Says Nelson Layag, Director of Technology for CompassPoint: "The original concept behind TrainingPoint was to share resources among the people and organizations that provide technology assistance to nonprofit organizations. But we think there is an even broader audience for this tool. For example, community technology centers (CTCs) that have had to develop their own curricula to serve their clients, whether children, new immigrants, or adults in job training programs, can now turn to TrainingPoint as a free resource for these materials."

A primary feature of TrainingPoint is the ability to download complete training materials and teaching guides for technology tools and software programs in the following major topic areas: Basic Computer Skills, Computer Applications, the Internet, Specialized Software, and Technology Management/Planning. The site features the curricula of training providers from all around the nation, including submissions from some of the premier training and technology providers to nonprofits in the country. Among the titles already included at the site are: CompassPoint's Database Camp for MS Access and Word for the Self-Taught, Michael Stein Internet Consulting'sYour Internet Strategy: Best Uses of Email and the Web, and NPower NY's Networking Basics.

Also, site users don't have to take the word of the curricula posters as the only source of feedback on the materials. TrainingPoint allows any user to post their feedback on a curriculum to the site for others to consider. So the only real promotion on the quality of a given curriculum comes from peers and others in the nonprofit community.

For more information on TrainingPoint contact:
Cristina Chan, Special Projects Director
Nelson Layag, Technology Director