Nonprofits & Technology

Benton Foundation Best Practices Page: Includes links to innovative uses of technology by nonprofit organizations. You will find links to a number of other nonprofit and technology initiatives here as well.

TechRocks is dedicated to accelerating social and political progress by building technological capacity for community collaboration and citizen engagement. TechRocks encourages and enables foundations, advocacy groups, and leading activists to use
technology to achieve their goals, to increase participation from interested constituencies, and achieve change more quickly than by traditional organizing and advocacy methods alone. TechRocks (formerly the Technology Project), which became a
supporting organization to the Rockefeller Family Fund in 2000, is a result of the merger in 1999 of the Rockefeller Technology Project and Desktop Assistance.

Npower's mission is to put technology know-how in the hands of nonprofit organizations and works with nonprofit in the Puget Sound area. The Web site offers an extensive link collection to resources and information that are useful to all nonprofits, including a recent update of NTEN's Technology Literacy Benchmarks.

NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network developed a blueprint for how the sector can use technology more effectively and creatively. The blueprint recommended a series of steps be taken that, combined, should increase the technology resources, tools and know-how of the nonprofit sector.

Linc Project is a capacity building program nonprofits that work with low income housing groups. The site includes an excellent technology toolkit.

Circuitriders.net is the Circuit Riding program at the W. Alton Jones Foundation is staffed by Sean O'Brien and Todd Koym.

Wired for Good a program of the Center
for Excellence in Nonprofits, helps Silicon Valley
nonprofits use technology strategically to improve organizational effectiveness. Leveraging Silicon Valley's talents and entrepreneurial spirit, Wired for Good matches the goals of nonprofits with the
technologies they need to be most successful.

The Progressive Technology Project (PTP) seeks to strengthen citizen action, increase public participation by under-represented communities and build stronger grassroots organizations by exploring and supporting the effective use of information technology.

Technology Works for Good is a regional
organization that provides leadership training, onsite circuit rider services and group purchasing opportunities for non-profit groups in the DC area.