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From: Cory Smith [mailto:csm...@civilrights.org]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:27 PM
To: 'steinb...@cma-oh.org'
Subject: National Press Event to Save TOP and CTC, May 15th at Capitol
Hil l, Washington DC
Dear Leonard,
We wanted to inform you about the national launch of the Digital Empowerment
Campaign press event taking place Wednesday, May 15th at 11 AM on Capitol
Hill. More details are below. We hope you can attend this important event.
DIGITALEMPOWERMENT.ORG
MEDIA ADVISORY
May 10, 2002
Contacts: Cory Smith, LCCR Rosia Blackwell-Lawrence,
PolicyLink
202-466-4281 212-629-9570 ext. 204
csm...@civilrights.org ro...@policylink.org
BIPARTISAN COALITION TO LAUNCH NATIONWIDE DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT CAMPAIGN TO
SUPPORT FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS
What: The kick-off of the "Digital Empowerment Campaign" calling for
continued federal support of community technology programs - the Technology
Opportunities Program (TOP) and the Community Technology Centers (CTC)
program.
Who:
* Senator Max Cleland (D-GA)
* Senator Olympia Snowe (invited) (R-ME)
* Senator Barbara Mikulski (invited) (D-MD)
* Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
* Milton J. Little, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer,
National Urban League
* Erroll Reese, Chairman, CTCNet
* Jacqueline Johnson, Executive Director, National Congress of American
Indians
* Charles Crawford, Executive Director, American Council of the Blind
* Michael Smith, Technology Director, Baltimore Urban League, Baltimore,
Maryland
* Robert Harrison, Institute for Community and Organizational Development,
Athens, Georgia
The Digital Empowerment coalition, a bipartisan group of over 75 civil
rights, public interest, education, health, religious, labor, women's,
community development, and technology organizations, is working to preserve
and strengthen the federal government's leadership in expanding opportunity
in the Digital Age. This launch will be the first in a series of events
across the nation supporting federal community technology programs.
When: Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 11 AM
Where: Senate Swamp -- Northwest front of the US Capitol, near the entrance
to the Senate's Chamber
Why: The Bush Administration's FY03 budget proposal calls for the
elimination of two critical federal programs that supply seed money for
technology projects in low-income urban areas, rural areas, and Indian
tribal lands.
* Created in 1994, the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) has awarded
530 grants, in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the
U.S. Virgin Islands, totaling $192.5 million and leveraging $268 million in
local matching funds that create innovative technology demonstration
projects in the areas of high-tech employment skills, emergency services,
telemedicine, disability accessibility, and education.
* Since its establishment in 1999, the Community Technology Centers program
(CTC) has distributed 227 grants, totaling over $74 million dollars, to
promote the development of model programs that demonstrate the educational
effectiveness of technology in urban and rural areas and economically
distressed communities.
For more information, visit www.digitalempowerment.org
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