[Imc] Progressive tech resources

[Peter Miller]

I don't know if anyone will find these things useful, but I've found Rich 
Cowan's work helpful in the past.
-Peter

>Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:06:33 -0400
>From: "Rich Cowan" <org-c at organizenow.net>
>To: "Peter Miller" <peterm at shout.net>
>
>We thought you might be interested in our newly updated list of
>web resources most relevant to nonprofits, technology, and social
>change activism.  Our intern, Rachel Pinsky, completed it this week.
>
>The list is now up at the Organizers' Collaborative web site:
>     http://organizenow.net/links.html
>
>The resources are organized into the following  11 categories.  (Did we
>miss anything?  Please tell Rachel at rapinsky at organizenow.net !)
>
>1. Computer Recycling and Time Donation
>2. Computer-Assisted Activism and Advocacy
>3. Free Web Services: Listservs, Message Boards, Net Access,
>      Advanced WebHosting, Petitions, Survey Tools
>4. Free Software and Open Source Projects
>5. Grassroots Organizing and Movement Building
>6. Non-Profit Support and Online Fundraising
>7. Online Databases Useful for Activists
>8. Social Implications and Public Interest
>9. Social Justice Portals and Sites:  Issue based,
>       Constituency based, and Geographically based
>10. Social Justice Sites With Online Directories
>11. Technical Assistance for Nonprofits
>
>Also, thanks to recent grants from Ben & Jerry's and from Haymarket
>Foundation, we are now developing two new projects:  a
>comprehensive directory of social change email lists in the US
>and free software for e-organizing and membership databases.
>If you want to be involved in creating or testing our new
>software, please contact us org-c at organizenow.net.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>-Rich Cowan
>Founder and President
>
>P.S. The Organizers' Collaborative is a two-year-old organization that
>fosters more effective use of computers and the Internet by grassroots
>social change groups.  If you want to support this work, please see
>our web site at http://organizenow.net/join.html.  Thanks!
>
>
>Organizers' Collaborative        http://organizenow.net
>P.O. Box 400897, Cambridge, MA  02140     617-427-1228 x108