Technology Grantmaking Toolkit: Practical tools for technology
grantmaking in Canada's voluntary sector
About the Changing Technology Funding Practices Project …
This paper was prepared for the Changing Technology Funding Practices
Project, an initiative funded through the Voluntary Sector Initiative
(VSI) Information Management / Information Technology (IM/IT) Secretariat,
and housed within Industry Canada. The VSI is a joint initiative
between the Government of Canada and Canada's Voluntary Sector.
Acknowledgements
This toolkit has benefited from the experience and skills of
many technology wizards, not-for-profit practitioners and foundation
partners. We are grateful for the tremendous contributions of
Dave Averill, Jon Stahl and Jodie Tonita of ONE/Northwest BC,
and Donna Barker of Adisen Communications to this toolkit. We
are also grateful to a number of allies and partners for allowing
us to reprint materials, notably TechSoup, Charity Village, Npower,
Volunteers Online, ItrainOnline, Summit Collaborative and Dotorg
Media.
We are also grateful to funding partners who contributed their
stories. In particular, we thank the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation,
the Maytree Foundation, the Muttart Foundation, the Ontario Trillium
Foundation and the United Way of Halifax/Dartmouth. We thank project
champions Don McCreesh, Martin Itzkow, Larry Gemmel, Peter Mortimer
and Alan Bentley for their ideas on what would make this toolkit
useful.
We appreciate the efforts of the staff team at Industry Canada
for their support and stewardship. We also acknowledge the contributions
of our project partners and allies, notably Ariane Pelletier of
Communautique and Dr Gillian Kerr of RealWorld Systems. Thanks
to our patient translator, Marie Lamontagne, and to Sarah McPherson,
Helesia Luke and Christopher Heald of the IMPACS Communications
Centre.
January 2005
Catherine Ludgate, IMPACS
Mark Surman, Commons Group
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