City Roadmap - Digital Equity:
Approval of Digital Inclusion Grant
Awards
Item 3.3
San José City Council
April 19, 2022
• Jill Bourne, Director, Library Department
• Abby Shull, Broadband Manager, Office of Civic Innovation • Sunne Wright McPeak, President and CEO, California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF)
• Charlene Tatis, San José Digital Inclusion Director, CETF 1 Adopting Digital Literacy and Broadband
2 Access to devices
Affordability of services
Adoption through digital literacy training
GRANT AWARD RECOMMENDATIONS
3 Recommended Second-Round Grant Awards*
Alum Rock Union School District $262,500
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County $70,000
Closing the Divide $17,500
Evergreen Valley College $52,500
Goodwill of Silicon Valley $17,500
International Children Assistance Network, Inc. (ICAN) $21,000 International Rescue Committee, Inc. (IRC) $14,000
Prosperity Lab $17,500
Sacred Heart Community Service $61,250
San José Community Media Access Corp. (CreaTV) $3,500
Silicon Valley Education Foundation $35,000
Sourcewise $35,000
Step Up & Do Something $72,800
Tech Exchange (The Oakland Public Education Fund) $52,500 The Vietnamese Voluntary Foundation, Inc. (VIVO) $19,950 4 *Grants sum to $752,500.
Investors and Donations Boost Grants
5 Recommendations
$752,500 for Round 3 grant awards
$182,000 from Digital Inclusion Fund
$217,750 from unspent Round 1 & 2 funds
$352,750 from matching donations
$35,000 from donations to fund extra Round 2 adoptions Amend City agreement with CETF to allow:
One-time $20,000 payment for COVID-19 grant making support Up to $72,500 one-time payment for program assessment and transition management, if needed
Enables up to $92,500 paid from Digital Inclusion Fund In addition to CETF annual compensation ($190k/year)
6 Success Stories
+
Outcomes
7 8
Community Partners
9 Digital Adoption Demographics
10 Digital Adoption Distribution
11 Distribution by Connection Type
Next Steps
12 Round 2
Preliminary outcomes by June 30, 2022 – end of grant term Final outcomes by fall 2022
CBOs must achieve all Adoptions for release of Round 3 award Round 3
Commences on July 1, 2022
Future rounds paused pending program assessment
Digital Inclusion Fund – Program Assessment
Begin in spring 2022 – complete by spring 2023
Status reports
Grants and Assessment update to City Council in fall 2022/winter 2023 Recommend “next phase” model to City Council in spring 2023 13 THANK YOU!
AND
Digital Inclusion Advisory Board Members
Allen S. Hammond
Phil and Bobbie
Sanfilippo Chair and
Professor of Law, and
Director of the
Broadband Institute of
California, Santa Clara
University
Angel Rios
Deputy City Manager
Maureen Damrel
Senior Initiatives Officer,
Destination: Home
Glenn Vander Zee
Superintendent, East
Side Union High School
District
Christine
Fitzgerald
Community Advocate,
Silicon Valley
Independent Living
Center
Dolores Alvarado
CEO, Community Health
Partnership
Janine Pelosi
Chief Marketing Officer,
Zoom
Jill Bourne
Library Director, San
Jose Public Library
Karla Rodriguez-
Lomax
Public Affairs Director,
Kaiser Permanente
Lennies Gutierrez
Director of Government
Affairs, Comcast
Dr. Lisa Andrew
CEO, Silicon Valley
Education Foundation
Dr. Mary Ann
Dewan
County Superintendent
of Schools, Santa Clara
County Office of
Education
Nicole Taylor
President and CEO,
Silicon Valley
Community Foundation
Sam Liccardo
Mayor, City of San José
and Co-Chair
Sophie Horiuchi-
Forrester
San Jose Regional
Manager, AARP
Steve Preminger
Director Office of
Strategic and
Intergovernmental
Affairs, Santa Clara
County
Theodora (Tedi)
Vriheas
Director of External
Affairs, AT&T
City Roadmap - Digital Equity:
Approval of Digital Inclusion Grant
Awards
Item 3.3
San José City Council
April 19, 2022
• Jill Bourne, Director, Library Department
• Abby Shull, Broadband Manager, Office of Civic Innovation • Sunne Wright McPeak, President and CEO, California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF)
• Charlene Tatis, San José Digital Inclusion Director, CETF 14