PTP Blog

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

Many people 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.

Learn more at www.progressivetech.org