Title
Accept a Grant to Support the UNTechCLT Initiative
Action
Action:
A. Authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to accept a grant in the amount of $250,000 from the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Comcast for the city’s UNTechCLT Initiative, and
B. Adopt a budget ordinance appropriating $250,000 from the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Comcast to the Neighborhood Development Grants Fund.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Markell Storay, Innovation and Technology
Charlitta Hatch, Innovation and Technology
Explanation
§ UNTechCLT (“You In Tech Charlotte”) was created to support digital strategies and initiatives that promote a stronger, more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. This program combines the prior work of Access Charlotte, Learn2Earn, and Our Stories CLT App’s youth summer camps into one project.
§ The goal of UNTechCLT is to expand digital training and access programs that impact college and career readiness, help close the skills gap, advance economic mobility, and lay the foundation for generational wealth in underserved communities.
§ The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) /Comcast Digital Equity Challenge awarded the city of Charlotte a $250,000 grant to support UNTechCLT.
§ This grant will support areas of the city with the lowest digital adoption and community members most impacted by the digital divide.
§ The grant will be used to:
- expand a teen summer camp series to provide digital training, introduce career opportunities, teach responsible technology use, and create opportunities to address local community goals with technology;
- engage families to strengthen household digital skills and provide devices and internet access for continued skill building; and
- support workforce readiness among community members ages 16 to 25 by providing opportunities to obtain stipends and/or technology while gaining workforce experiences.
§ No matching funds are required.
Fiscal Note
Funding: Neighborhood Development Grants Fund
Attachments
Attachment(s)
Budget Ordinance