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| TrainingPoint - New Portal for Sharing Technology Curricula for Nonprofits | |
| 05-13-2002 | |
Contact: SAN FRANCISCO (13 May 2002) - Sharing technology training expertise in the nonprofit community got easier today with the launch of TrainingPoint (http://www.trainingpoint.org). Now, organizations looking for up-to-date training manuals on Excel, FileMaker, and other software and technology topics can download these curricula from others for FREE. At TrainingPoint, registered participants can share their curricula with peers, as well as provide feedback about materials and knowledge about training. The site aims to improve the capacity of the nonprofit training community by providing a resource that increases the availability of quality training materials and nonprofit organizations' access to them. TrainingPoint is an experimental project with the goal of creating a self-supporting online community of nonprofit technical assistance providers. As such, the long-term success and viability of this site will depend on the participation and support it receives from the community it strives to serve. Nelson Layag, Director of Technology for CompassPoint, commented, “The original concept behind TrainingPoint was to share resources among the people and organizations that provide technology assistance to nonprofit organizations. But we think there is an even broader audience for this tool. For example, community technology centers (CTCs) that have had to develop their own curricula to serve their clients, whether children, new immigrants, or adults in job training programs, can now turn to TrainingPoint as a free resource for these materials.” A primary feature of TrainingPoint is the ability to download complete training materials for technology tools and software programs in the following major topic areas: Basic Computer Skills, Computer Applications, the Internet, Specialized Software, and Technology Management/Planning. The site features the curricula of training providers from all around the nation, including submissions from some of the premier training and technology providers to nonprofits in the country. Among the titles already included at the site are: CompassPoint’s Database Camp for MS Access and Word for the Self-Taught, Michael Stein Internet Consulting’sYour Internet Strategy: Best Uses of Email and the Web, and NPower NY’s Networking Basics. Also, site users don’t have to take the word of the curricula posters as the only source of feedback on the materials. TrainingPoint allows any user to post their feedback on a curriculum to the site for others to consider. So the only real promotion on the quality of a given curriculum comes from peers and others in the nonprofit community. CompassPoint Nonprofit Services led the development of this new curriculum sharing tool. CompassPoint is a leading nonprofit training and consulting organization with offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Site design and engineering was provided by Tensa, a provider of strategic technology planning and social change technology for nonprofits, and Prajna IT Consulting, a systems integrator providing start-to-finish architecture, implementation and deployment software services. Implementation of this project was made possible through the generous support of The Packard Foundation and TechFoundation. For more information contact: About CompassPoint Nonprofit ServicesWith offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services is a nonprofit consulting and training organization. Through a broad range of services including consulting, research, information dissemination, workshops, and conferences, CompassPoint strives to provide the best management tools and concepts to help nonprofits better serve their communities. For more information, visit http://www.compasspoint.org. Related Links: |
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