TOP's Fiscal Year 2002 Grantees

• The Neighborhood Knowledge California (NKCA) Telecommunication Project assembles a wide variety of public and private databases to expand opportunities for home ownership through fair housing and lending research, education, and policy development.
  

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  Neighborhood Knowledge California

• Project GILEAD is developing the nation's first online service linking faith-based human service providers and their clientele in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  

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  Project GILEAD

• The Emery Water Conservancy District is developing an interactive network to help resolve land use conflicts and improve security and public safety in the state of Utah.
  

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  Emery Water Conservancy District

• The Chicago Police Department, in partnership with the Chicago Office of Emergency Communications, the Chicago Fire Department, and Motorola, is using TOP funds to wirelessly extend public safety officials' IT infrastructure.
  

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  The Chicago Police Department

• Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts is developing an online community to sustain professional development opportunities in literacy and the performing arts for early childhood educators.
  

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  The Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

• The Kalispel Tribe of Indians is using broadband digital network technologies to assist Indian tribes in eastern Washington preserve and sustain their shared tribal culture, history, and language.
  

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  Kalispel Tribe of Indians

• The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, & Consumer Protection is integrating data into a cohesive system, significantly improving the Department's enforcement capabilities and increasing the potential for early detection of potentially disastrous problems.
  

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  The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, & Consumer Protection

• The Harrison County (WV) Board of Education is developing Project SAFE (School Action for Emergencies), the nation's first school safety program in which emergency responders will access video from school cameras, using their laptops while enroute, onsite, and from the county command center.
  

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  Project SAFE

• Indiana University's POLIS Center is using adaptive technology to create an online system for underserved communities to get access to relevant and understandable data that they can use to address issues affecting their lives.
  

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  The Polis Center

• Eastern Michigan University's WEBPOLIS uses a networked virtual work environment for inter- and intra-city collaboration. WebPolis allows residents, community leaders, agency officials, and local elected officials to share applications, databases, and participate in online conferences.
  

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  WebPolis

• A Circle of Support Across America, a project of PATCHWORX in San Mateo, California, enables hospital-bound children to reach each other across the barriers of distance and disability, helps them develop coping skills, and shows them how to find the kind of information that can turn them into "proactive patients."
  

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  A Circle of Support Across America

• EarnBenefitsOnline, a project of Seedco in New York City, is helping to keep Americans working by offering newly employed workers electronic access to post-job placement benefits in ten New York communities.
  

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  EarnBenefitsOnline

• Grace Hill Settlement House in St. Louis, Missouri, is developing a new program for families at its Head Start center, creating a bi-lingual web interface to improve online accessibility to parent orientation and training courses on Child Care, Parenting, Wellness, and Nutrition; providing parents with information on their children's Head Start progress; and facilitating access to other preventive health care information.
  

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  Grace Hill Settlement House