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Case Studies
Sociedad Latina
Massachusetts Veterans, Inc.
St. Katherine Drexel
Young Entrepreneurs Society

Connections for Tomorrow

From 2003-2005, CTCNet managed the capacity-building Connections for Tomorrow (C4T) project.  These pages provide details about this innovative grant-making and technical assistance partnership -- and its impacts on community technology programs across the country.

Project Summary

C4T provided grants, direct technical assistance, and workshops to community and faith-based organizations that provided technology skills training for at-risk youth and/or homeless populations.  

Over the three-year period, C4T provided a total of:

“C4T was one of the most supportive funders I have encountered in my 10 years of nonprofit work. The technical assistance and support were exceptional.”


Worcester Youth Center
2005 C4T Grantee

The geographic focus of the C4T grants changed each year from Illinois (2003) to California (2004) to Massachusetts (2005).  Visit the C4T Grants page for a complete list of grantees and the amounts they received. As a complement to the cash grants, individualized technical assistance and workshops were offered each year to organizations in all three states. Visit the Technical Assistance page to learn more about this capacity-building work.

“I really appreciate the way C4T reached out to help us get this grant, and provided ongoing networking support. We have innovated some powerful new uses of technology that might not have been possible if it were not for this grant.”

Cabrini Connections
2003 Grantee

The third component of the C4T project focused on increasing the accessibility of community technology programs for people with disabilities. Visit the Access page to learn about our approach.

The C4T Partnership

CTCNet served as the managing partner of the C4T project and it was developed and delivered as a collaboration between three organizational partners:


“C4T has been VERY useful. It has expanded our activities in ways we didn't expect.”

HELP of Ojai
2004 Grantee

The C4T partners brought together an especially strong combination of skills in technology, accessibility, programmatic and organizational development. Combined membership of the partners included more than 1,900 community-based organizations.

Funding

The C4T project was made possible by a grant from the Compassion Capital Fund of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Matching programmatic support was provided by each of the above organizational partners as well as:

“[C4T’s] initial funding has allowed us to receive more grant funding from other foundations to continue [our work].”

Castle Square Tenants Association
2005 Grantee