Our Supporters

In addition to overwhelming community support and input, CyberTribe has received funding from the following generous sources:

Humboldt Reigonal Occupational Program (HROP)

HROP has agreed to pay a lion's share of the CyberTribe Program Director's salary. They have also given us a yearly program support grant of $1,000 for supplies and expendables.

Also....

• California Endowment Fund
• McLean Foundation
• The S. H. Cowell Foundation
• The Van Loben Sells Foundation
• Arcata Foundation
• Humboldt Area Foundation
• CPC Computers
• Humboldt Internet
• Humboldt County Office of Education
• Los Bagels

We received a general purpose grant from the Mental Halth Department for $5,000.

We are an approved site for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Youth Development System. Youth from low income families will receive an hourly wage to participate in CyberTribe.

Another development has been a change in the demographics of the youth we are serving. Fewer of the CyberTribers are from middle class backgrounds; more are at-risk children referred to us by Juvenile Justice agencies. Humboldt County Probation Department has approved CyberTribe as a site for Community Service sentences for juveniles.

Outcomes achieved by CyberTribe thus far are as follows:

• consulting and advising for a teen Cyber Cafe in the near by community of Blue Lake, California;
• eighteen web site contracts fulfilled;
• stationary and logo design;
• assisting adults with computer skills;
• data entry for the League of Women Voters, Teen Vote 2000;
• the purchase and building from the ground up of an internet server;
• the location and set up of a tutorial center to train other inductees;
• the purchase and building from the ground up of ten work stations;
• the location and set up of a tutorial center to train other inductees;
• the creation of by-laws, committees and business, organizational and technical infrastructure including officers, taking of minutes and running of the business;
• presentations to multiple organizations including the Tech Fair; The Humboldt County NET; a monthly radio talk show; a live call in television talk show and several meetings with the press and television;
• a field trip to San Francisco to visit with Plugged In and ASAP, similar groups to learn from them;
• tutoring classes in Linux, the language of the internet donated time by Professor Sharon Tuttle of Humboldt State University;
• One year of free server co-location donated by Humboldt Internet;
• Acquisition of a $19,000 grant from Humboldt Area Foundation;
• Acquisition of a $17,000 grant from S.H. Cowell Foundation;
• Acquisition of a $10,000 grant from Van Loben Sells Foundation;
• Acquisition of a $15,000 grant from the McLean Foundation;
• Acquisition of a $13,000 grant from the McGowan Foundation;
• Acquisition of a $800 grant from The Arcata Foundation; and
• Received $5,000 anonymously donated to CyberTribe.
• Acquisition of a $25,000 grant from the California Endowment Fund Plus an additional three years of funding at $10,000 a year from The California Endowment Fund

The CyberTribe members have received the following training:

• Internships with local computer and business professionals
• graphic design
• web site design, HTML and creation ware
• lay out and publishing
• three different styles of Linux training- beginning, intermediate and advanced
• three different styles of Linux training- beginning, intermediate and advanced
• facilitation training
• digital video recording & video-editing
• public relations, including advertising and marketing
• public speaking and making presentations
• how to research suppliers and vendors for hardware and software and other equipment
• learned how to build computers
• learned how to install and configure software
• trained in computer networking
• learned about grant writing and funding
• learned how to create business correspondence and keep files
• learned how to prepare and execute an agenda
• learned how to record and compile minutes
• learned about interior construction in building their own workshop including basic structural, basic electrical and basic telephony and basic 100 Base-T ethernet.
• learned about interior construction in building their own workshop including basic structural, basic electrical and basic telephony and basic 100 Baset ethernet.
• trained in hardware diagnostic trouble shooting and repair
• trained in business planning
• trained in mass media production for press and television