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Minute Circle Friendly House


2405 Elmwood

Kansas City, MO 64127


Project Director: Andrew Campos, 816/231-0143, kcmomcfh@crn.org
The Northeast Family Project, in Northeast Kansas City, will have three purposes: education, access and strengthening the community. Twenty-one organizations will be part of the project. Education opportunities will be offered through five Computer Labs and 16 Neighborhood Access Points (2 terminals). Users will include residents of all ages. It is anticipated that 900 residents will complete a 20-hour training module in basic computer technology and computer literacy through the Computer Labs; 1,350 residents will complete a 5-hour training module in basic computer technology and computer literacy through Neighborhood Access Points; 1,100 individuals will connect to Internet-based job-search sites; and 550 residents will use instructional modules, including GED preparation, ESL, SAT/ACT preparation coursework, and self-directed study, such as MathBlasters.
Primary Partners: Don Bosco Senior Center; Northeast Middle School; Salvation Army Bellefontaine Corps; Whatsoever Community Center; Della Lamb Community Services; Don Bosco Counseling Center; Glennon Place; Holy Cross School; Italian Cultural Center; Joe Rogers Community Center; Kansas City Free Health Clinic; Northeast News; Nowlin Hall; Old Northeast, Inc.; River Market Coffee House; River Market Fitness; St. Stephen’s Academy; Salvation Army Blue Valley Corps.; Sheffield Family Life Center and Sons of Columbus
New Centers: (5) Five Computer Labs located at: the Salvation Army Bellefontaine Corps; Minute Circle Friendly House; Don Bosco Senior Center; Northeast Middle School; Whatsoever Community Center; and (16) sixteen Neighborhood Access Points (two terminals)
Total projected federal funding: 1 year, $256,632

Total projected non-federal funding: 1 year, $109,985



Montana State University-Northern


P.O. Box 7751

Havre, MT 59501-7751


Project Director: Vicki Gist, 406/265-3706, gist@msun.edu
The Community Technology Education Center (C-TEC) project is an activity of Montana State University-Northern. The objectives of the project are to provide free or low-cost access to technology and training to people in this extremely rural region that would not normally be able to afford or have access to it; to provide a safe, fun, drug-free environment where children can learn and be creative using technology; and to provide training to small businesses that will increase opportunities for minorities, specifically Native Americans, and first-time entrepreneurs. The Center is designed to serve 30 new clients each week and 250 clients who will be revisiting the Center. Desired outcomes: 1) school and community participation in the technology center; 2) better-educated and trained students, adults and seniors; 3) more academically competitive graduates; and a 4) re-energized community that comfortably and confidently applies and uses technology in their every day lives.
Primary Partners: Department of Business Services and History, Computer Information

Systems; Bear Paw Development Corporation’s SBDC; Human

Resources and Development Council (HRDC – District IV)

New Center: (1) The Community Technology Education Center, Montana State

University-Northern, Vande Bogart Library
Total projected federal funding: 1 year, $281,532

Total projected non-federal funding: 1 year, $122,831


Morris Brown College

643 Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive, N.W.

Atlanta, GA 30314
Project Director: Carolyn Jackson, 404/739-1073, carolyn.Jackson@morrisbrown.edu
This program will serve approximately 200 third and fifth grade students and their parents who live in the low-income Atlanta Empowerment Zone and do not have access to computers nor the Internet in their home or at work. The program will provide computer training and Internet access classes for the parents of sixty students. The after-school program for students will provide homework assistance in reading, language arts, math, science and social studies, explorations of the Internet and multimedia activities that include web page creation and design.
Primary Partners: City of Atlanta Community Technology Center; Atlanta Public

Schools; U.S. Wireless, Inc. of Atlanta; Oglethorpe Elementary School; and Rusk Elementary School.


New Centers: (1) City of Atlanta Community Technology Center
Total projected federal funding: 1 year, $209,537.00

Total projected non-federal funding: 1 year, $88,279.00



Mott Community College


1401 East Court Street

Flint, MI 48503-2089


Project Director: Robert Mathews, 810/762-9360, rmatthew@mcc.edu
Mott Community College (MCC) and the University of Michigan-Flint (UMF) have established five CTCs serving low income residents of Flint, Michigan. The Career Path Enhancement (CPE) Program will be established, offered at the CTC’s, and will consist of the following elements: 1) curriculum designed in module short courses with online course delivery; 2) case studies and relevant problem solving; 3) job shadowing experiences; 4) mentors and ementors; 5) access to PALM Pilot Technology; and 6) a Computer Ownership Incentive Program. It is anticipated that 60 individuals will participate in the CPE program and that 30 will complete the 16 mini-courses required to receive a CPE certificate.
Primary Partners:
(3) Expanded Centers, (2) New Centers:

MCC’s centers are located at the Faith-based Economic Development Corporation; the Disability Network; and the Hispanic Technology Center (scheduled to open Fall of 2001). UMF centers are located at the Oak Business Center and Northbank Center.


Total projected federal funding: 1 year, $225,168

Total projected non-federal funding: 1 year, $98278


Municipality of Orocovis

P.O. Box 2106

Orocovis, PR 00720
Project Director: Jose Burgos, 787/867-5000, orocovis@coqui.net
The program will serve 800 low-income Hispanic, single household parents, students and small business owners in rural, economically distressed communities in the Municipality of Orocovis, Puerto Rico. The program and services will focus on a cyber mobile unit that will take technological services, training and access to the Internet to the rural communities. It will provide computer literacy and training to rural single women with children, provide career and occupational information to students through the Internet and provide small business owners with training in the use of technology to increase productivity and reach new markets.
Primary Partners: Municipality of Orocovis Public Library; Mountain Consortium;

Department of Natural and Environmental Resources; School-to-Work Partnership; Association for the Development of Agriculture; School District of Orocovis; Ana Dalila Secondary Unit School; Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory; Oro-Centro Corporation; Producciones Interactivas, Inc.; and the Small Business Development Center- Inter American University of Puerto Rico.


New Centers: (1) Mobile unit
Total projected federal funding: 1 year, $235,787.00

Total projected non-federal funding: 1 year, $110,550.00





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