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My name is Andy Carvin, and I would like to express my interest in applying for XYZ.

For the last 12 years, I have dedicated my career to exploring the role of online communities in fostering positive social change. My earliest work in this area was as a grantmaker, serving as New Media Program Officer at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 1994 to 1999. I developed grant programs to encouraged public broadcasters and school districts to use online environments for educational and civic purposes. During this time I also developed WWWEDU, one of the first online communities dedicated to the role of the Web in education, and the website EdWeb: Exploring Technology & School Reform (www.edwebproject.org), which was named by NetGuide Magazine as one of the top 50 places to go online.

In 1999, I joined the Benton Foundation to develop an online initiative known as the Digital Divide Network, or DDN (www.digitaldivide.net). Launched by President Clinton at the December 1999 National Digital Divide Summit, DDN is an online community of 10,000 community technology activists from over 140 countries. The website employs a variety of social networking tools, including blogging, bulletin boards and RSS, to serve as a…