Project Grant PB27493720

The Community College of Philadelphia was awarded a $5.9 million project grant from the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration under the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program (CFDA 11.028) to address digital equity gaps in underserved Philadelphia communities. The College will expand access to technology, broadband services, and workforce training through three main activities. It will provide refurbished desktops and laptops to students,...

The Department of Administration Services Bureau of Enterprise Systems & Technology (BEST) was awarded a $9,183,114.07 Project Grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the State Digital Equity Planning and Capacity Grant Program (CFDA 11.032). The purpose of this grant is to implement Connecticut's Digital Equity Plan, which includes the following key initiatives: Establishing two intensive Digital Navigator pilot programs, one in an urban...

This $36,984,641.81 Project Grant awarded on Jan 1, 2025 by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the State Digital Equity Planning and Capacity Grant Program (CFDA 11.032) will be used by the New York State Urban Development Corporation, doing business as Empire State Development, to implement New York's Digital Equity Plan. Key activities include distributing new and refurbished digital devices, upgrading and recycling devices, developing and improving...

The California Department of Technology (CDT), through a $70,226,453.82 Project Grant awarded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the State Digital Equity Planning and Capacity Grant Program (CFDA 11.032), will implement the California Digital Equity Plan. Key activities include convening digital equity stakeholders, refining digital equity data and maps, expanding digital navigation and digital inclusion programs, funding and expanding existing...

The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) has been awarded a $12,368,261.03 Digital Equity Planning grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the State Digital Equity Planning and Capacity Grant Program (CFDA 11.032). The purpose of this 5-year project grant, with an award date of January 1, 2025, is to implement Colorado's Digital Equity Plan. Key activities include: Establishing regional, cross-sector digital inclusion coalitions to...

The Prince George's County Memorial Library System in Largo, Maryland received a $106,000 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to expand digital equity and internet access. Through November 2021 to October 2022, the library system will administer a program allowing cardholders to check out laptops with internet hotspots for home use. A digital equity coordinator will oversee this and library staff will...

This $600,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a first-of-its-kind open-source measurement infrastructure platform. The University of Chicago will design, develop, and deploy this platform to enable new classes of research on digital infrastructure access across U.S. populations. Specifically, the platform aims to facilitate studies on the national digital divide challenge by...

Dominican University New York was awarded a $3,959,970 project grant from the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration under the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program (CFDA 11.028). The grant will support the DC Connection project to expand broadband and information technology capacity on campus and within campus buildings. Key activities to be funded include expanding wireless internet access on campus, providing subsidized broadband access and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA Program 10.310 provides $649,994 to the Regents of the University of Idaho to conduct research and extension programming aimed at bridging the digital divide and promoting economic growth in rural and underserved communities through broadband access and digital skills development. The project consists of two key components: 1) Research to understand the factors...

The State of Delaware - Department of Technology and Information (DTI) received a $4,816,482.10 Project Grant award from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the State Digital Equity Planning and Capacity Grant Program (CFDA 11.032). The grant, awarded on December 1, 2024, will be used to implement Delaware's Digital Equity Plan, which includes establishing a Digital Navigator program to help library patrons build digital skills, providing digital skills...