Connections for All:
AccessNow Award
The AccessNow Awards, consisting of a $1000 grant as well as technical assistance, were designed to help CTCs learn about and implement simple and cost-effective ways to improve their programs and facilities to make them more inviting and accessible to people with a broad range of abilities. Two AccessNow Award recipients were randomly selected at each day of the Accessibility Institutes .
Congratulations to the recipients of the AccessNow Awards:
- Project for Pride in Living (Minneapolis MN)
- Center for Opportunities (St. Paul MN)
- Cleveland Housing Network (Cleveland OH)
- Lawndale Christian Development Corporation (Chicago IL)
- East End Life Center (Houston TX)
- Tech For All (Houston TX)
- Technology Expanding Community Horizons / Waco TECH (Waco TX)
- Irving.Net (Irving TX)
- Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House (Long Island City NY)
- Fort Greene Strategic Neighborhood Action Partnership (Brooklyn NY)
- Centro Latino de Educacion Popular (Los Angeles CA)
- San Diego Community Housing Corporation (El Cajon CA)
- San Diego Public Library (San Diego CA)
- Community Access Center (Riverside CA)
- Capitol Hill Computer Center (Washington DC)
- The Dakota Center (Dayton OH)
- Firebaugh Computer Learning Center (Firebaugh CA)
- Bridges to Digital Excellence (Benton Harbor MI)
- Self-Help for the Elderly (San Francisco CA)
- Eastmont Computing Center (Oakland CA)
- East Tennessee Technology Access Center (Knoxville TN)
- The Center for Urban Missions (Birmingham AL)
- Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (Boston MA)
- Greenwood Shalom Outreach Community (Dorchester MA)
AccessNow Award Details
Each AccessNow Award included the following:
- Technical assistance from ATA and/or a local Assistive Technology Resource Center that supported the grantee in the following:
- Understanding the types of assistive technologies available that would best suit a direct need of their CTC and that could be purchased using the $1000 AccessNow funds, and
- Learning how to use the new assistive technology purchased through the grant.
$1000 grant used toward the purchase of the assistive technology that helped increase the CTC's accessibility to community members with learning, vision, hearing, cognitive, and/or physical impairments.