Writing a winning grant proposal can be challenging, even for veteran grant seekers. You believe in your project and understand the needs of your organization, your goal is to now make a potential funder believe in your project too. A successful application begins and ends with confidence. With over 20 years in the grant industry, we know experience breeds confidence. We also know it’s wise to collaborate with the industry’s best to ensure success, so we’ve invited three outside grant experts, all with a varying perspective of the grant writing process, to share their own advice and offer several tips on how to make your application stand out from the pack.

No matter where you are in the grant application process, you won’t want to miss this informative discussion. Register today.

First responders must be agile and quick, as does the technology that supports them. Learn how to stay adaptive in your public safety response with Grants Office, Ingram Micro Cloud, and additional guest speakers. Discover ways to fund these initiatives through grant programs by the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, state grantmakers, and more.

Sign up to gain expert insights on:
- The latest public safety technology that can keep first responders on top of their game
- Examples of grant programs that you can apply for
- How to effectively justify the inclusion of equipment in a grant proposal

If you’re interested in leveraging grant funds to purchase public safety technology solutions, you won’t want to miss this informative event!

Over the next three years an estimated $21 trillion USD in grant funding will available to grant seeking organisations. Further, over half of that amount will be expended across 3 regions and in 15 key countries. These dollars will be available to public and private sector organisations, providing ample opportunities to advance their missions, dramatically increase their capacity, and positively impact the communities they serve.

Grants Office LLC, the global leader in grants intelligence, has recently completed a survey of the global grant funding outlook for 2023-2025.

This first of its kind analysis provides business, government, and institutional leaders with the knowledge they need to solve problems, collaborate among stakeholders, and realize their goals through accessing expert grants intelligence and forecasting information.

Join us to learn what this grant funding looks like for Asia Pacific, specifically. By attending this webinar, you’ll learn:

• What countries hold the greatest opportunity for grantseekers?
• What is the source of these grant dollars in each country?
• What types of organizations are receiving and spending these grant dollars?
• What types of projects are prioritized for grant funding?

Whether you are an executive at a technology company that sells into the public and private sector, or a decision maker at an organization looking to leverage grant funding, you won’t want to miss this informative event!

Over the next three years an estimated $21 trillion USD in grant funding will available to grant seeking organisations. Further, over half of that amount will be expended across 3 regions and in 15 key countries. These dollars will be available to public and private sector organisations, providing ample opportunities to advance their missions, dramatically increase their capacity, and positively impact the communities they serve.

Grants Office LLC, the global leader in grants intelligence, has recently completed a survey of the global grant funding outlook for 2023-2025.

This first of its kind analysis provides business, government, and institutional leaders with the knowledge they need to solve problems, collaborate among stakeholders, and realize their goals through accessing expert grants intelligence and forecasting information.

Join us to learn what this grant funding looks like for Europe, specifically. By attending this webinar, you’ll learn:

• What countries hold the greatest opportunity for grantseekers?
• What is the source of these grant dollars in each country?
• What types of organizations are receiving and spending these grant dollars?
• What types of projects are prioritized for grant funding?

Whether you are an executive at a technology company that sells into the public and private sector, or a decision maker at an organization looking to leverage grant funding, you won’t want to miss this informative event!

Over the next three years an estimated $21 trillion USD in grant funding will available to grant seeking organisations. Further, over half of that amount will be expended across 3 regions and in 15 key countries. These dollars will be available to public and private sector organisations, providing ample opportunities to advance their missions, dramatically increase their capacity, and positively impact the communities they serve.

Grants Office LLC, the global leader in grants intelligence, has recently completed a survey of the global grant funding outlook for 2023-2025.

This first of its kind analysis provides business, government, and institutional leaders with the knowledge they need to solve problems, collaborate among stakeholders, and realize their goals through accessing expert grants intelligence and forecasting information.

Join us to learn what this grant funding looks like for the Americas, specifically. By attending this webinar, you’ll learn:

• What countries hold the greatest opportunity for grantseekers?
• What is the source of these grant dollars in each country?
• What types of organizations are receiving and spending these grant dollars?
• What types of projects are prioritized for grant funding?

Whether you are an executive at a technology company that sells into the public and private sector, or a decision maker at an organization looking to leverage grant funding, you won’t want to miss this informative event!

As the COVID-19 Pandemic wanes and the world returns to in-person settings, public sector organizations struggle to revert to an enterprise orientation that maintains the capability to work-from-anywhere while the demand for digital networks, devices, and applications continues to grow exponentially. Whether you are a state agency, local government, K-12 school district, or institution of higher education, you must secure an ever-expanding network without the needed funding to obtain the essential equipment, software, and personnel necessary to achieve and maintain an adequate security posture.

The good news is that grants are available to help you take the next step in the evolution of cybersecurity architecture. The Federal Government is making historic levels of investment in cybersecurity, including $1 Billion in grants from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) that will provide states and localities with significant funding over the next several years. This new money can be leveraged alongside remaining stimulus funds and other annual grant programs that address cybersecurity.

Join Grants Office and special guests from Fortinet to learn about the grants landscape for cybersecurity projects. Find the funding you need while discovering best practices and tips to justify cybersecurity purchases within grant applications.

Don’t let funding stop you from implementing a security fabric that seamlessly converges with your network to provide system-wide visibility and control while simplifying your ability to scale your operational footprint as demand dictates. If you are trying to fund any type of cybersecurity initiative, you will not want to miss this event.

The Government of Canada has set a target that all Canadians must have access to high-speed Internet by 2030, regardless of where they live. To reach this target, several approaches have been put in place, and among them, funding. The programs support a wide range of projects from transporting network capacity to cellular expansion projects. During this webinar, we will discuss what grants are available both at the federal and provincial levels.

Join Grants Office on November 21 at 1 p.m. as we go over the opportunities. We will discuss program details, upcoming deadlines, previously awarded projects, and useful tips for securing and funding for your organization.

The $1 billion State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program is the first federal cybersecurity-focused program that provides funds for governments to invest in their cybersecurity infrastructure. This historic funding is an incredible opportunity for states, local governments, and territories to address cybersecurity risks and threats that can disrupt the critical services they provide their communities. States will receive funding from the federal government and must pass at least 80% of their allocation down to local governments to support their cybersecurity projects. In order to optimize your government’s chance of accessing these funds, it’s crucial to begin thinking now about your cybersecurity needs and to know the types of information you’ll need to gather as these funds become available.

Join Grants Office, with special guests Carahsoft, Okta, and Amazon Web Services, as we discuss this exciting new funding opportunity. We’ll provide an overview of the program, discuss the way funds will flow from states to local governments, and explain what next steps you can take to prepare for this program. If your government is looking to find funds for its next cybersecurity project, you won’t want to miss this event!

As part of the cybersecurity awareness month, we are hosting a series of Grantscasts to discuss cybersecurity grant opportunities across the globe. We will examine current trends and the impact of COVID-19 on cybercrime and resulting cyber funding in four corners of the globe: U.S., Canada, Australia, and Europe.

Join this session to gain further understanding of the government funding opportunities available for infrastructure development, law enforcement, and emergency funding in the U.S. Increase your insight into the types of programs available and the new initiatives the U.S. government is implementing in 2022-23.

If you have been wondering about the availability of cybersecurity funding, you won’t want to miss this session.

Is your Public Sector agency struggling to go green? The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) includes $550 billion in new spending, with a substantial portion for green infrastructure and sustainability.

Organizations that get a jump on identifying and planning for IIJA sustainability monies are better positioned to get funding. And that's where SHI and Grants Office come in.

Participate in this webcast to learn how to use IIJA funding to get the technology you need to improve your organization’s environmental sustainability. We will cover the best practices for putting together your application proposals to support your green infrastructure projects.

If you are looking for help connecting the dots between new sustainability funding and technology solutions, you won’t want to miss this event!

Faced with allocation deadlines, public sector institutions and not-for-profit healthcare organizations are seeking ways to responsibly invest stimulus dollars to better serve communities. While some deadlines extend into 2024, other stimulus funds must be spent over the next few months. However, many agencies are struggling to decide on the right technology investments, while trying to understand all the spending rules and the various deadlines based on the funding source.

To help guide you through this process, the Grants Office has partnered with Logitech to share best practice use cases on maximizing stimulus funds and establishing a grant funding strategy for K-12, higher education, healthcare, and government IT projects.

This timely and informative session will provide you with the latest deadline information and rules so you can spend your stimulus funding with confidence. Most importantly, discover how you can take advantage of the Logitech Grants Support Program to access grant experts and develop a grant-seeking plan for your immediate and long-term needs.

The federal government enacted the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in November 2021, creating the first federal grant program exclusively aimed at improving the nation’s cybersecurity. That program, the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program, will provide $200 million across the country in federal fiscal year 2022 for state, local, and tribal cybersecurity projects. Institutions of public education and public health may also be eligible in partnership with their state or local government.

This webcast will offer advice to governments interested in applying to the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. We will cover the basics of this new program, provide the latest updates, and explain how you can best prepare to apply. Additionally, we will go over how K-12 school districts and public colleges and universities can play a role in these cybersecurity projects.

Join Grants Office and special guests from Rubrik to help you use funding from the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program to get the technology you need to secure your government’s data. If you are looking for help connecting the dots between new grant funding and cybersecurity solutions, you won’t want to miss this event!

Private and corporate foundations award millions of dollars in grants each year in the United States. These programs support projects across a variety of needs for school districts, institutes of higher education, and government agencies. Organizations have an opportunity to use these funds to innovate and improve their programming.

Join Grants Office, HP, and AMD as we review the funding landscape and grant maker priorities for foundation funding. We’ll also discuss ways to justify technology needs within proposed projects and grant-seeking best practices when pursuing funding from foundation grant makers. If you’re looking for a primer (or a refresher) on foundation grant-seeking, you won’t want to miss this event!

The current funding landscape for state and local governments covers a variety of areas: COVID responses, transportation, security and safety, resilience, and community development, to name just a few. Along with the standard federal funding opportunities we’ve come to expect, the new $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act bill will create an abundance of new grant programs for governments at every level to pursue.

With so many grant opportunities out there, it can be difficult to know where to begin. You might wonder which funding programs will best meet your agency’s technology needs? Which ones make the most sense to apply to? And how can you best position your organization to compete for this funding?

For answers to these questions and more, join Grants Office, LLC as we discuss the basics of grant seeking for state and local governments. We’ll discuss the different funding priorities, sample programs for each priority area, and best practices for pursuing these grants. If you’re looking for a primer (or a refresher) on the state and local government funding landscape, you won’t want to miss this event! Sponsored by HP, AMD, and Microsoft.

With the announcement of the new federal budget earlier this month, it’s time to dive into details on the new grants, as well as some old favorites, that are available to your organization in 2022. Learn about these funding opportunities whether you’re in the public or private sector. There are plenty of programs worth learning about, so don’t miss out!

Join Stephanie Cesar and Joseph Phelan, Grants Development Consultant from Grants Office, as we offer insight into where Canada’s government has placed funding priorities in 2022. Along the way, we’ll provide program details, projected deadlines, and useful tips for securing these funds for your organization in the coming months.

Each year the federal government distributes approximately $500 billion in grant funding through 26 grant-making agencies. Further, many of these grant funds can be leveraged by public sector organizations to purchase technologies that will enable their mission-driven efforts. Interested in learning more about what to expect for these technology-friendly monies on the horizon?

Join Grants Office, HP, AMD, and Microsoft as we review the federal funding landscape and current funding trends in 2022. Discover the top federal agencies offering grants for K-12, higher education, and government entities, and what types of projects these funders will prioritize for support. We’ll even provide tips for sorting through the grant funding landscape to determine the best-fit grant for your needs.

As a special thank you, after the event, you’ll receive our exclusive whitepaper covering this year’s funding trends and how you can make the most of available grant opportunities to support your next technology-rich project.

With the government set to announce the federal budget in April, now is the time to start preparing for the new batch of grant opportunities that are soon-to-be released. Join Stephanie and Joseph, Grants Development Consultants from Canada, as they share tips and advice for grantseeking in 2022 and beyond. During this session, they will outline the concrete action steps you can take today to put your best foot forward on future funding.

This informative session is applicable to all grant seekers, regardless of grant experience, organization type, or project readiness. Join us to make sure you are ‘grant ready’ in time for the 2022 budget release. 

Interested in knowing what grants are available for public safety in Canada? Then this webinar is for you! Public safety is fundamental because it allows society to advance in other areas. During this webinar, we will review a few programs that can help fund your public safety projects. These programs may be available for public or private sector.

Join Grants Office as we explore various grant programs that will fund your public safety project. In addition, we will share with you 10 tips for writing successful grant proposals.

Emergencies don’t stop, and public safety remains a priority. Learn how you can stay agile in your police, fire, and EMS response with Samsung solutions and discover ways to fund these initiatives through grant funding from the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, state grantmakers, and others. Sign up to gain expert insights on:

1. The latest public safety mobile technology that can keep first responders safe and better equipped

2. Examples of grant programs that you can apply for

3. How to effectively articulate your grant application

As a sense of normalcy starts to return to many areas of the country, many public sector agencies are still struggling to rebound. Financial constraints stemming from the pandemic continue to put many important government and education services in peril. The true impact is not measured by lost revenue and other financial indicators, but by the residents and students that continue to suffer and ultimately bear the burden of the pandemic.

Fortunately, funding has started to flow from the American Rescue Plan. While these dollars can be used for COVID response efforts, Congress specifically built-in provisions with an eye towards the future. Much of the funding is aimed at helping government agencies overcome budget shortfalls and ensure students can return to schools while retaining the flexibility offered by remote and hybrid learning environments.

Join Grants Office and special guests from SHI as we explore the various funding sources available and ensure you are armed with the funding tools and strategies necessary to implement your technology-enabled projects. Whether you are with a state or local government, healthcare organization, K-12 school, or institution of higher education, this session will help you make the most of the stimulus funding being made available to your organization.

Each year over $1 billion in grant funding is distributed by federal, state and foundation grantmakers. In addition to this annual money, the federal government has made over $6 trillion in stimulus funds available over the past 16 months. However, simply knowing that the money exists does not bring you any closer funding your community broadband initiative, securing your hybrid learning environment, advancing your smart transportation project, or accommodating providers and patients through telehealth devices.

Join experts from Grants Office and Insight Public Sector to learn more about the latest technology you will need in a post-Pandemic world, specific grants that will pay for it and how Insight is teaming with Grants Office to make sure you have grant specialists available to you for your grantseeking efforts. This session has something for everyone - we urge you to attend whether you are an institution of higher education, K-12 school, state or local agency, healthcare provider or tribal entity.

Join Grants Office and Cornerstone for a review of the new American Rescue Plan state and local grant funds that can help agencies across the public sector get their teams and constituents the training they need to thrive in 2021 and beyond. During this session, we’ll also review tips for leveraging these programs, and highlights of how organizations are leveraging on-demand learning from Cornerstone to make it all happen.

Grant funding for corrections mobility projects is widespread and readily available – from the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, State public safety agencies, and others. But sometimes developing a project that can win funding can pose a challenge to law enforcement agency leaders, particularly if they don’t have a great deal of experience with competitive grants.

Join Grants Office and special guests from Samsung as we provide a review of the strategies and tools that can help you confidently develop grant applications for your next mobility project.

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Le Gouvernement Français a placé les Petites et Moyennes Entreprises et les Entreprises de Taille Intermédiaire au cœur de son Plan de Relance pour faire face à la COVID-19, en déployant des mesures inédites de soutien financier afin d’encourager l'investissement et la modernisation de ses entreprises. Le résultat final se traduit par de nombreuses subventions attrayantes qui peuvent être mobilisées pour les clients de Cisco en 2021 et au-delà. Mais les financements circulent rapidement ! Seuls ceux qui sont prêts à saisir ces opportunités historiques pourront faire avancer leurs projets à vocation technologique grâce à un financement par subvention.

Chers partenaires, joignez-vous aux représentants de Cisco et de Grants Office pour aider vos clients à bénéficier des meilleures opportunités actuellement disponibles dans le large paysage des aides financières en France pour soutenir leurs projets de transformation digitale ! Nous discuterons des programmes de relance adaptés à la technologie, des solutions qui sont en demande et des ressources gratuites de soutien aux subventions que vous pouvez exploiter pour sécuriser vos projets communs avec vos clients et augmenter vos ventes grâce à ces subventions

Another round of historic stimulus funding has created yet more new opportunities for local governments to leverage technology to transform the way they deliver services to citizens in the wake of the pandemic and beyond.

Join Grants Office and special guests from SHI for a look at the latest stimulus funding bill, how these appropriations expand and enhance both past stimulus programs and the annual funding being distributed in the current fiscal year. We’ll also be discussing how technology can help make your agency more efficient and effective, and how the SHI Grants Support Program can help you get it done.

As government IT leaders look to support a newly distributed/hybrid workforce, while empowering teams with the tools needed to be more effective and productive in any environment, they are being faced with reduced budgets. Fortunately, funding has been allocated to support the nation’s ongoing response to the impact of the global pandemic.

Join Grants Office and Logitech in this high-impact informative session as we unpack:

·        NEW funding available in the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act

·        Outline updates on the CARES Act

·        Share best practices in equipping distributed/hybrid workforces and workplaces to support continuity and improved service delivery to constituents

This session will be no longer than 30 minutes and cover important questions such as: 

·        What projects can Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act be used?

·        What projects can CARES Act funding be used?

·        Who in my organization should I involve?

·        What key dates do I need to keep in mind?

·        When do I have to obligate funds?

·        Can I get reimbursed for technology expenses related to COVID?

·        What conferencing and productivity solutions are addressing these challenges?

Free Whitepaper

All registered attendees will receive a copy of the Top 3 Ways to Make the Most of Stimulus Funding: High-Priority Technology Needs in Education, Healthcare and Government whitepaper to learn how investments in video conferencing, communication, and productivity devices can support your program goals and provide long term economic and social benefits.

Hope springs eternal as the U.S. Government rolls out recently approved vaccinations that will put the Coronavirus nightmare in the rearview mirror. However, lost revenue and budget shortfalls will continue to impact state and local governments, education entities and healthcare providers in the immediate future and well beyond the point that Coronavirus is no longer considered a pandemic. 

At this point, public sector agency staff are exhausted as they struggle to fund critical operations that are crucial to serving their constituency. We want to help! Logitech has partnered with Grants Office, LLC to make sure you are armed with up-to-date information on stimulus funds that you can access to support pandemic-induced changes to workflow and operations, such as distance learning in educational settings, remote work for state and local government agencies and telemedicine in the healthcare sector.     

In order to maximize the investment of your time, Logitech and Grants Office, LLC will host 3 separate Stimulus Quick Hits sessions on January 13. Each one will be focused on a specific sector and will last 20 minutes. The session will include the latest grants intelligence on stimulus funding as well as a brief overview of Logitech solutions that can help get you through the Pandemic. We look forward to your attendance at one or more of the sessions:

• Stimulus Quick Hits: Maximizing Your Share of COVID Relief Funding for Education Entities; 1PM Eastern
• Stimulus Quick Hits: Maximizing Your Share of COVID Relief Funding for Healthcare Entities; 2PM Eastern
• Stimulus Quick Hits: Maximizing Your Share of COVID Relief Funding for State and Local Government Agencies; 3PM Eastern

The CARES Act funding in Texas has entered an urgent stage, where it needs to be allocated and spent in the next 3-8 weeks. Large buckets of funding remain available across a variety of grant opportunities in the K-12 education, healthcare, public safety, and state and local government sectors. If you’ve considered Chromebooks, tablets, or smartphones for remote learning, telehealth, social distancing, situational awareness, and working from home, CARES funding can potentially fund these projects. However, it can be challenging to figure out what funding opportunities are available, how to access them, and how they can be used to fund your mobility-enabled projects. Beyond the CARES Act, there’s also a variety of other federal, state, and foundation grants that can support a wide range of mobility-friendly initiatives across Texas, particularly in response to the COVID crisis.

Join grants professionals from Grants Office and special guests from Samsung for a fireside chat about the Texas funding that is available to support mobility-powered initiatives and updates from the front lines on how this technology is transforming public sector services.

If you’re looking to take advantage of CARES funding to develop or expand a mobility project in 2021, you won’t want to miss this event!

The federal government has been making historic amounts of grant funding available to state and local governments, through COVID-related stimulus funding like the CARES Act as well as through its slate of annual grant programs, for a wide range of technology-enabled projects. And more now than ever, the agencies that know about these funding streams and can rally the resources to apply will get more of what’s available.

Join Grants Office and special guests from SHI for a look at the stimulus funding that is already making its way to governments and the grant programs that can help support state and local technology initiatives better meet the needs of citizens and fill resource gaps that may have developed in your agency. We’ll also be discussing how technology can help make your agency more efficient and effective, and how the SHI Grants Support Program can help you get it done.

If you’re feeling like there’s a lot of funding flying around and you want to make sure you capture every dollar you can, you won't want to miss this event!

Campuses across the educational landscape have had to move quickly to support distance learning and and are scrambling to continue their research projects from off campus. The technology required to support these initiatives has been largely defined by what was readily available. But as institutions settle into this new reality, it makes sense to take another look at the technologies that can more robustly support virtual education and research as learners and researchers work both on and off campus.

Join Grants Office and special guests from Rice University, OpenStax, and HP for a look at how machine learning and cognitive science are delivering better online learning outcomes and how HP's new ZCentral remote workstation technology is enabling learning and research from a distance. Also, Grants Office will share a valuable synopsis of grant programs that are available to fund solutions like these on your campus.

If you’re looking to take a more circumspect approach to funding and deploying distance education that advances student learning and research outcomes by leveraging evidence-based technology solutions, you won’t want to miss this event!

Congress has passed three bills in the past month, appropriating 2.4 trillion dollars to help states and local communities respond to the coronavirus pandemic and alleviate the severe economic distress that has come with it. Among the unemployment insurance benefits and checks to individuals are billions of dollars in grants for healthcare, education, and public safety. And most of these funds are intended to be distributed quickly.

Join the Grants Office team for an (admittedly wonky) analysis of the grant funding included in all three bills. We'll cover the parameters and amounts of new funding that will be available and discuss how these funds will be distributed across the public sector landscape.

As with the stimulus grants of 2008, preparation now can make the difference in getting the funding you need to meet your community's critical needs!

Funding can often be the single biggest barrier to implementing innovative projects that have the potential to significantly improve the impact and effectiveness of state and local government agencies.

* Meaningful technology-enabled projects can improve the safety and economic well-being of citizens, reduce traffic congestion, and foster a more dynamic community, and it’s not unusual to have a backlog of great but unfunded project ideas. Don’t let a lack of funding stand in the way of progress!

* Join Grants Office and special guests from Strictly Tech and HP, as we discuss upcoming federal and state funding for local and state government agencies. In this one-hour webinar, we’ll also provide tips for developing a fundable technology project and discuss best practices for leveraging technology to advance government initiatives.

As a special thank-you, everyone who registers will receive a PDF copy of Technology-friendly Grants for Florida Governments, full of details on grant programs that will be available throughout the coming year. If you have projects, you’re looking to fund this year, you won’t want to miss this fast-paced and informative event!

Join Grants Office for a discussion of what to expect in the coming year from federal and state funders, and highlights of some of the most promising new grant programs. Grants Office CEO Michael Paddock will also be taking a few moments to introduce our new Annual Grants Support Program, aimed at empowering institutions and communities across the country with access to relevant, actionable grants intelligence and support.

The Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program will provide more than $200million in funding for Firefighting and EMS needs in 2019. This includes provisions for a variety of robust technology solutions that provide data-rich situational awareness and enhanced dispatch capabilities.

Join Grants Office and special guests from Samsung for a look at how AFG funding can support technology purchases for fire and EMS applications. We’ll also discuss tips and resources available to help make your 2019 AFG application the most competitive, rewarding, and responsive to your community’s needs yet!

The use of mobile devices - including cellphones, in-car computers, radios, and body-worn cameras - has revolutionized the way public safety agencies across the country operate on a day-to-day basis. No longer is crisp, quality communication a luxury limited to large metropolitan details or specialized teams. Today, high-quality mobile devices are available to first responder agencies of all types and sizes across the US.

Despite such wide-spread adoption of mobile-based response efforts, departments struggle to cover the costs of quality technology solutions. Budgets are tight. Staff members are spread thin. When additional funding is available, it is often funneled to overtime salaries, managing backlogs, and replenishing essential supplies. As a result, many first responder agencies struggle to pay for basic mobility programs - let alone fund comprehensive, agency-wide technology initiatives.

Fortunately, there are a wide variety of grant programs available to address funding gaps for public safety technology. Join Grants Office and special guests from Samsung and Verizon as we discuss grant funding for police, fire, EMS, and other first responder agencies. Along the way, we’ll take a look at how mobile technology solutions are simplifying the ways public safety organizations communicate and collaborate over the Verizon Network. If you're looking to fund upgrades or expansions to your organization’s mobile operations in 2020, you definitely won't want to miss this event!

The launch and subsequent expansion of FirstNet in support of public safety has not only provided a robust network that first responders rely on for their day-to-day communications and data sharing needs, but it also helped articulate the unique requirements of the public safety community as a specialized group among communications customers. Now that FirstNet is a reality, and along with it, cutting edge devices that promise to expand the capacity and effectiveness of first responders, you may be wondering: how do I pay for it?

Join TJ Kennedy, former President of FirstNet and co-founder of the Public Safety Network, and Ashley Schultz, Grants Development Consultant at Grants Office, as we discuss trends and best practices in public safety technology that leverage the FirstNet network and public safety-related grants from a variety of federal agencies. We will also discuss how to effectively justify the inclusion of FirstNet-enabled equipment, network upgrades, consulting fees, and other infrastructure improvements into a grant budget. To conclude, we'll offer some general tips for writing a successful grant proposal to increase the likelihood your next project will stand out from the rest.

If you're looking to make your agency’s equipment FirstNet-ready in 2019, you definitely won't want to miss this fast-paced and informative grantscast!

Communities across the country are looking for funding to deal with the growing opioid epidemic. Through the traditional appropriations process and the recent passage of the SUPPORT Act, the federal government is planning significant investments in fighting the crisis over the next decade. But there are so many components to the problem that organizations are often overwhelmed and often times don't know where to start. Funding can be found across the federal landscape regardless of whether you are a healthcare provider delivering prevention and treatment services, a public health agency conducting surveillance of the problem or first responders and public safety personnel dealing with it on the front lines.

Join Grants Office and special guests from the City of New Orleans Health Department as we review upcoming funding sources for opioid-related projects, offer tips to increase your chances of winning, and discuss technology-solutions that can be used by communities to tackle the opioid crisis!

Whether you’re involved in law enforcement, public health, treatment or prevention efforts – you’ll find something useful for you in this face-paced and informative event!

For any city or county, successfully implementing a major technology initiative demands solid strategy and effective tools to make it happen. Fortunately, your partners at Insight Public Sector and NetApp and have brought together resources and best practices to help make launching your technology project a whole lot easier.

Join a group of leaders from NetApp, Insight Public Sector, and Grants Office for an end-to-end discussion of best practices for developing, funding, procuring, and deploying your next technology project.

We’ll be discussing:

- Developing a 360-degree project plan for your technology project: how Insight Public Sector works with municipal customers like yours to develop winning project plans

- Funding your project from internal and external sources: how the NetApp Grants Support program can help you identify new sources of funding

- Procuring the technology and services when you need them and at the right price: how OMNIA Partners, Public Sector (subsidiaries US Communities and National IPA) enables you to easily and confidently acquire everything you need at the best overall supplier government pricing

- Deploying your technology initiative with fewer snags: how Insight Public Sector and NetApp cut costs, reduce risks, and bring industry-leading experience to all levels of government

If you're looking to streamline your next technology rollout, you won't want to miss this fast-paced and informative webinar!

An entire subset of federal grant programs provides millions of dollars in support of Tribal projects, and because they are more narrowly focused than most other grants, they may also be less competitive. But in order to tap into these funds for your Tribal initiatives, it’s important to know where to find them and how to structure your application to win.

This is especially true for technology-rich projects, which fit with a number of these grant programs, but only as a means of achieving the educational, healthcare, and public safety objectives of the programs.

Join Grants Office CEO Michael Paddock and special guests from PCMG and Dell for a look at the landscape of Tribal-focused grants and the technology solutions they support. We’ll also discuss steps to developing an impactful technology-rich project that addresses your community’s need and objectives, as well as tips for making your proposal truly competitive.

If you're looking to get a Tribal project funded this year, you won't want to miss this fast-paced and informative webinar!

The US Department of Justice is now accepting applications for the much-anticipated Body-worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program (BWC PIP). Up to $23 million is available for state, municipal, and tribal law enforcement agencies to establish and enhance law enforcement body-worn camera programs across the United States.

Join Michael Paddock (Grants Office CEO) and Ashley Schultz (State & Local Government Grant Development Consultant) to discuss steps you can take to bring your agency’s BWC PIP proposal across the finish line. This presentation will walk through the application process and submission requirements. Along the way, we’ll highlight tips and best practices gathered by our funding team since BWC PIP began in 2014. As a special thanks to all attendees, every law enforcement official who registers for this webinar will receive a Grant Readiness Assessment for your body-worn camera program and a free proposal review by a Grants Development Consultant.

Proposals to the Body-worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program are due May 31st. Be sure to join us this Friday to position your agency for a successful grant submission for this all-important public safety initiative.

In applications across the country, video as a tool for public safety and justice has increased officer safety, improved community relations, and supported convictions, and as a result, we see cameras cropping up all over – on buildings, in cruisers, on uniforms, and even on handguns. But adding new cameras, especially rolling out video initiatives across an entire department, can be expensive, and even if you can afford the cameras, the existing IT infrastructure may not support them. This is a common issue that can lead to chicken-and-egg discussions about upgrading infrastructure or buying cameras and can present a serious barrier to deploying the video tools you know will advance your public safety mission.

Fortunately, there are resources available to help make your video deployment possible, without breaking the budget.

Join Grants Office and special guests from the SentiVault team as we discuss a two-pronged approach to solving the budget-infrastructure dilemma. First, Grants Office consultants will show you how to find and access video-friendly grants to fund the purchase and deployment of cameras and the infrastructure they need to run optimally. Second, the SentiVault team will provide guidelines for planning and configuring a video initiative, so that it uses only the bandwidth and storage it needs and keeps operating costs down.

If you’re considering starting or expanding a video initiative this year, you won’t want to miss this event!

Special Note: Everyone who registers for this event will receive a PDF copy of the 2018 Guide to Grants that Fund Law Enforcement Video, full of information on video-friendly grants and tips for getting your video project funded.

The Grants.gov Workspace has finally arrived, and it's a major step forward in electronic grants administration!

Join the Grants Office team for this orientation to what's new with Workspace, including how to manage the people and documents associated with your proposal, and tips for making the most of the tools Workspace offers.

We believe this interface is going to be around for a long time, and developing a good working knowledge of the system will be time well spent. If you're planning to submit a federal grant application in the foreseeable future, you won't want to miss this event!

For public safety officials in any community, successfully implementing a body-worn camera initiative demands solid strategy and effective tools, as well as sufficient funding to make it happen.

This fast-paced, one-hour webinar will cover:

• Developing a 360-degree project plan for your body-worn camera project: technical specifications and guidance from experts who’ve worked hands-on in dozens of BWC deployments

• Funding your project with grants: an overview of the DOJ’s BWC funding and a host of other potential sources of funding for your project

• Deploying your BWC initiative with fewer snags: tips for avoiding common pitfalls

If you're looking to streamline and fund your BWC rollout, you won't want to miss this informative webinar!

Every year, nearly $50 billion dollars in grant funds are awarded by private and corporate foundations – with many of these dollars going to support education initiatives. For those who have only considered state or federal competitive grant opportunities, this means that you could be missing out on a number of relevant funding sources. Foundation funders are often less constrained in their grant making, and as a result, can be quite technology-friendly as well. Further, foundation grants are a great way for staff at schools or districts with little to no grant-seeking experience to hone their skills.

Join Grants Office and special guests from Microsoft and Connection Public Sector Solutions for a fast-paced review of tips for developing proposals in response to foundation funding opportunities, in addition to some of the most popular education technologies available to districts. Whether you’re looking to fund a few devices for a single classroom or a larger education technology initiative spanning your entire district or school, this session will give you the foundation you need to find and compete for grants from a wide variety of foundation funders!

In ways we could only imagine a decade ago, technology is improving the delivery of services across state and local governments. Isolated systems can now work together, we have the capacity to capture and analyze data like never before, and information can be delivered into our hands exactly how and when we need it.

But all this advancement comes at a price, sometimes a steep one, and funding to support innovation can seem elusive. Fortunately, there are a number of federal and state grant programs that have been specifically created to support innovation in specific public sector applications, and learning about them is the first step in accessing them!

Join Grants Office CEO and special guests from NetApp for a fast-paced look at how leading communities have been able to fund innovation and the technologies that have dramatically improved outcomes across government. As a thank you for participating in this event, every government representative who registers will receive a free Grants Office Funding Opportunity Report, developed just for you with information you provide and detailing the grant opportunities that could fund your community’s plans for innovation.

For any city or county, successfully implementing a major technology initiative demands solid strategy and effective tools to make it happen. Fortunately, your partners at Insight Public Sector and NetApp and have brought together resources and best practices to help make launching your technology project a whole lot easier.

Join a group of leaders from NetApp, Insight Public Sector, and Grants Office for an end-to-end discussion of best practices for developing, funding, procuring, and deploying your next technology project, and we’ll be using an example you may be dealing with yourself: a department-wide law enforcement body-worn camera rollout.

We’ll be discussing:

* Developing a 360-degree project plan for your technology project: how Insight Public Sector works with municipal customers like yours to develop winning project plans

* Funding your project from internal and external sources: how the NetApp Grants Support program can help you identify new sources of funding

* Procuring the technology and services when you need them and at the right price: how the US Communities Government Purchasing Alliance enables you to easily and confidently acquire everything you need at the best overall supplier government pricing

* Deploying your technology initiative with fewer snags: how Insight Public Sector and NetApp cut costs, reduce risks, and bring industry-leading experience to all levels of government

If you're looking to streamline your next technology rollout, especially if you’ve been looking into a body-worn camera initiative, you won't want to miss this fast-paced and informative webinar!

Public safety agencies across the country are swimming in data from an expanding array of sources that might now also include body-worn video and intelligence data from fusion centers. But are you getting what you need from all this data, and how can you get funding to help you mobilize your data for your agency and community?

Join Grants Office CEO Michael Paddock and special guests from NetApp for a look at the issues that the growth in data are creating, tips for accessing and using your data to achieve better policing outcomes faster, and strategies for converting outcomes into funding to help you pay for it.

CLICK THE LINK TO VIEW THE RECORDING: 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.

The Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program provides funding for a wide range of Firefighting and EMS needs, including robust technology solutions that provide data-rich situational awareness and enhanced dispatch capabilities. 

Join Grants Office CEO Michael Paddock and special guests from Panasonic for a look at how AFG funds technology for fire and EMS applications and what resources are available to help make your 2014 AFG application competitive, rewarding, and responsive to your community’s needs.

The Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program provides funding for a wide range of Firefighting and EMS needs, including robust technology solutions that provide data-rich situational awareness and enhanced dispatch capabilities.

Join Grants Office CEO Michael Paddock and special guests from Panasonic for a look at how AFG funds technology for fire and EMS applications and what resources are available to help make your 2014 AFG application competitive, rewarding, and responsive to your community’s needs.