On June 15th, 2001, Support for Families of Children with Disabilities launched this web site thanks to collaboration among Teaming for Technology, San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program and San Francisco State Multimedia Studies Program Web Intensive students Kerry Egdell, Nitzan Danon, Laura Barsotti and Jinsoo Kim, administration and faculty.

As San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Web Design Intensive Certificate Program students, our final project is the design and implementation of a website for Support for Families, a nonprofit organization. Teaming for Technology, a collaborative agency of United Way of America, AmeriCorps*VISTA and IBM, selected and facilitated five nonprofit agencies to acquire the technology and knowledge to benefit from having a professional web site tailored to their needs. We, the student teams, made a selection and it was SFCD.

We felt this remarkable organization makes a significant contribution to the community of families with children who are disabled or have special healthcare needs. SFCD brings families together and provides them with information, education and parent-to-parent support free of charge. We thought SFCD's mission to help the community was extremely important and we believe so much in what they do.

Teaming for Technology San Francisco assists Bay Area nonprofit agencies in crossing the digital divide as a part of America's Promise. Founded in Philadelphia at the President's Summit for America's Future in April,1997, America's Promise pledges to bring technology and information to nonprofit agencies in sixteen American cities and is chaired by General Colin L. Powell.

Working through the local offices of the United Way and its affiliates with IBM providing the technology funding, AmeriCorps*VISTA members implement a plan enhancing technology in selected local, community based organizations. Macromedia provided the software to the agencies to enable them to maintain their websites. Teaming for Technology San Francisco has joined with Northern California Council for the Community through the United Way to strengthen and expand the capacity of these organizations to provide services to Bay Area communities.