About
About GenBridge.
GenBridge advances community capacity by making technology more accessible, relevant, and responsive to community needs. We build practical technology solutions, expand digital knowledge and skills, and promote meaningful community participation in the design and implementation of technology.
Who GenBridge is
GenBridge is a community capacity-building organization. Technology is the means we use to achieve that mission.
GenBridge strengthens community capacity through technology. We develop technology solutions that address community needs, provide training in existing and emerging technologies, and ensure communities have a meaningful voice in the design and implementation of the technologies that affect their lives.
We believe communities should not simply use technology; they should have the knowledge, tools, and power to shape it.
Three pillars
Build
Develop technology solutions that respond to real community needs.
Educate
Equip communities with the knowledge and skills to use existing and emerging technologies.
Empower
Give communities a meaningful role in shaping the technologies that affect them.
How we work
Capacity, not dependency
Every engagement leaves documentation and a trained person inside the organization.
Communities in the lead
We start with communities that already organize themselves, and we build, teach and advocate alongside them.
Sized to the organization
Frameworks built for institutions with legal departments do not transfer down. We write for the conditions that exist.
Claims we can support
We describe what we have done and do not inflate credentials.
Who we are
GenBridge is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit directed by a volunteer team. We draw on a network of practitioners engaged by project: technologists, emergency management professionals, trainers, community organizers and researchers. Full biographies are available on request to funders and partners.