A brief description of the many community engagement, community service, and member programs at TAGNW. For more information regarding each program, and for how you can participate, please refer to the specific program website.
Community Engagement Programs
TAGNW Community Engagement Programs focus on expanding awareness and influence of technology and education topics in our community, including Career Launch, Community Hub, Community Groups, Community Partners, Jobs Board, Testing, and Whatcom STEM.
Career Launch
TAGNW Career Launch is the close collaboration of community, education, and industry partners to create a purposeful workforce development strategy for the mutual benefit of all stakeholders. Educational Institutions work to improve programs and student outcomes with the input of Community and Industry Partners. Industry Partners work to improve recruiting, hiring, and training for their organization. Community Partners work closely with Education and Industry Partners to improve effectiveness and efficiency of programs, better understand Industry Partner needs, adapt Industry Partner needs to limitations of academia, and complement Career Launch with value-added community programs. The end result is an ecosystem supporting workforce development efforts and creating highly skilled candidates entering high wage and high demand careers.
Community Hub
Join us at the TAGNW Community Hub to choose our new virtual community platform! All TAGNW events, programs, and services will centralize around the TAGNW Community Hub, including Community Groups, Happy Hours, and Lunch & Learns. Free. Open to everyone. All are welcome.
Community Groups
TAGNW Community Groups are for current and aspiring professionals, entrepreneurs, and innovators interested to participate in a peer group for shared learning, building relationships, and growing community. Current TAGNW Community Groups include Analytics, Connectivity, Creative, Cybersecurity, Digital Marketing, Engineering, IT, Nonprofits, Robotics, and Women in Tech. Each group meets on their own recurrence from weekly to quarterly (mostly monthly). Join us! Free. Open to everyone. All ages, expertise, and experience welcome.
Community Partners
At TAGNW, we collaborate with numerous fellow nonprofit organizations to serve our community! We provide TAGNW membership and partner benefits to to TAGNW Community Partners for just doing the things they do as a partner of TAGNW. Benefits include unlimited job board access as an employer for job, volunteer, and internship positions, complimentary tickets to TAGNW events, promotion of your own major events and announcements, and FREE technology consulting. Let’s do the things we do better together.
Jobs Board
The TAGNW Jobs Board is provided for job seekers and businesses in our community to find each other! ANY job seeker can freely post their resume, and TAGNW Business Members and Community Partners can review resumes and post available positions, including part time, full time, volunteer, and internship positions.
Testing
TAGNW Testing is a collaborative program to collect internet connectivity information in our community to understand the existing availability and value of Internet services in our community, raise awareness of available services, and promote improvement of availability for those with little or no access. Internet connectivity is crucial for all communities to participate in modern society. Everything from learning to banking to entertainment is conveniently — and sometimes exclusively — available via the Internet, yet many in our community and around the world have little or no access. You can help by running our internet connectivity tests and encouraging others to do the same. Thank you!
Contact
Please contact TAGNW, for any inquiries at director@tagnw.org. We would love to hear from you.