Project purpose:the atlanta technical college connecting minority communities pilot program (ATC-cmcpp) aims to: align programs, initiatives, and services to ensure student success and to meet…

Project purpose:the atlanta technical college connecting minority communities pilot program (ATC-cmcpp) aims to: align programs, initiatives, and services to ensure student success and to meet community and industry needs; improve institutional infrastructure for leadership and accountability across all functions of the college; and build a sustainable business model for resources and industry partnerships. Activities: the ATC-cmcpp project is composed of four activities. (1) the college will improve its broadband and wireless infrastructure. This will increase student, faculty, and staff broadband connection throughout campus. IT will also increase the IT department's staff capacity by engaging consultants to ensure that the project is implemented with the highest quality within the grant period. (2) the college will increase the number of laptops, tablets, and hotspots available to students through their lending library. (3) ATC will partner with a community-based nonprofit organization from the anchor community to offer senior citizens from target communities' digital skills development through the college's continuing education division. (4) an external evaluation will be conducted to determine the projects effectiveness and document best practices.outcomes: as a result of project implementation, the college aims to achieve four outcomes. First, the campus will have improved the college's broadband and IT infrastructure campus-wide. Second, the students' IT lending library will grow with the addition of new laptops and hotspots. Third, the college aims to serve senior citizens from the anchor communities with a tech-savvy training program and provide those seniors with laptops and hot spot devices. Finally, the external evaluation will determine the project's effectiveness and document best practices.beneficiaries: the beneficiaries of this project are the students, faculty, and staff of atlanta technical college, and the residents of the city of atlanta, clayton county, and fulton county, georgia. Students, faculty, and staff of the college will benefit from the increase in broadband infrastructure and the increased number of laptops, tablets, and hotspots available to them. Senior citizens in surrounding anchor communities will benefit by completing digital literacy training and by receiving tablet and hotspot access. Subrecipient activities (if applicable): subrecipients for this project are georgia state university and integrity transformations community development corporation. Georgia state university will conduct an external evaluation to determine the project's effectiveness and document best practices. Integrity transformations community development corporation is a community-based nonprofit organization from the anchor community that will offer senior citizens outreach recruitment, intake, eligibility, case management, follow-up, and wraparound services.