Government Grants Available for Technology

January 29, 1998 | Read Time: 1 minute

The Commerce Department is giving out $17-million this year through its Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program. The goal of the project is to improve education, health care, libraries, and other such services by using technology. The National Urban League in New York, for instance, last year received more than $650,000 to start technology-access centers in poor neighborhoods in Baltimore, Binghamton, N.Y., Boston, and Newark, N.J.

Since 1994, the grant program has given away more than $100-million to charities and state and local governments. Each federal grant must be matched with money from other sources. The deadline for applications is March 12.

For more information, contact the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, (202) 482-2048; e-mail tiiap@ntia.doc.gov; World Wide Web http://www.ntia.doc.gov.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.