Trabian Shorters is founding President of Technology Works for Good, a network of nonprofits, technical assistance providers, funders and partners dedicated to putting digital technology to work in community-based nonprofits.
Mr. Shorters is a former Technology Circuit Rider for the Rockefeller Technology Project where, in 1999, he aided 50 grantees of the Washington DC-based Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation to improve their organizational capacity via technology. His concept of "Technology Cultures"” is helping to refine the focus of nonprofit technology support in the National Capital Region. His fieldwork in community-based nonprofits, the funding community, and among technical assistance providers earned him recognition as one of "100 People To Watch" in Washingtonian Magazine.
A former Director of the Leadership Development Institute at the National Urban Coalition, Trabian has published widely on the subjects of diversity, social change, and leadership. He graduated with top honors from Michigan State University School of Journalism and was an inaugural Y.E.S. Ambassador of the Points of Light Foundation in 1991. At the age of 24, he was a lead organizer of youth service practitioners and participants who drafted the AmeriCorps National Service proposal to the incoming Clinton administration. He has served as director of the M. Carl Holman Leadership Development Institute of the National Urban Coalition. From there, he served as a fund development and technology consultant until signing on as a Circuit Rider in 1999.
He serves on the Leadership Committee of Independent Sector, was a founder and the youngest board officer of the National African American Male Collaboration, and was an external reviewer for the Hitachi Foundation’s annual Yoshiyama Award.
This year as founder of Technology Works for Good, he will leverage investments from Microsoft, America Online, Fannie Mae, the Meyer Foundation and many national and regional partners to create a new system for supporting the integration of technology into our community-based institutions.
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