May 2, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute
SBC Communications will award grants totaling $25-million through its foundation this year to nonprofit technology projects in the 13 states in which the company provides telecommunications services.
The San Antonio company is calling the new effort SBC Excelerator. The SBC Foundation will award $10-million in grants to technology projects that strengthen the ability of nonprofit organizations to serve their clients or that bring technology access and training to people who are poor, live in rural or inner-city areas, have a disability, or are members of minority groups.
Applications for the grant program are due by June 3.
The remaining $15-million will be distributed through the foundation’s general grant making to projects that seek to use technology to serve society.
The foundation has already awarded two large grants as part of its new program:
- $1-million is being shared by three national organizations that provide technology assistance to charities — CompuMentor and TechRocks, in San Francisco, and NPower, in Seattle — to develop technology tools designed for nonprofit organizations and to help groups make better use of technology in their work.
- $1-million went to the American Association of Community Colleges, in Washington, and BreakAway Technologies, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles that provides technology training and other services to individuals, charities, and businesses, to develop curriculums that can be used to help low-wage workers gain technology job skills.
For more information: Go to http://www.sbc.com/foundation.
