Project Connect Grantees

Project Connect Grantees

These groups were selected to receive needs assessments from NetCorps interns and technical consultants who traveled on-site to discuss their goals, activities and tech needs. Selected groups received additional funding for systems installation, training and follow-up support.

Causa , Salem , OR

Organization`s Mission: To defend immigrants rights and well-being and counter the anti-immigrant agenda in Oregon. To defend an promote immigrants rights in Oregon and educate the public around immigration issues.

Project Description: Causa received two new computers, networking of existing and new machines, a network modem, and software training. These improvements made the daily information exchange between Causa and its member groups faster and more reliable as they continue their record of effectiveness in mobilizing and protecting immigrant communities throughout Oregon.

Centro de Ayuda , Newport , OR

Organization`s Mission: To develop more acceptance in community diversity through educational programs and activities to create an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding across cultural boundaries.

Project Description: Centro de Ayuda received an Organizational Needs Assessment and Technology Plan.

Chicano Culture Club , Salem , OR

Organization`s Mission: To address cultural needs of Hispanic inmates during their incarceration. Also reduce recidivism, discrimination, drug abuse and criminal activity through Hispanic inmate advocacy and community outreach.

Project Description: Chicano Culture Club received training for their members in computer operation and software. Their increased ability to use computers helped to inform and mobilize inmates and allies involved in their campaign challenging the use of culturally-biased psychiatric evaluations on prisoners, as well as helped them in their other programs.

Community Alliance of Tenants , Portland , OR

Organization`s Mission: To educate and empower tenants to demand affordable, stable and safe rental homes. Recognizing that housing is the basis of a strong community, CAT brings tenants together to organize and collectively work for fair and equal protections in housing policy and practice.

Project Description: Community Alliance of Tenants received upgrades for several of their existing computers, and installation of a computer network to facilitate file and resource sharing. These improvements came at a key time in CAT’s rapid growth and expansion—their comprehensive program is directed at improving tenant rights and the affordability of housing for Portland renters.

Danzine , Portland , OR

Organization`s Mission: To share the information and resources we need to increase our options, and make informed personal and professional choices in the sex industry.

Project Description: Danzine received an Organizational Needs Assessment and Technology Plan.

Eagle Cap AIDS Support Team , LaGrande , OR

Organization`s Mission: To provide education and information for HIV/AIDS prevention outreach and support to Eastern Oregon residents of Union, Baker and Wallowa Counties.

Project Description: Eaglecap AIDS Support Team received a new web site with a chat room feature, along with training in web site maintenance. The site is part of a strategy to educate and inform a greater number of individuals in the huge geographic region they cover (Baker, Union and Wallowa counties) about HIV/AIDS; technology allows people isolated by homophobia and AIDS-phobia to receive information that saves lives.

Eugene Springfield Solidarity Network , Eugene , OR

Organization`s Mission: To increase the power of working people in Lane County. We believe that workers benefit from union membership and that the entire community gains from stronger unions with active memberships. Therefore we believes that building bigger and stronger unions is a community issue.

Project Description: The Eugene Springfield Solidarity Network received an Organizational Needs Assessment and Technology Plan.

Jefferson Center for Education and Research , Wolf Creek , OR

Organization`s Mission: To bring together poor and working people across cultural and language divides to use people’s personal experiences as raw material for analysis and action in issue areas where social justice activism is emerging but not yet widely organized.
> Project Description: The Jefferson Center for Education and Research received an Organizational Needs Assessment and Technology Plan.

Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center , Williams , OR

Organization`s Mission: To preserve the biodiversity of the Klamath Siskiyou bioregion of southwest Oregon and northwestern California focusing on endangered species, road density reduction and preserving public lands while empowering people to get involved.

Project Description: The Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center received an Organizational Needs Assessment and Technology Plan.

Lakota Oyate Ki Cultural Organization , Salem , OR

Organization`s Mission: To bring Native American culture, spiritual beliefs and teachings into the penitentiary so inmates can practice their religion in the form of ceremonies, meetings and youth speaking panels with the ultimate goal of reducing youth crime.

Project Description: Lakota Oyate-Ki received training for their members in computer operation and software. Their increased use of computers helped them to create and distribute their monthly newsletter to inside and outside members who support Native American prisoners and work to maintain access for Native American prisoners to their spiritual practices.

Lambda Community Center Association , Ashland , OR

Organization`s Mission: The mission of the Lambda Community Center Association is to support the Bi-sexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Trangender Community (BGLT) through advocacy, coordination of vital services and sponsorship events.

Project Description: Lambda Community Center Association redesigned their web site, and received a new computer, along with training in web site maintenance. This created a "virtual hub" for members in their area, and increased the visibility and accessibility of their many programs serving this largely rural lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.


Multicultural HIV/AIDS Alliance of Oregon , Portland , OR

Organization`s Mission: To develop and maintain and advocate for competent, culturally appropriate HIV prevention and service delivery systems within the state of Oregon.


Project Description: The Multicultura HIV/AIDS Alliance of Oregon received an Organizational Needs Assessment and Technology Plan.

North Coast Pride Network , Astoria , OR

Organization`s Mission: To promote equality and human dignity for all individuals regardless of sexual orientation, race, gender, socioeconomic status, or religion. The organization is dedicated to erasing misconceptions and stereotypes about GLTB people of the Lower Columbia region.

Project Description: The North Coast Pride Network received an Organizational Needs Assessment and Technology Plan.

Oregon Health Access Project , Salem , OR

Organization`s Mission: To provide and solicit the consumer oriented information necessary for effective citizen participation in health reform discussions at the local, state and national levels.

Project Description: Oregon Health Access Project received two computers, networking of their new and existing computers, a laser printer and basic software training. This helped them to be more effective in sharing critical information with and mobilizing their extensive base of members as they work to facilitate community involvement in health policy decisions.

Oregon Tradeswomen Network , Portland , OR

Organization`s Mission: To promote the success of women in the trades through education, leadership and mentoring. Our work includes offering information and education to women entering the trades and promoting equality in the workforce.

Project Description: The Oregon Tradeswomen Network received an Organizational Needs Assessment and Technology Plan.

Peace House , Ashland , OR

Organization`s Mission: To promote nonviolence and social justice, we maintain a multi-issue profile, flexible to the concerns of the community giving priority to issues that will motivate activism and social change.

Project Description: Peace House received two networked computers, a scanner and fax software, and basic software training. This enhanced their role as a resource and networking center for activism in their area by increasing their communication capacity and ability to organize support for peace, human rights and economic justice issues.

Portland Central America Solidarity Committee , Portland , OR

Organization`s Mission: To oppose US intervention--both military and economic-- in Central America and Mexico and to support cross-border struggles for peace, justice and self-determination.

Project Description: Portland Central America Solidarity Committee received a computer, a scanner and fax software, and equipment and funding for a second phone line, along with basic software training. PCASC’s access to the Internet is key so that they can receive fast, accurate information about their issue from other US and international organizations doing this work. This is especially important for the local work of the Cross-Border Labor Organizing Committee, who mobilizes activists locally using e-mail and fax alerts.

Rogue Valley Oregon Action , Medford , OR

Organization`s Mission: To organize low and moderate income people from diverse communities in Jackson and Josephine Counties to develop effective leadership skills and address the root cause of critical economic issues including living wage, health care, community economic development and affordable housing.

Project Description: The Rogue Valley Oregon Action received an Organizational Needs Assessment and Technology Plan.

Rural Organizing Project , Scappoose , OR

Organization`s Mission: To strengthen the skills, resources, and vision of leadership in local and rural human dignity groups while these groups a vibrant source of just democracy. Our work includes networking with rural groups surrounding case specific issues including: economic justice, racial justice, and democracy issues.

Project Description: Rural Organizing Project received three networked computers, and software training. The widely dispersed nature of their 75 rural group membership required them to use communication technology well to advance the human rights strategies appropriate to each community. ROP will continue to use the Internet to connect and mobilize activists across the state.

Sisters in Action for Power , Portland , OR

Organization`s Mission: To build the leadership of low income women and girls of color by engaging their members in developing community driven action campaigns that address social and economic injustice.

Project Description: Sisters In Action for Power received a laser printer, zip drive, network modem, desktop publishing software and training, and basic software training. They trained members on desktop publishing so that they could assume leadership in producing the organization’s newsletter. Sisters membership is primarily low-income women, and women and girls of color.

Umpqua Watersheds Inc. , Roseburg , OR

Organization`s Mission: To the protect and restore the watersheds in the Umpqua River basin through advocacy and outreach. Our program activities focus on encouraging people to get involved in protecting forest areas and preserving public lands.

Project Description: Umpqua Watersheds received two computers, networking of these and their existing computers, a laser printer, a digital camera and basic software training. This enabled them to further develop their existing web site ( www.umpqua-watersheds.org), which they use to mobilize community members across the state to take action to protect roadless areas.

Unete al Movimiento de Conciencia Popular , Medford , OR

Organization`s Mission: To empower and enrich the lives of local farmworkers through advocacy, education and organizing. Our purpose is to defend immigrant farm workers rights by acting as a resource and support center and by monitoring farm worker issues.

Project Description: Unete Al Movimiento de Conciencia Popular received two new networked computers, fax software and a scanner, and bilingual training in Windows 98 and basic office software. Their members and supporters were so enthusiastic about their participation in Project Connect that they raised $500 towards a second phone line to facilitate Internet access, and Unete members enthusiastically participated in the on-site training.

Willamette Valley Law Project , Woodburn , OR

Organization`s Mission: To develop and work in association with organizations to provide research and technical assistance to immigrants on issues including discrimination in labor laws, battling anti-immigrant sentiments and building new leadership within the immigrant community.

Project Description: In 2000, NetCorps helped the Willamette Valley Law Project receive hardware and staff training as part of a larger project to completely update their antiquated computer network. This transition happened in time to benefit their student mobilization, during which they brought students from all over the country to work in solidarity with Oregon’s farm workers.

Youth for Justice , Eugene , OR

Organization`s Mission: To work for a society free from bigotry that upholds human rights and human dignity while educating and organizing against groups, movements and government practices which promote hatred, scapegoating, and discrimination.

Project Description: Youth for Justice (Eugene) received a computer, laser printer, scanner and fax software, along with basic software training. YFJ previously shared a single computer with two different organizational programs. They used these improvements to create and maintain more contact with other social change organizations, as well as train youth activists without access to computers.