Teaming for Technology Colorado

The TechLaunch Selection Committee plays a vital role in helping Teaming for Technology Colorado select qualified organizations to receive computer hardware and training through the TechLaunch grant program.

TechLaunch finalist applications and site visit notes are reviewed by all members of the TechLaunch Selection Committee. Once complete, the input from the Selection Committee and representatives of T4T and IBM are compiled and the 2008 grant recipients decided.

Teaming for Technology Colorado is partnering with Goodwill Industries International, Inc. to provide an intensive three-hour MS PowerPoint training session to Goodwill Industries Marketing and Communications Directors during their Colorado Springs conference in late July.

Teaming for Technology Colorado received more than seventy applications this year for our IBM-sponsored TechLaunch grant. Fifteen finalists have been selected to receive site visits within the next few weeks.

T4T has now stopped accepting applications for TechLaunch 2008. Our thanks to all of the organizations who submitted applications. This year we received more than sixty applications and we will be reviewing them over the course of the coming days. During the week of April 21st, we hope to contact those organizations selected to advance to the next stage of the grant process, which consists of site visits by T4T staff. At that time, we will also be notifying those organizations that were not selected to advance.

Best of luck to all the applicants!

Last week the T4T team had the opportunity to attend the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference sponsored by NTEN. Held in New Orleans, the conference brought together over one thousand nonprofit IT professionals, including many "accidental techies" like myself. From David Pogue's opening talk to the discussion led by Editor-in-Chief of LouisianaRebuilds to the myriad breakout sessions over two full days, one thing was very clear: nonprofits need technology.

T4T can help! Through our TechLaunch grant program we have distributed more than $550,000 worth of brand new IBM/Lenovo computers to Colorado nonprofits over the past decade. Your organization could receive new desktops, laptops and/or laser network printers. Details and the online application form may be found on the TechLaunch page.

Don't forget--the deadline to apply is April 15, 2008!

If you are one of the many nonprofit employees whose office is transitioning to the MS Office 2007 Suite, you’ll be glad to know T4T volunteer Debbie Dalrymple.

Teaming for Technology Colorado partner, KidsTek, is teaming up with the Information Technology and Electronic Commerce department of the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, to co-sponsor the 1st Annual KidsTek Challenge.