Milestones

• August 2001 - CompuMentor convenes first meeting with support America Connects Consortium. Organized by Leonard McNeil of the Crescent Park Multicultural Family Resource Center, this event is held at the offices of Microsoft in San Francisco and is attended by 80 people. CompuMentor creates first Bay Area Directory of Community Technology Programs.
  
  
• Late 2001 - First CTN Steering Committee forms. Begins strategic planning. Email listserv launched.
  
  
• April 2002 - First major conference is held at Saleforce.Com Offices, and is attended by over 200 people. Event is supported by America Connects Consortium ($2,000), Saleforce.Com ($5,000), and massive hours of volunteer labor. Steering Committee expands.
  
  
• August 2002 - CTN hosts Designing Video Programs For Youth event presented by Madeline Lim of the Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center. Event is held at offices of Parental Stress Service, Inc. in Oakland.
  
  
• September, 2002 - CTN receives $25,000 grant from the Community Collaborative Fund of the California Consumer Protection Foundation.
  
  
• November, 2002 - CTN receives $15,000 planning grant from the Community Technology Foundation of California.
  
  
• November, 2002 - Hook Your Community with Exciting Programs event presented by curriculum specialist Barbara Bray of Computer Strategies, LLC.
  
  
• Late 2002 - CTN web site launched.
  
  
• May, 2003 - Annual conference held in Oakland. Jeff Carr, Executive Director of the Bresee Foundation in Los Angeles, is keynote speaker. Third Bay Area Directory of Community Technology Programs distributed.
  
  
• September, 2003 - CTN received $25,000 grant from the Community Collaborative Fund of the California Consumer Protection Foundation for 2003/04.
  
  
• October, 2003 - Steering Committee holds strategic planning retreat. This meeting results in a consensus on CTN's organizing principles (why we do what we do, who we serve, and what we do) and our operating principals (how we do what we do and where we focus our limited resources), and identified CTN priorities and member projects for 2003/2004.
  
  
• November, 2004 - Digital Storytelling with BrainGlow event co-sponsored by the Bay Area Video Coalition.
  
  
• May, 2004 - Third Annual Conference held at the San Francisco LGBT Center.
  
  
• June, 2004 - CTN gets awarded VISTA Volunteer though CTCNet's VISTA Project. VISTA to begin work in September of 2004.
  
  
• September, 2004- AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer joins CTN,working half-time with CompuMentor.
  
  
• October, 2004- CTN received $115,000 grant form Community Collaborative Fund of California Consumer Protection Foundation for 2004/05.