We the students at Net Literacy thank Lilly Endowment for being our primary 2008 summer sponsor. We worked with dozens of nonprofits and community leaders to build the NESCO community website.

THANK YOU!

-Net Literacy student volunteers
 Near Eastside Community Organization

2236 East 10th Street Indianapolis Indiana 46201
Office: (317)633-7300 Fax: (317)633-3006


July 18, 2008

Dear Net Literacy,

In behalf of the Near Eastside Community Organization, our many partners, our community's leadership, and our 40,000 residents, thank you for strengthening the Near Eastside community by developing and building this community website for us.

This community portal ties the Near Eastside's rich past to our present, and describes our exciting vision for our future. For the first time, the Near Eastside's community resources are consolidated in one website, our community's challenges and solutions to those challenges are outlined, and very importantly, you have included a section encouraging community members and especially our youth to become involved in this process that is transforming the Near Eastside.

We appreciate that dozens of Net Literacy student volunteers collaborated together on this project. Student volunteers learned about the Near Eastside, some of the many nonprofits and organizations that that give strength to the Near Eastside, how to design and build a website, content management, video interviewing, video editing, and the job skills that were necessary to vision, develop, and build this website in during a fast-paced 96 hour summer program. NESCO is proud of the job that you did, and appreciates Net Literacy helping us pull together many Near Eastside leaders and resources to build a comprehensive website that will be enjoyed and used by so many residents. But most importantly, NESCO is proud of the youth empowered team effort of student volunteers that enabled our dream of a community website to become a reality. Thank you, Net Literacy!

While dozens of students from five schools participated in this project, I want to give special recognition to eight students from Arlington High School and Arsenal Technical High School. In behalf of NESCO, a special thanks goes to Eric Coleman, Josh Rafail, Rose Hooper, Adolphis Goodwin, Chakayla Winston, Lashae Wooden, and Anthony Hampton.


Net Literacy is a youth empowered nonprofit that uses technology to enable middle school, high school, and college students to become agents of change and social activists, engaging in youth philanthropy to help promote digital inclusion. Thank you Net Literacy, for helping to make a difference in the Near Eastside.

Sincerely,

Chuck Coleman
President

Note: This is a static website built by Net Literacy student volunteers from Arlington High School, Arsenal Tech High School, and Northwest High school students in July 2008. It has been designed to demonstrate how empowered students can impact our community and make a difference. This website was built during a summer program and donated to NESCO (the Near East Side Community Organization). INFORMATION IS ACCURATE AS OF JULY 2008 AND WILL NOT BE UPDATED AFTER BEING PRESENTED TO NESCO. For additional information about NESCO, please visit www.NESCOcommunity.org or www.nesconews.org. For additional information about Net Literacy, visit www.netliteracy.org. Net Literacy – where one person can make a difference – but together, we can change the world!