LO*OP Center, Inc.

LO*OP Center Inc. is a nonprofit corporation based in Guerneville, California that provides educational products, services, consulting, research and technical resources relating to child and adult learning, history and future of computing in learning and education, intercultural communications and disaster readiness, response and recovery. The LO*OP Center was founded by Liza Loop in 1975.

LO*OP Center’s Mission is to empower people to meet the opportunities and challenges posed by technological change and by cultural diversity through education. We believe that human beings must engage in thoughtful development of their own societies, sciences, and selves. Through learning we can create a society without losers, a sustainable ecology and a population of people who respect and cherish diversity on Earth.

This 50 year old nonprofit corporation serves as an incubator, originally for Ms. Loop's own projects and extended to be a resource for like-minded educational innovators. Each project is independent in terms of its mission, population served, staffing, program details, and funding. LO*OP has benefited schools and school children in the US, young adults in the former Soviet Union, refugees in East Africa, immigrant factory workers in Silicon Valley California, Pacific Islanders living in the US who wanted to understand the political system in their new country and local tech companies, among others. Its programs have been variously financed by private industry contracts, individuals, government and school districts, and dedicated volunteers. What unites LO*OP's projects is a commitment to using the most appropriate technology to support people in their quest to learn to thrive in their social and natural environments. During this recent half century that has often come down to learning to adapt to computing and digital communications.