Network Projects
In addition to the services offered by local NPower affiliates, NPower National works with grant-making partners to bring strategic technology consulting services to nonprofit organizations across the country. By leveraging our network of experienced nonprofit technology consultants across the country, NPower is able to provide coordinated, high-quality services to cohorts of organizations regardless of geographic location.
Learn more about how you can partner with NPower to provide strategic technology services to organizations in a specific region or sector, or for organizations that you support. Or contact us to talk about how we can work together.
Strategic Technology Assistance to Youth-Serving Organizations
Funded by: The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
In partnership with: TechSoup.org/CompuMentor
NPower, in collaboration with TechSoup.org/CompuMentor, is providing strategic technology assistance to Edna McConnell Clark Foundation grantees to help them use technology to improve and grow their programs and services.
Measuring the Impact of Nonprofit Technology Assistance
Funded by: The Carnegie Corporation, the Cisco Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Surdna Foundation
In partnership with: N-TEN
NPower, in partnership with N-TEN, is spearheading a three-year evaluation effort to measure and understand technology's impact on nonprofit mission achievement and to identify which types of assistance and services best help nonprofits use technology to achieve maximum community impact.
Helping New Orleans Organizations Recover from Hurricane Katrina
Funded by: Microsoft Corporation
In partnership with: Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations
NPower and LANO are working together to give a group of New Orleans organizations the technology assistance they need to rebuild, recover, and help the city and its residents get back on their feet. This one-year project is funded through a grant from Microsoft.
Technology Assistance for Organizations Serving Communities of Color
Funded by: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Thanks to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, NPower has completed a three-year initiative in partnership with nonprofits serving communities of color to understand and respond to unique needs they face putting technology to work for their missions.
Technology Training Grants
Funded by: Verizon Foundation
NPower affiliates are offering technology training grants to organizations across the country, thanks to the Verizon Foundation Resource Center.
Past Projects
CDC Assistance
Funded by: Living Cities
In partnership with: LISC & The Enterprise Foundation
NPower and Living Cities (The National Community Development Initiative) partnered to assess and raise the level of technology capacity for community development corporations in 15 cities across the country.
C. S. Mott Foundation Re-Granting Compliance Project
Funded by: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
In partnership with: CompuMentor
Through a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, NPower provided software training and technical assistance to all Mott grantees to help them understand and comply with new list-checking regulations of the USA PATRIOT Act. Along with CompuMentor, we worked to ensure that nonprofits had the necessary technology in place to comply with these new requirements.
SBC Excelerator Services
Funded by: SBC Foundation
Through a generous grant from the SBC Excelerator program, NPower, working through the NPower Network and other partner organizations, offered hands-on technology consulting and training services to nonprofits in the 13 states where SBC's employees live and work.
Inspiring Wireless Innovation
Funded by: AT&T Wireless (now Cingular Wireless)
