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The Progressive Technology
Project (PTP) seeks to raise the scope and scale of technology resources
available to grassroots community-led organizing groups working for environmental,
economic, and social justice in low income communities and communities of color. PTP provides training, technical assistance
and grants to develop the capacity of grassroots organizing groups through
the use of information technology.
PTP's goals include:
- Help grassroots groups to
obtain new technology skills that advance their ability to improve the
quality of people's lives
- Explore, create and share
models of technology use that increase the organization's power and
effectiveness by adding value to grassroots organizing
- Develop a program of technical
assistance to address the unique needs that grassroots organizations
face in their use of technology
- Leverage resources to support
the use of information technologies by grassroots organizations
- Create a place for strategic
discussions about the relationship between grassroots organizing and
technology
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and communities are being left behind by the growing divide between
those who have access to information technologies and those who don't.
Grassroots groups in particular have not been able to take advantage
of the powerful potential that technology offers to advance their
work. PTP works to support the development of skills, capacities and
best practices that enable communities and organizations most often
left out of the information economy to harness the potential of technology.
PTP exists to build an infrastructure that supports grassroots groups'
use of information technologies to strengthen their efforts to create
just communities. |
| "Whole
communities are being excluded from this new economy. The
digital divide means less access and less economic power for
African Americans, Latinos and low-income people. Community
organizations have to learn how to best use this new technology
to stay in the game."
John
Liss, Director, Tenant and Workers Support Committee,
Alexandria, VA |
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2801 21st Avenue South, Suite 132E 
