It is, but the challenge will be in two areas: 1) finding an alternate source of funding for 20% of the project cost (which can come from other government/foundation grants or from existing partners) and 2) winning some political support from state and local officials; they will be asked for input from NTIA with respect to which applications to award in each state.
Based on a brief look at your Website, TechMission works in four cities. A grant that expands your model to other cities might be successful. What did you have in mind? > From: and...@techmission.org > To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net > Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:18:19 -0400 > Subject: [DDN] BTOP and Nonprofits > > What do people know about the Broadband Technology Opportunities Grants? Is > it realistic for a nonprofit to get one of these grants? In looking through > the grant application, it looks like it's pitched towards really large > telecommunications companies that could cover several states: > > http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/meetings.html > > Andrew Sears > Executive Director > TechMission > www.techmission.org > and...@techmission.org (617) 359-0394 (cell) > (617) 282-9798 x101 (office) (617) 825-0313 (fax) > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _________________________________________________________________ Get free photo software from Windows Live http://www.windowslive.com/online/photos?ocid=PID23393::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_PH_software:082009 _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
