Funding Opportunities
Discover Community Infrastructure Funding Solutions
NYCmesh does Community Infrastructure Funding with member contributions, donations, grants, & volunteer labor, providing affordable & equitable internet access to New Yorkers
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…
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) allocates significant funding, including $42.5 billion through the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, to expand high-speed internet access across the United States. It aims to treat broadband as a fundamental utility, ensuring all Americans have affordable access to high-speed internet to close the digital divide and support economic development.
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 healthcare access.
Better Broadband is a key to Counter Housing Inflation
Leveraging open access fiber innerduct conduit to promote competition among ISPs can significantly help break up geographic monopolies, lower the cost of living, and enhance housing affordability. Here are detailed action points categorized into legislative actions and community stakeholder actions:
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 advantages, especially in communities awaiting sufficient funds for complete FTTH deployment. This strategy is relevant for communities like Orangeburg, South Carolina, which, like many rural areas, faces challenges in securing comprehensive high-speed internet access due to the reluctance of commercial service providers to invest in less profitable rural infrastructures.
Policy
What Is a Community-Owned Internet? And Why It Might Be the Future of Going Online
A plain-language guide to how community broadband networks work, why they’re cheaper and faster than Big ISPs, and what they mean for your neighborhood. The…
Lina Khan & open alternatives to propose
Help Lina Khan de-enshitify the internet & transform community governance with digital public infrastructure to create affordability.
Internet Access Peering Improves Housing Affordability
The policy implications of peering for housing providers—especially those involved in affordable housing—are increasingly significant as broadband becomes essential infrastructure. Here’s how peering impacts housing…
Value Alignment
The topic of value alignment has been coming up in recent discussions with staff, ranging from a guest, who was not paying any part of…
How will Michigan communities benefit from nearly $1.6 billion federal funding for Internet?
There has been a lot of talk about all of the federal dollars, nearly $1.6 billion that will be flowing into Michigan over the next few years to improve “Internet for all.” However, who is going to be receiving the bulk of that funding, and who will end up crediting the most. We posed this question to our AI assistant in Perplexity.
How to empower Community Internet
Discover long-term strategies for affordable internet access in communities, including municipal broadband networks and innovative deployment models. #InternetAffordability #CommunityBroadband