2000 Technology Matching Fund Projects

Ethiopian Community Computer Resources Center
Ethiopian Community Mutual Association

Grant Award: $36,200

Equip community center with up to date computer systems and peripherals for training and Internet access.

PNA Computer Technology Center
Phinney Neighborhood Association

Grant Award: $25,660

Establish computer technology center with 11 computers providing public access to the Internet and basic literacy training. The center will include public access terminals and a lab.

Rainier Vista Technology & Resource Center
Rainier Vista Leadership Team

Grant Award: $21,000

Expand the resources of the Job Resource Center's Computer lab to enable production of Powerpoint multimedia learning materials, to include ESL/ABE software and to expand availability to the surrounding neighborhoods of SE Seattle.

Computer Power Learning System
Intergenerational Innovations

Grant Award: $14,800

Improve access to basic technology skills for seniors via middle and high school student teachers. Create learning manuals for use by students and seniors.

Connecting Seattle
WA State Neighborhood Networks Consortium

Grant Award: $13,000.00

Expand Connecting Seattle - connecting computer labs in low income housing complexes to new computers and Internet access.

El Centro De La Raza Computer Literacy Center
El Centro de la Raza

Grant Award: $12,236

Increase computer literacy among Latinos in Seattle and the Beacon Hill community. Expand classes and hours that the computer lab is open. Increase marketing effort.

Symposium on Art, Law and New Technologies
Washington Lawyers for the Arts

Grant Award: $9,600.00

Provide an interdisciplinary symposium on legal and business issues encountered by artists producing musical, literary and mixed media creation including film, video, television, broadband, Internet and digital technology in general.

Planning Grant - Oral History Project
SCAN - Seattle Community Access Television, Inc.

Grant Award: $5,000

Plan an ongoing neighborhood intergenerational oral history project to be produced through the public access cable television facility and to include a web component.

Historias del Familias
Jack Straw Productions & Kimball Elementary PTSA

Grant Award: $4,400

Work with families and Spanish speaking children at Kimball mentored by high school students & prof artists to create oral histories of their families.