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On
December 15th, 2000, APA Family Support Services will
receive this web site thanks to collaboration between
Teaming for Technology, San
Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program
and San Francisco State Multimedia Studies Program Web
Intensive students (pictured above from left to right:
Rachael Maughan,
Kevin McNamee and Rebecca
Carino), administration and faculty.
As
San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Web
Design Intensive Certificate Program students, our final
project is the design and implementation of a website
for APA Family Support Services, a nonprofit organization.
Teaming
for Technology, a collaborative agency of United
Way of America, AmeriCorps*VISTA
and IBM,
selected and facilitated six non-profit agencies to
aquire the technology and knowledge to benefit from
having a professional web site tailored to their needs.
We the student teams made a selection and our
team chose APA Family Support Services.
We
felt this remarkable organization makes a significant
contribution to the community and improves the lives
of children and families. We love the diversity and
the opportunities found in San Francisco and we realized
that the unique nature of APA's programs helps create
a strand of the weave that binds our communities together
and makes us citizens of one of the greatest cities
of the world.
Teaming for Technology San Francisco assists Bay Area
non-profit agencies in crossing the digital divide as
a part of America's Promise. Founded in Philadelphia
at the President's Summit for America's Future in April,
1997, America's Promise pledges to bring technology
and information to non-profit agencies in sixteen American
cities and is chaired by General Colin L. Powell.
Working through the local offices of the United Way
and its affiliates with IBM providing the technology
funding, AmeriCorps*VISTA
members implement a plan enhancing technology in selected
local, community-based organizations. Macromedia
provided the software to the agencies to enable them
to maintain their websites. Teaming for Technology San
Francisco has joined with Northern
California Council for the Community through the
United Way to strengthen and expand the capacity of
these organizations to provide services to Bay Area
communities.
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