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The Digital Equity Toolkit
National Institute for Community Innovations
Designed for educators seeking help in addressing the digital divide, the Toolkit offers resources on finding inexpensive computers, affordable Internet service, web page hosting, sources of Internet-based curricula, and other topics. New resources are added weekly.
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Joining the On-Line Community: An Introduction for Adult Literacy
R. K. Reythemeyer, National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL), 1995
This "practice guide" was developed as an Internet primer for adult education providers. Nuts-and-bolts information on topics such as types of networks, hardware needed to get started, differences between Listservs, Usenets, and other internet tools. Appendices include an equipment check-off list and a selection of adult literacy information servers.
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Strategic Communications in the Digital Age: A best practices toolkit for achieving your organization’s mission
The Benton Foundation
A capacity-building project of the Benton Foundation documenting best practices and lessons learned among nonprofits in the area of communication technology. Topics include planning, evaluating, and funding communications technology, creating partnerships, reaching your audience, and others.
http://www.benton.org/publibrary/toolkits/stratcommtool.html

Techsoup.org
CompuMentor
A project of CompuMentor that provides web-based technology assistance to small and mid-size nonprofit organizations. How-to’s include articles, resource links, message board discussions, worksheets, and more, on topics such as hardware and software, assistive technology, databases, networks, technology planning, etc. Nonprofits can take advantage of discounted/donated hardware and software services for a small fee.
http://www.techsoup.org/