>·":~•~•! ~" ~ ,,,..,_. ';::," - - ',' {"~ .. ••A ••• :- ·~- -. .~,' • .,,, ' ' ' '·' :..,.. -.• '• " l•r. ·:: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY NEWS NONPROFIT COMPUTER CENTERS The Technology Resources Consortium is a consortium of five nonprofit computer resource centers around the country formed to help nonprofits adapt to new technologies The Technology Resource Consortium (TRC), a network of community nonprofit computer resource centers, has been formed. The consortium promotes the effective use of information technology by nonprofit organizations through enhancement of existing computer resource centers and the development of programs to help develbp other resource centers, and to help nonprofit organizations in areas unserved by the resource centers. The TRC was formed over the last two years as staff of five computer resource centers met several times to share information, and find ways to work together with the common goal of enabling nonprofit organizations to better fulfill their own missions through the use and management of information technologies. The five founding groups are: The Public Interest Computer Association in Washington, DC, The Information Technology Resource Center in Chicago, the Technology Resource Center, of the Center for Nonprofit Management in Dallas, the Computer Help and Information Program at the Southern California Center for Nonprnfit Managment in Los Angeles, and the Information Technology Institute, a part of the Center for Urban Education, in Portland, Oregon. In the next 18 months the consortium will: develop a method for evaluating nonprofit computer education programs; develop a method for evaluating software, specifically for nonprofit applications, such as fund accounting, fundraising, and membership management; develop a collection of nonprofit computer training materials; develop a clearinghouse to distribute information to the resource centers, and to field questions from nonprofits around the country needing computer applications information; develop methods for assisting nonprofits in areas not served by the resource centers. The centers, which have been provided substantial support through Apple's Community Affairs Program, use Applelink, Apple online communication system and online technical database. Through Applelink, and the development of electronic bulletin boards at each site, the centers will be sharing information electronically, working with each other while helping nonprofits in their areas. For More Information: Denise Vesuvio, Public Interest Computer Association, 2001 0 St., NW, Washington, DC 20036 NONPROFIT COMPUTER EXCHANGE IN NEW YORK CITY New York center provides consulting services, direct computer support, consumer-research and seminars The Nonprofit Computer Exchange (NCE) is a project of the Fund for the City of New York. It is collaboratively funded by the Exxon Corporation, the Fund for the City of New York, the Greater New York Fund, the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and the New York Community Trust. It was created to help not-for-profit organizations in New York City take advantage of computer technology by offering ongoing consulting services, direct computer support, consumer research, seminars, and occasional briefings on emerging technologies. Members can use a computer lab for group trainings, or routine data processing. More extended services are provided to organizations that become members of the Computer Exchange. The annual membership fee is equal to one-tenth of one percent of an organization's annual operating budget with a minimum of $300 and maximum of $750. The exchange's newsletter, Up and Running, provides information about NCE services as well as articles on.nonprofit computer application subjects. For More Information: Nonprofit Computer Exchange, c/o Fund for the City of New York, 419 Park Ave., S., 16th Floor, New York, NY 10016, 212-481-1799. Fall/Winter 1986 RAIN Page 33
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