Digital Promise provides a range of support services, including operating an ongoing hardware and software clearinghouse, providing technical training and instruction, assisting in grant-writing, and connecting computer centers and their staff with technical and moral support.

Digital Promise works in partnership with the private sector, community-based non-profits, government agencies, affordable housing centers and residents to realize the vision of a community where no one is left behind.

About this directory
This directory is collection of useful websites that lab coordinators can refer to as they provide programs and services to the users of their community technology center (CTC). It is by no means comprehensive, and is intended to be a document that will change and grow, as content on the world wide web evolves. The inclusion of commercial sites in this directory is not intended to be an endorsement of those companies, but rather to provide examples of website content that clients in a CTC might seek.

The directory was first prepared as a Microsoft Word document then rendered as an Adobe PDF file. In either case the intent is for the user to be able to access the resource quickly by selecting the hyperlink. When using the directory as a Word document select the link by pressing the CTRL key and clicking with the left mouse button. When a web link resource is selected the URL (Uniform Resource Link) opens in your Web Browser. When using the PDF version the mouse will change into a hand, by clicking the left mouse button the link will be activated and a browser will open to the website.

The Word document is recommended for staff use when they wish to update an outdated link or customize the Directory for their center. The PDF document is recommended for the center user. The PDF format does not allow for changes but can be searched using the search command provided by the Adobe Reader software.

A center can load the PDF file onto the desktop of each computer by copying the file from the CD and placing it on the computers’ desktop.

This “Quick Link Directory” is the result of Seattle-based Digital Promise a non-profit organization created to support the efforts of technology centers in HUD housing. The funding for this Directory’s creation is from the City of Seattle Bill Wright Technology Matching Fund.

The Websites that have to do with local resources are for the Seattle area. At the end of this Word document there is a section for your local center and your neighborhood. You are encouraged to select the URLs your center uses or could use. Enter them into the Word document save the document with a new file name, like the name of your center and send it to esquared@scn.org or info@digital-promise.org. Volunteers have agreed to distill your document into a PDF file that will lock it from being changed yet allow users to click on the links to the resource websites.

A word on how to use this disk and the documents.

Comments and questions can be directed to Digital Promise’s website. We hope you will find this Quick Link Directory useful.

Ellen Earth, Project Coordinator