Jeffrey Pine Hein

Work

Twenty-five years with Nevada County’s nonprofits, oldest to newest along the line. Entries I have not yet confirmed against the record are kept off the page until I have.

  1. 2000First job, FREED Center for Independent Living, age 15

    Assistive technology and equipment reuse: repairing and matching donated devices to the people who needed them.

  2. 2004donkeyco.com

    A web design shop, archived since April 2004.

  3. 2006jphein.com

    The consulting site, online since November 2006; on WordPress since 2013.

  4. c. 2009Technology lead, Community Beyond Violence (DVSAC until 2018)

    Fifteen years, through mid-2024, as the sole IT for the domestic-violence and sexual-assault agency: confidential client data, shelter networks, phones.

  5. c. 2011Connecting Point / 211 Nevada County

    Built and ran the Nevada-Sierra Connecting Point Public Authority's site (ns-pa.org, now connectingpoint.org) on WordPress, 2011–2016.

  6. 2011locomotioncircus.com

    "Fools with Gusto!": the site for Locomotion Circus, archived since July 2011.

  7. 2013ncproducersguide.com

    A shared calendar of every event and venue in Nevada County; the ancestor of the county calendar now on techempower.org.

  8. 2016BoXenLinux

    An Ubuntu LTSP distribution for nonprofits, with zero, thin and fat clients from one server.

  9. 2017The how-tos that became TechEMPOWER

    Plain-language posts on jphein.com (a free electric car for low-income Californians, unlocking a carrier phone, a $15 point of sale) while keeping Sierra Harvest, the California Survey Company and other Nevada County clients running.

  10. 2018–19Thin clients and cloud desktops for nonprofits

    LTSP builds and PXE menus, Windows cloud desktops for a nonprofit, half-price internet for nonprofits, OpenWrt on a WNDR4300; 4 Elements Earth Education joins the client list, lithium packs from laptop cells, Windows Server under KVM.

  11. 2023Founded TechEMPOWER, a 501(c)(3)

    Plain-language guides to programs that lower the cost of internet, phone, food and healthcare.

  12. 2025"Wait, I Qualify?!"

    A public-benefits show on Nevada County Media: five episodes in the first season, 24 more in production.

  13. 2026JPHein Consulting restarts; book.jphein.com live

    Broadband and digital-inclusion funding for small rural nonprofits, and running an organization on AI agents.

  14. 2026California Department of Technology Digital Inclusion Partner

    Northstar, digitalLIFT and Human-I-T partner; Nevada County Digital Navigator Initiative in design.