Google Volunteers Tech Support In The Tenderloin

On Tuesday, June 8th, 2010, students at the Tenderloin Tech Lab got a V.I.P. tutoring session with twenty of Google’s finest employees. For the second year in a row, the Tenderloin Tech Lab hosted GoogleServe, a week dedicated to introducing Google employees to the myriad opportunities for community service in the Bay Area. Twenty Google volunteers returned to the Tenderloin Tech Lab to provide a hands-on training to residents of Fr. Alfred Center, a year-long drug and alcohol rehabilitation program run by St. Anthony Foundation. Google volunteers worked one-on-one with residents to show them first hand how Google and other internet sites can bring them a little closer to finding their dream job. The Tenderloin Tech Lab, a partnership between St. Anthony Foundation and San Francisco Network Ministries, offers classes six days a week to help bridge the digital divide for homeless and low-income residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. With the help of Google volunteers, we showed first hand how a ‘Google Search’ may make just the difference in opening up a virtual world of possibility.