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KC Digital Drive one of four nonprofit recipients of Kansas Digital Equity and Inclusion Collaborative grant through Kansas Health Foundation

by Erin Melton | Jul 16, 2021 | Digital Infrastructure, Fiber to the Community, Home Internet Access, Digital Skills Training

On July 13, 2021, the Kansas Health Foundation (KHF) announced the four nonprofit recipients of its Kansas Digital Equity and Inclusion Collaborative grant. KC Digital Drive (KCDD) is one of the four recipients, all receiving a 3-year, $250,000 award. The “initiative...

Internet Utility Assistance Fund Q&A

by Aaron Deacon | Sep 30, 2020 | Home Internet Access

Learn how local non-profits and community-benefit organizations can help families in need get home Internet access With funding from Johnson County’s CARES Act allocation and the Kansas City Regional COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund, Mid-America Assistance...

KC Coalition for Digital Inclusion – March 2020

by Aaron Deacon | Feb 24, 2020 | Home Internet Access

Event Date: March 6, 2020 Time: 10:30 am-12:00 pm Location: Central Library, Helzberg Auditorium (5th Floor), 14 W 10th St, Kansas City, MO 64105 Admission: Free Based on the recent study about lagging home broadband adoption in KC, we are devoting the March...

The Center for Neighborhoods works to help neighborhood leaders grow their capacity

by Erin Melton | Jun 20, 2018 | Community Education and Awareness, Home Internet Access, Digital Skills Training, Code for KC

Jacob Wagner, Director of Urban Studies at UMKC and co-founder of The Center for Neighborhoods, spoke at Code for KC’s Learn Night on June 18, 2018. The Center for Neighborhoods is a UMKC resource that works to build the capacity of Kansas City neighborhoods. Jacob...

Hire KC Youth Digital Scholars and our Digital Inclusion Work Groups present their findings

by Katherine Hambrick | Sep 6, 2017 | Community Education and Awareness, Home Internet Access

Our meeting kicked off this month with two Hire KC Youth Digital Scholars, Noah Yener and Eleanor Nash. The report they’ve worked on for the last 8 weeks of their internship was to identify and evaluate Community Learning Centers, such as Brush Creek Community Center,...

Charlotte, NC follows in Kansas City’s digital inclusion footsteps

by Katherine Hambrick | Mar 10, 2017 | Computers in the Home, Community Education and Awareness, Home Internet Access, Digital Skills Training

One of Kansas City’s digital leader sisters is none other than Charlotte, North Carolina. Friday, Feb 3. the Kansas City Coalition for Digital Inclusion talked with Charlotte’s Digital Inclusion Project Manager at the Knight School of Communications, Bruce Clark....

KC Digital Drive’s Air Quality Sensors project was recently highlighted as part of MetroLab Network and Government Technology’s Innovation of the Month Series, which highlights impactful tech, data and innovation projects underway between cities and universities. The sensor project is focused on reducing air pollution in COVID-19 hot beds and improving overall air quality using citizen-accessible data and sensors.

Comeback KC Ventures Launches Fellowship Program

KC Digital Drive and the UMKC Innovation Center are seeking to recruit 20 entrepreneurial fellows as part of a project to fund and support innovative solutions for needs exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Civic Innovation Challenge awards $1 million to KC Digital Drive-partnered project to help underrepresented youth access extracurricular learning opportunities

On September 21st, the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the 17 recipients of their Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) Stage 2 Awards. One of the winners was the Connecting Underrepresented Youths with Employment Opportunities, led by the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. This project, which KC Digital Drive is partnering on, will build and test an integrated mobile application to help underrepresented youth find and access out-of-school-time learning opportunities.