The Technology Steering Committee was formed in November 2002 to define a clear, field-wide vision for the technology and infrastructure requirements community foundations need to meet over the next few years. They will advance an agenda to reach new levels of technology readiness, capacity and infrastructure. This group is co-sponsored by Community Foundations of America and the Council on Foundations' Community Foundations Leadership Team.
The committee contains more than 20 members spanning the key representative organizations and users groups in the field as well as technology-savvy partners. While the committee’s priorities continue to evolve, the founding focus was to advance our field in the following areas where research shows we have immediate opportunities.
The mission of the Technology Steering Committee is to:
Monitor the technology environment for issues and trends that are important to the field
Build and promote consensus around a vision for future technology development in the field; prioritize areas for investment to reach that vision and oversee selected development projects
Establish shared minimum development specifications/protocols
Serve as a strong, single voice to create leverage with vendors
Promote information sharing, education and training within the field
The Technology Initiative The Steering Committee's Technology Initiative is a series of integrated and prioritized development activities to build community foundation technology readiness, capacity and infrastructure over the next three years. The plan proposes carefully selected improvements to current systems and, at the same time, provides the catalyst needed to drive development of “next generation” core system software. The areas of focus include:
