This report, a project of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) and the Leadership Conference Education Fund (LCEF), examines the capacity and use of new technologies among national civil rights organizations as well as their understanding and participation in communications and Internet public policy issues. The primary findings are: 1) while national civil and human rights groups struggle to join the digital age, they still remain far behind; and 2) more importantly, national civil and human rights organizations have not been among the organizations at the policy making table, influencing public policies that set the fundamental rules of engagement for the digital age.