Skill list connecting team members to win Grant funding
We are connecting members to build successful teams as a part of our Community Management as a Service, CMaaS. Please use the following as a…
Category: Funding
Benefits of Community Internet for Telehealth ROI: Reduced Costs, Improved Access, Efficiency, and More
Investing in community internet infrastructure for telehealth can lead to significant ROI. Learn how broadband networks can save costs and improve hea…
Intermediate steps until fiber to the home can be funded for everyone
Planning fiber to the cabinet (FTTC) using a hub and spoke grid as an intermediate step towards achieving fiber to the home (FTTH) offers several adva…
How to challenge the BEAD program
Asking ChatGPT about ways to present challenges to how the BEAD program is being implemented for broadband funding.
CBPP commons based peer production
We asked: How does Commons-based peer production relate to the possibility of community owned Internet networks (COIN)? In particular, consider how Althea.net enables what Yochai…
Private equity and broadband internet expansion | The Broadband Community
Telecom companies are churning out fiber-backed bonds to private equity firms in an effort to finance new fiber-optic networks. Altogether, they’ve issued $4 billion in…
Creating a new kind of socially progressive corporation
In this joint interview with Freada Kapor Klein, Mitch Kapor talks about his goal to create a new kind of socially progressive corporation when he cof…
Co-Ops Can Look to Counties for BEAD Match Requirement
Darren Farnan, chief operating officer of rural electric co-op United Fiber, said counties can help co-ops with the matching piece required by the BEAD program…
Liquefying Infrastructure Demo: Justin Kilpatrick, Althea
If this topic about emerging technologies is of interest to you, please request an invitation to our private group, Infrastructure Finance, where we discuss how…
What can we learn from the Cooperative Utopia Fiber?
Too many legislators seem to think that we do not have choices other than the incumbent ISP. Because of this, we do have many concerns that the bulk o…