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2004 Technology Matching Fund Projects

The City awarded $85,000 in matching funds for thirteen community technology projects ths year. Seattle was the first city in the country to provide technology matching funds for electronic democracy projects.

Read the 2004 Press Release

Grant Award: $3,500

Educate and mobilize adult sufferers of chronic lung disease by creating citizen web-log sites for awareness raising, health education and community problem solving over issues relating to lung disease.

Grant Award: $3,700

Help parents and care providers to learn how to use technology to advocate for themselves and others through evening workshops and open lab time at the Leschi Community Technology Access Center.

Grant Award: $4,500

Increase technology literacy by serving citizens in recovery from substance abuse and adults for whom English is a second language. Teach computer basics, the Internet, email and various desktop applications.

Grant Award: $9,000

Engage teachers and students to map and analyze the ecological and cultural assets and liabilities in their community using GIS software. Students create digital and paper community resource maps and make recommendations to neighborhood groups on areas for improvement.

Grant Award: $9,000

Increase the diversity of participation in International District improvement. The project will bring youth and seniors together, using digital cameras and PDA’s to assess conditions and capture important images of their community. The results will be used to engage the International District community and policymakers in a dialog intended to positively impact neighborhood policies.

Grant Award: $9,000

Upgrade assistive technology to current standards. This will allow Lighthouse to improve computer training and access to technology to Deaf-Blind adults with varying needs.

Grant Award: $4,500

Expand the computer tutoring program through intensive recruitment of volunteers and students, a new project-based computer curriculum and increased volunteer trainings.

Grant Award: $2,500

To implement and market publicly-available, free wireless Internet access in Westlake Park. The project will include hardware installation and maintenance as well as enhancements of the project's web portal for Wi-Fi users.

Grant Award: $9,000

Create a volunteer program which will provide short-term assistance and tutoring to help homebound neighbors and seniors in the North End make full use of their computers.

Grant Award: $7,000

Offer computer training workshops to adults and school age children to use technology for communication, research and as a way to support their children with their homework. The project will be delivered around the school’s dinner-time program and will focus on ESL and low-income families.

Grant Award: $9,000

Expand Goodwill’s training services and use existing computer labs to provide 190 low-income members of central and southeast Seattle with improved educational competency through basic computer training, ESOL computer training, and introduction to community resources via the Internet. This project is a collaboration of Goodwill with CAMP, the Metropolitan Urban League of Seattle, Powerful Schools, Associates in Cultural Exchange and Somali Community Services.

Grant Award: $5,500

Purchase additional computers and train youth clients to use computers to create resumes, and learn about topics, new cultures and other information and to use the Internet to search information for homework studies.

Grant Award: $9,000

Expand programming to include digital bridge program to teach computer hardware skills to at least twenty-five high school dropouts, ages 16-21. Students will earn a fully functioning computer to take home.

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