Grant Opportunity: "Connections for Tomorrow" Award

[Tony Streit]

Wanted to let you all know that YouthLearn is working with CTCNet on TA for
this initiative.  If your project is based in one of these 3 states, we
encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity.

Tony

Tony Streit
Director, The YouthLearn Initiative
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458
617.618.2778  Fax 617.332.4318
www.youthlearn.org
tstreit at edc.org
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From: "Trang Le" <tle at ctcnet.org>

<p>February 5, 2002

Grant Opportunity: "Connections for Tomorrow" (C4T) Capacity Building
Award.

Connections For Tomorrow (C4T) - a collaboration of organizational partners
funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - is announcing
a pilot award program for the provision of technical assistance services in
California, Illinois, and Massachusetts. The purpose of the Capacity
Building Assistance Program is to assist faith-based and community-based
organizations initiate, improve and/or expand their technology-based social
services programs.

In 2003, C4T anticipates making up to 165 awards in CA, IL, and MA - 55
awards in each state.  Award recipients will receive a wide range of
services including workshops/trainings, professional consulting, free or
discounted publications, free or discounted conferences, and many more.  In
addition, it is expected that a total of $1,500,000.00 in cash grants will
be distributed in California and Massachusetts during 2004 and 2005, and
$750,000.00 in Illinois during 2003.  Requests for proposals for the cash
grants will be made through a separate application process.

Eligible applicants include small and medium sized community- and
faith-based nonprofit organizations serving at-risk youth and/or homeless
populations within the states of CA, IL, and MA.  To be eligible, an
applicant must also seek to create, expand, and/or improve technology
related programs or seek general support that will benefit technology
related programs.

Applications for awards will be accepted on a rolling basis starting
February 1 of 2003 until February 28 of 2003. Potential applicants are
encouraged to submit your applications early. For more information about
the C4T Capacity Building Assistance Program, as well as the application,
please visit the C4T website at http://www2.ctcnet.org/c4t

For questions about the Capacity Building Awards in CA, please contact
either Ben Cain (bcain at ctcnet.org) or Anne Davis (adavis at ctcnet.org).

The following are the partner organizations working on the Connections For
Tomorrow Project (C4T):

Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) www.ataccess.org
Association of Christian Community Computer Centers (AC4) www.ac4.org
Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet) www.ctcnet.org
Illinois Community Technology Consortium

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