C4T Technical Assistance
“I particularly liked how C4T provided consultant funds and allowed organizations to choose their own consultant to meet their cultural and linguistic needs. [Our consultant] helped our agency refine its accounting practices to better match the growth of our agency.”
Korean Community Center of
the East Bay
2004 Grantee
Each year, Connections for Tomorrow offered grants for direct technical assistance (TA) contracts and provided group workshops to CTCs in Illinois, California and Massachusetts. From 2002-2005, this work resulted in:
- 241 individualized assistance contracts to CTCs and 5,192 hours of direct technical assistance, and
- 47 capacity-building workshops across the country.
Organizations awarded direct TA also received free access to individualized consulting services and C4T partners’ resources, including:
- CTCNet Start Up Manual , CTCNet
- CTC Resource Center, CTCNet
- Guide to Low-Cost/No-Cost Tools for People with Disabilities, ATA
- Computer Resources for People with Disabilities, ATA
- Access Aware Manual, ATA
- Capacity-Building and Curriculum Manual, TechMission
- Free one-year memberships in the C4T partner organizations
- Access to national and regional email discussions lists
- Free attendance to pre-conference days at national conferences hosted by the C4T partners