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Digital Inclusion Fund | Kansas City Digital Drive Digital Inclusion Fund | Kansas City Digital Drive Charitable fund led by KC Digital Drive and administered at the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation A MORE CONNECTED COMMUNITY Driving toward digital equity in the KC region Based on findings from a recent funding landscape analysis white paper , KC Digital Drive is leading the fund’s relaunch effort in 2024 to support 501(c)(3) public charities, educational or governmental entities that focus on digital inclusion access, affordability and adoption to increase participation in digital society for Kansas City’s most underserved and/or disconnected residents.
Initial funding is from the Health Forward Foundation, Kauffman Foundation, Kansas Health Foundation and Google Fiber.
The Fund is a charitable fund led by KC Digital Drive and administered at the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation with an Advisory Council that includes Dred Scott, President, Civic Council of Greater Kansas City; CiCi Rojas, President, Tico Productions; Adriana Pecina, Impact Strategist, Health Forward Foundation; Rachel Merlo, Head of Government and Community Affairs (Central + OC, CA), GFiber; and Aaron Deacon, Managing Director, KC Digital Drive.
In 2024, the Fund will grant up to $250,000 across 3 funding cycles in these areas: Devices – applications open June 3 I. T. Support – applications open August 1 New Courses – applications open October 1 Each cycle has its own request for applications, application requirements and evaluation criteria.
KC Digital Drive will provide applicant support through informational events, office hours and 1:1 assistance leading up to each grant cycle; and will provide tech support, and evaluation and reporting assistance to all grantees. To learn more and apply online, visit kcdif. org .
Devices Grants Application Support: Office Hours Thursdays 9-11am at Park39 June 4 to July 11; Contact Leah Henriksen at lhenriksen at kcdigitaldrive dot org for more information.
Originally established in 2013 to address digital literacy and technology access, the Fund provided just under $1 million to 33 grantees over 5 cycles with funding from Google Fiber (or GFiber), the Sprint Foundation, The Illig Family Foundation, Polsinelli, Global Prairie and JE Dunn.
The June meeting of the KC Coalition for Digital Inclusion brought together four voices from the region’s affordable housing and digital equity sectors for a rich conversation on how housing stability and internet access shape each other.
Health Forward Foundation’s Adriana Pecina and John Tramel, LISC Greater Kansas City Executive Director Geoff Jolly, Hispanic Economic Development Corporation (HEDC) Executive Director Pedro Zamora, and Phoenix Family Program Manager Jessica Welch joined KC Digital Drive Digital Inclusion Program Manager Leslie Scott to explore what it means to live at the intersection of two of Kansas City’s most persistent inequities.
In recognition of May as “Research Month”, Children’s Mercy Research Institute’s division of Health Services and Outcomes Research organized several “Lunch and Learn” sessions to highlight important topics for their researchers. The final session focused on the challenge of representative studies for improving both for quality and reach.
KC Digital Drive worked with the CMRI team to provide further context for the session’s presentation, but also to help them create a version of Digital Drive’s Digital Divide Simulation (DDS) so that the researchers could see first-hand the circumstances which touch many of their patients and even more families beyond. Not everyone building a business has a laptop. For Empire Dreams entrepreneurs, that gap was a wall.
A connection through KC Digital Drive brought them to KC Public Library’s Chromebook lending program. Three weeks later, program participants weren’t pitching on phones anymore. They were building decks, creating marketing plans, and feeling official.
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Kansas City Digital Inclusion Fund is sponsored by KC Digital Drive (administered at the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation). This fund supports 501(c)(3) public charities, educational or governmental entities focused on digital inclusion access, affordability, and adoption to increase participation in digital society for Kansas City's underserved and/or disconnected residents.
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