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NonProfit Enterprise to Serve Business CustomersTechnology For All develops TFA-JobTech, a document conversion business, to serve customers and fulfill its charitable mission

HOUSTON, June 20, 2006 – Today Technology For All (TFA) announced the development of TFA-JobTech, a social enterprise focused on providing high value business oriented document conversion, knowledge management and related services with a commitment to customer satisfaction. As a business within the nonprofit, TFA-JobTech is focused on achieving its business goals while at the same time serving TFA’s charitable mission to empower low income and under-served communities through the tools of technology.

Capitalized by an initial grant from the United States Department of Commerce and grants from several of Houston’s major foundations, this “double bottom line” business within the nonprofit was developed to employ persons in low-income neighborhoods served by Technology For All and its nonprofit community partners. Nonprofit community partners that have participated in the development of TFA-JobTech include The Technology Opportunity Institute, East Side University Village Community Learning Center, New Nuevo Heights, All Saints Catholic Third Age Learning Center. Providing consulting services in the development of TFA-JobTech have been Access Sciences Corporation, Decision Information Services, Dimension4, EnVision Communication Concepts, and ERGOS Technologies.

The document conversion and knowledge management business is a multi-billion dollar business across the U.S and is estimated to be growing by 15-20% per year. TFA-JobTech intends to capture some of that growth opportunity by achieving its business goals to: 1) provide services at a competitive market rate; 2) provision each job to meet the specific requirements identified by the customer; 3) provide high value services with a quality of service that ranks at the top of its competition; and 4) offer related services by building strategic alliance with companies that compliment TFA-JobTech’s core competencies and create customer value.

Initial services provided by TFA-JobTech include archival quality document conversion, indexing, optical character recognition (OCR) services, other knowledge management and document conversion services per specified customer requirements. TFA-JobTech prepares the paper content of its customers for export into data bases, electronic publishing and the Web. Services are provided to fine-tune the document conversion strategy of TFA-JobTech’s customers to eliminate document redundancy, identify metadata, and prepare legacy and future documents for present and future needs. TFA-JobTech converts PDF, all kinds of document formats and paper into XML, SGML, HTML and other structured formats for export into over 25 document and knowledge management systems.  To expand its service offerings TFA-JobTech is building strategic alliances with other companies and organizations that will compliments its core competencies and create customer value.

For more information about TFA-JobTech go to www.jobtech.org or contact Jim Forrest, Business Development Officer at 713.454.6413 (Jim.Forrest@techforall.org ).

TFA-JobTech is a social enterprise of Technology For All (TFA). TFA  is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on empowering low-income and under-resourced communities using the tools of technology. In the Houston area, Technology For All-Houston has helped create and develop over 210 community technology centers (CTCs) in collaboration with community-based organizations across the region. Nationally TFA provides supportive services to over 360 individual CTCs in 56 U.S. cities. TFA’s local and national offices are located in Houston’s East End at 2220 Broadway, Houston, Texas 77012; phone: 713-454-6400.

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