Projects
CTN is the recipient of foundation/grant funds in collaboration other community-based organizations to improve access to technology resources in southeast Michigan. Grant/foundation funds currently awarded are:
Connect Your Community (CYC)
A collaborative effort with organizations in seven U. S. cities ranging in size from Detroit and Cleveland to Bradenton, FL and Zanesville, OH. CYC’s broad purposes are to:
Directly assist more than 26,000 disadvantaged households to cross the digital divide from disconnected to broadband-connected;
Demonstrate the efficacy of a community-based approach to drive broadband adoption in low-income, low-education, and disadvantaged populations in varied community settings; develop and share curriculum, tools, best practices, and collaborative relationships for ongoing work in these and other communities.
Detroit Connected Community Initiative
This project's purpose is to enable the Detroit Connected Community Initiative to provide high speed Internet access in two large low-income Detroit neighborhoods, utilizing Wi-Max and Wi-Fi technologies.