Connections for All:

Accessibility Grant

Accessibility Grant Details

Each grant award included the following:

• $20,000 grant used toward staff training, staff time dedicated to addressing access issues, and the purchase of assistive and accessible tools designed to help users overcome difficulties presented by standard tools and equipment.

• 30 hours of technical assistance from ATA or a local Assistive Technology Resource Center that included training on assistive technology tools and strategies, ensuring physical accessibility of the CTC, reviewing programs and services for accessibility issues, connecting staff to long-term resources in their community, identifying and using assistive technology tools to meet specific challenges, and learning how to use existing tools to better serve their community.

Accessibility Grant Selection Process

 

CTCs that attended a C4All Accessibility Institute were sent a Request for Proposals (RFP) in February 2007, inviting them to submit a proposal to CTCNet for an Accessibility Grant. Accessibility Grant recipients were selected using a competitive grant application process and notified of their award in early April.

Accessibility Grant Recipients

A total of 14 Accessibility Grants were awarded under the C4All program. Congratulations to the Accessibility Grant recipients:

• Project: Assistive Technology Education Center
  The Academy for Career Development (Rochester, NY)

• Project: Centro Latino's Increased Access
  Centro Latino for Literacy (Los Angeles, CA)

• Project: The Computer Clubhouse @MOS: Youth Empowerment for All
  Computer Clubhouse at the Museum of Science (Boston, MA)

• Project: Access to Digital Excellence: Widening the Bridge
  Council for World-Class Communities (Benton Harbor, MI)

• Project: Access Malden
  Cyber Café @ Malden Square (Malden, MA)

• Project: CommuniTech
  East Tennessee Technology Access Center (Knoxville, TN)

• Project: CyberSeniors Accessibility Project
  Emmaus Services for the Aging (a SeniorNet site) (Washington, DC)

• Project: DISKovery4All
  Little Tokyo Service Center CDC (Los Angeles, CA)

• Project: Make IT a Priority
  The Neighborhood Technology Resource Center (Chicago, IL)

• Project: Pillsbury United Communities Accessibility Improvement Project
  Pillsbury United Communities (Minneapolis, MN)

• Project: Self-Help Accessibility Project
  Self-Help for the Elderly (San Francisco, CA)

• Project: CTTC Accessibility Accelerator
  Skillpoint Alliance (Austin, TX)

• Project: C4All Houston
  Technology For All (Houston, TX)

• Project: North Quabbin Tech ACCESS
  Young Entrepreneurs Society (Orange, MA)