NDIA Blog
Calling All Coalitions: This Is Your Chance to Contribute to State Digital Equity Plans
Local Digital Inclusion Coalitions Should Start Acting NowThis fall, states, territories, and the District of Columbia (DC) will receive Digital Equity Act (DEA) Planning Grant awards – and, with approximately a year to develop their state digital equity plan, they’ll...
NDIA Awards 18 National Digital Navigator Corps Grants in Rural & Tribal Areas
The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) announced today 18 grant recipient organizations, who will together launch the National Digital Navigator Corps. The grants are part of $10 million of support from Google.org, which will go toward hiring community-based...
New York Digital Inclusion Fund Announces Five Innovation Grant Awards
National Digital Inclusion Alliance is pleased to announce the final cohort of Innovation grantees from the New York Digital Inclusion Fund, in partnership with Schmidt Futures. The Fund supports innovative partnership models that address digital inclusion barriers...
Planning to Build a New Digital Skills Curriculum? Read This First
Supporting digital skills building is a complicated aspect of digital inclusion work. Each community and each individual requires a different level of support, with different needs and desires when it comes to digital skills building. Luckily, there is no need to...
Miss the Webinar? Here’s What You Need to Know about ACP Outreach Grants
NDIA Explains the New FCC Affordable Connectivity Outreach Grant Program and Your Home, Your Internet PilotWhile over 12 million people are enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, the missing component has been funding for locally driven outreach and...
NDIA Names a Record 32 Digital Inclusion Trailblazer Local Governments & Regions
National Digital Inclusion Alliance is thrilled to honor the largest group yet of Digital Inclusion Trailblazers!City of Austin, TX City of Baltimore, MD Baltimore County, MD City of Bloomington, IN City of Boston, MA City of Chattanooga & Hamilton County, TN City...
Funding for ACP Outreach Is Almost Here
FCC Establishes Outreach Grants and 'Your Home Your Internet' to Raise Awareness for ACP The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently voted unanimously to establish two programs: The Affordable Connectivity Outreach Grant Program and the Your Home Your...
NDIA Shares Reply Comments to FCC to Define ‘Digital Discrimination’
NDIA was thrilled to see efforts against "digital discrimination" land in the Infrastructure Act last fall. Since then, the Federal Communications Commission has been working on the process of defining "digital discrimination.” The latest step in the process was...
NDIA’s First Impact Report Is Here!
A Letter from NDIA Executive Director Angela Siefer Dear Friends, I am often told to celebrate the $2.75 billion federal investment in digital equity. After all, this is digital equity’s moment. But…we also have so much work ahead of us making sure this investment...
NDIA Opens Applications for 2022 Digital Inclusion Trailblazer Communities
The 2022 Digital Inclusion Trailblazers application window opened June 1 and will remain open until June 30. NDIA welcomes applications from towns, cities, and county-level governments. The Digital Inclusion Trailblazers Program recognizes local governments that are...