Verizon Foundation: Health, Literacy, Technology in NJ

Posted by on June 24, 2005

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

Verizon Foundation Offers Funding for Literacy, Technology, and Healthcare Programs Serving New Jersey

Deadline: June 30, 2005

The Verizon Foundation (<a href="http://foundation.verizon.com/">http://foundation.verizon.com/</a>) is currently inviting applications from nonprofit organizations in New Jersey for grants supporting literacy, technology, and health care initiatives.

Applicants must be nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations whose programs benefit underserved communities in Verizon-serving territory. For purposes of this program, underserved communities include low-income, ethnic, minority, limited-English-speaking, and disabled communities in New Jersey’s various rural, urban, and inner-city regions. Nonprofit organizations located outside of Verizon-serving territory but assisting under-served communities in Verizon-serving territory are also eligible for consideration.

Grants will be awarded in the following program areas:

Verizon Reads – Literacy Grant Awards: Proposals that focus on basic literacy programs that build on reading skills for children and adults; and proposals that focus on computer and Web-based literacy programs.

Verizon Connects – Technology Grant Awards: Proposals to improve the operational efficiency of a nonprofit through the use of computers and the Internet; proposals for technology applications that enable nonprofits to reach the community they serve more effectively; proposals that provide technology (job-related) training for individuals, including welfare-to-work and school-to-work training programs; and proposals that assist people with disabilities in acquiring computer skills through adaptive technology that prepares them to enter the workforce.

Verizon Health Care – Technology-In-Health Care Awards: Nonprofit use of telecommunications technology to improve the quality of medical care for consumers and healthcare professionals.

A total of $500,000 will be distributed through the program in 2005, with grant amounts ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 for a one-year period.

See the Verizon Foundation Web site for grant guidelines, a grant eligibility quiz, best-in-class models, and a technology needs-assessment section. Applications must be submitted online.

RFP Link: <a href="http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/2112/verizon">http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/2112/verizon</a>

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