[MACEP] Connectivity Grant Opportunity for Qualifying Schools

[Don Wolff]

MACEPers,

In partnership with Oregon Department of Education the Education  
Enterprise Steering Committee (EESC) is making available $250,000.00  
in grant monies to support needy schools in LastMile connectivity  
efforts. The money will be available in the form of ten (10)  
$25,000.00 grants for schools that currently do not have at least  
10MBps of bandwidth at any point in their path to the Internet.

The grant supports schools, districts and ESDs working alone, or in  
partnership, to provide last mile connections to increase the  
bandwidth to the building at a rate of 10MBps or higher. These funds  
may only be used to create Layer One and Layer Two connections to  
large bandwidth providers and may not be used to off-set on-going or  
monthly costs associated with bandwidth or data transport. Funds will  
be made available immediately to winning grant applications and must  
be spent before June 30, 2009.

The deadline to submit grant applications is October 14, 2008.  
Complete details for the grant history and process can be found at http://www.oregoneesc.org/content/lastmile-connectivity-grants-2008-announcement 
.

If you have any questions surrounding this grant please contact Don  
Wolff, Technology Director for the EESC: 541.601.8381 or don at oregoneesc.org 
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Regards,

-Don

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
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Don Wolff
EESC Technology Director
Web Site: www.oregoneesc.org
Email: don at oregoneesc.org
541.776.6762 (w)
541.601.8381 (m)

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