By teaming up with local colleges, this organization provides a curriculum that instructs, mentors, and offers recruiting solutions for employing IT professionals. To Create A More Diverse Workforce. Illinois Coalition 100 W Randolph St, Chicago A nonprofit organization of leaders in business, government, labor and academia working to encourage technology-based economic development in Illinois. Their goal is to enhance teaching and learning through the internet and other computer technologies. TECH 37 Tech 37, a pilot program in three local high schools, will expand to several more city schools.
Participants meet for three hours three times a week to learn about various tech fields.
I.T. Resource Center 29 E. Madison St. 16th Floor, Chicago The IT Resource Center enables nonprofit organizations to achieve their goals through effective use of technology. ChicagoServes harnesses the power of the Internet to benefit community-based, advocacy and social service groups by linking volunteers and student interns with community service opportunities in the Chicagoland area. A project of the IT Resource Center, a Chicago nonprofit established in 1984 to provide cost-effective and objective computerization assistance to regional nonprofits and government agencies. CompuMentor provides individualized on-site services to IT Resource Center members via the the work of technologically skilled volunteers. BottomLess Closet 445 N. Wells, Suite 301 Chicago Bottomless Closet provides an innovative, hands-on program that supplies business clothing and career development training to women on assistance seeking work.