DDN folks, the CTC VISTA Project has just released the following notice
for its program for the coming year. With the development of project priority
areas as noted below, we're expanding our outreach for participating
organizations and projects and welcome your inquiries and applications.
Having been originally funded through the Corporation for Public and
Community Service's Digital Divide Initiative, DDN members are
certainly an appropriate constituency for this announcement. ----pm
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CTCNet members and other interested folks, we're pleased to inform you that the CTC VISTA project will be operating in the 2005-06 program year and want to let you know about some of the changes in our program for the coming year.
To summarize the changes (and note the new application and reporting requirements with the Corporation for National Service), we are moving from a project that presents itself as a resource to help build the capacity of CTCs and related organizations in a direction solely of their own choosing to one in which applicant organizations are required to address one of the Project’s four priority areas:
- community networking
- community organizing and development
- technology support to non-profit organizations
- digital media support programs for youth
The project will develop resources and curriculum to support, learn from, and teach best practices in these arenas.
A full statement of the 2005-'06 Project Basics can be found at <www.cpcs.umb.edu/vista/projectbasics.htm>.
In addition to having these project priority areas, applicant organizations should be aware that there is a more complicated application and reporting process that is noted in the project basics.
As a result of these changes, we anticipate that while many existing CTCNet affiliates will continue to apply, the challenge of meeting new programmatic and application/reporting requirements may well discourage some. On the other hand, because of the new priority areas, we anticipate a growth in applications from a wider range of organizations that are not currently CTCNet members.
Your comments and questions are most welcome and encouraged. Interested CTCs and related organizations can begin this process by sending a brief overview of your organization and what you would like your VISTA(s) to do to the Project's Assistant Director Paul Hansen at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. We're looking forward to hearing from you.
best, ----peter
-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Peter Miller The CTC VISTA Project http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/vista _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
