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From elementary literacy initiatives to college and career readiness programs, grants can enable school districts to transform the technology they use in the classroom, in the office, and even in the home. But in order to get the benefit of all this funding, you have to know where to look and how to effectively pursue the right opportunities for your community. 

Join Grants Office and special guests from NetApp for a discussion of the most technology-friendly grant opportunities in K-12 and tips for bringing the right people together and developing a competitive proposal. If you’ve been considering ramping up your district’s grantseeking, especially for technology, this timely event will leave you with the tools and strategies to help you get started right away! 

Whether you’ve raised millions of dollars for campus technology projects or are completely new to grantseeking at this level, it’s not hard to imagine that most of the projects you’re looking to fund are going to include a technology component. Technology has become an essential factor of even traditionally analog initiatives, like faculty development programs, community-based workforce projects, and laboratory upgrades, for example.

All this technology in all its many forms can leave grantseekers struggling to develop (or follow) campus-wide policies that ensure that new grant-funded equipment works with the existing infrastructure, without stifling the community’s motivation to pursue these lucrative advancement opportunities. 

Join Grants Office CEO Michael Paddock and special guests from NetApp as we discuss the grant programs that can support campus technology and strategies for managing fast-paced technology acquisition while encouraging the community to be more creative and actually accelerate their grantseeking. If you are involved with grants in any way for your institution, you won’t want to miss this event!

WATCH THE REPLAY HERE: Grants that can fund technology in its many forms can also fund measures to secure that technology and the data it contains, but for whatever reason, IT security is often left out of grant budgets and as a result left either to the grant recipient to pay or not integrated at all – either of which can leave the organization vulnerable to security breaches and the liability that goes along with them!

Join Grants Office and special guests from Century Link as we review strategies for building security into your organization’s grant proposals and a look at some of the most technology-friendly grant programs in government and education. We’ll also highlight VMware’s new Disaster Recovery as a Service and other solutions that can help you keep your data safe and available. 

WATCH THE REPLAY HERE: In campuses across the country, data has become a part of everyday life for students, faculty, administrators, and researchers. And how data is stored, accessed, and presented can make a world of difference in how effectively it is used, and ultimately, on the benefit it accrues to the work the campus community is doing. 

Join Grants Office and special guests from VMware and CDW for an overview of grants that can fund campus technology and a look at the solutions that can help campuses get the most out of their data, no matter where or when it is needed. 

Innovative approaches to advancing student achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math are being funded at unprecedented levels, and not all the best funding is STEM-specific or even administered by the Department of Education! 

Join Grants Office and special guests from NetApp for a survey of the best STEM funders, including federal and state agencies and even private foundations, and a discussion of how technology can be funded as a part of these projects. 

Now, more than ever, funders are taking the value proposition seriously when it comes to supporting healthcare projects. In the past, funders tended to focus exclusively on improved population health indicators and effective delivery mechanisms. The proliferation of electronic health records, health information exchange, health insurance marketplaces and rising healthcare costs has created an environment where efficiency and value have become primary considerations when it comes to securing grant funding for projects in the health sector. This new normal in healthcare is characterized by a vast amount of data that needs to be stored, shared and accessed across a wide array of impacted stakeholders, including researchers, payers, public health officials and providers. Data is essential whether you are documenting a telemedicine encounter in a remote area, storing lecture content for health professional students, or using analytics to identify patient populations that need comprehensive chronic disease management or are at-risk for hospital readmissions.

Registrants will receive a funding report entitled "Grant Funding for Data Center Technology in the Health Sector," which will contain valuable information on all the funding options discussed during the presentation. Participants will also learn about specific data center technologies that can help them with their transformative projects. 

Join Grants Office and special guests from NetApp for a look at the grants that can fund data center technology in the health sector, on the basis of how it will be used to achieve the 3-Part Aim of improved health status, better health care delivery and reduced costs.

Technology already serves a pervasive role in university research and administration, but the vast inventory of equipment that supports it is often cobbled together and itself disconnected, with standalone systems supporting the registrar, for example, and dedicated research networks supporting sponsored programs. IT directors talk about the need for a unified solution, but financial and bureaucratic obstacles can stop that conversation before it even begins. 

Join Grants Office CEO Michael Paddock and special guests from NetApp as we discuss the grant programs that can support campus-wide virtualization technology (think of it as a private cloud), for applications that include research, instruction, administration, security, and student connectivity. We will also review some best practices for applying cutting edge networking and storage technology to help ensure your infrastructure is able to satisfy the requirements of your campus community today and well into the future. 

Video technologies, including body-worn, fixed-site and in-car video are transforming the business of policing and prosecution. At the same time, these technologies are also requiring public safety officials to develop new policies and systems to keep the huge amounts of data they are generating secure and accessible when it is needed. Fortunately, a number of grant programs can help justice agencies fund digital evidence management systems, putting information squarely on the side of the good guys. 

Join Grants Office CEO and special guests from NetApp for a look at the grants that can fund digital evidence management and some of the latest technologies that are making it more useful than ever. 

Everyone who registers will also receive a PDF copy of the whitepaper, Grants for Managing Digital Evidence: A Handbook for Law Enforcement, Prosecutors, and Courts, full of information on funding opportunities and tips for making your digital evidence project compelling to funders. 

Access to data where and when it is needed is more than just an IT concern. Increasingly, it is an operational necessity, with implications for response times, situational intelligence, safety of personnel, and overall mission execution. Unfortunately, the technologies that can provide these benefits are outside the normal budget parameters of many public safety and emergency management agencies. 

The good news is that federal and state grant funds can help make up the difference between what you need and what you can afford, and CDW and VMware have teamed up with Grants Office to help you take advantage of these funding opportunities. 

Join Grants Office CEO Michael Paddock and special guests from VMware and CDW as we review the grant-fundable applications of virtualization in a public safety context. We’ll review funding from the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and state sources as well.

Increasingly, campus officials are seeking to employ video-based security initiatives to improve student safety and reduce crime across their campuses, and led by the Department of Justice’s Grants to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking on Campus Program, a number of grantmakers are supporting their efforts. 

Join Grants Office CEO Michael Paddock and special guests from NetApp for a look at how video is making campuses safer and what funding sources universities and colleges can access to help them pay for it. We will also cover some strategies for articulating a case for campus security enhancements based on the benefits that they will provide to the institution, it students and faculty, and the wider community.