: $13,000 This housing advocacy coalition proposes to expand its current communications network serving its members and partners to include e-mail/listserv, while maintaining mail and fax communications with members who do not have Internet access. The expansion includes outreach to tenant' groups, other (non-housing) social service providers and policy advocates. The inclusion of tenants' groups in particular will give low-income housing populations a voice, allowing them to engage in discussions with providers and advocates. The inclusion of non-housing providers and advocates is intended to strengthen coalitions on issues of concern to low-income population. (wlihn@accessone.com)
The Pilot Project grantees were selected from 170 proposals from nonprofits in 39 states, representing local grassroots efforts, statewide projects, regional collaborations, national initiatives, and international projects with a domestic focus. The top five categories of policy issues addressed were environmental and conservation issues, community activism, health and human services, children and families, and civic participation.
Proposals were selected through rigorous entry requirements and three rounds of intensive review. Projects were judged on their potential to engage communities and constituencies for civic participation, as well as their impact on public policy outcomes in their stated issue areas. The vast majority of the proposals involved significant use of Websites and listservs; a number also incorporated higher-end technologies including web-based conferencing, online databases, Internet-based fax, and Geographic Information System (GIS) tools.
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Ryan Turner, Coordinator Nonprofits' Policy & Technology Project (NPT) OMB Watch 1742 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009-1171 PHONE: (202) 234-8494 FAX: (202) 234-8584 E-MAIL: turnerr@ombwatch.org WEB: http://www.ombwatch.org/ombw/npt/
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:06:03 -0500
From: "R. Turner"
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Nonprofits' Policy & Technology Project Announces 1998 Award Winners
November 9, 1998
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Contact: Ryan Turner, Coordinator (202) 234-8494 coordinator@ombwatch.org
Seven groups around the U.S. have been recognized for the technical
quality and level of community service provided by their Web sites as
part of the 1998 Nonprofit Technology Innovation Awards sponsored by OMB
Watch's Nonprofits' Policy and Technology (NPT) Project. For more
information on the project, visit the NPT website at
The grand prize winner is Bethphage
Other winners:- Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
*San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
*TVW
The grand prize winner received $3,000. All other winners received $1,000.
The award program is one part of the Nonprofits' Policy and Technology Project, an initiative to promote information technologies for public policy issues. OMB Watch is a nonprofit research, educational, and advocacy group that focuses on government policy issues and the effects of technology on nonprofit organizations. For more information, contact the NPT Project at:
Phone: (202) 234-8494 E-mail: coordinator@ombwatch.org
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Ryan Turner, Coordinator Nonprofits' Policy & Technology Project (NPT) OMB Watch 1742 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009-1171 PHONE: (202) 234-8494 FAX: (202) 234-8584 E-MAIL: turnerr@ombwatch.org WEB: http://www.ombwatch.org/ombw/npt/ ```
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