Native Entities Grant Program

For programmatic questions:
Agela Thi Bennett
202.482.2048
broadbandgrants@ntia.gov

For grant management questions:
Shanell Williams
202.578.4740
shanell.williams@nist.gov

For media questions:
202.482.7002
press@ntia.doc.gov

Grants.gov contact center:
800.518.4726
support@grants.gov
Self-service knowledge base

System for award management (SAM):
866.606.8220
Federal service desk

The Native Entities Grant Program offers funds set aside for grants to Indian Tribes, Alaska Native entities, and Native Hawaiian organizations under the Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program and the Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program to allow those tribes, entities, and organizations to promote the adoption of broadband within their communities. This program will complement broadband deployment efforts and expand broadband access to unserved communities. Projects funded under this program should advance innovation, protect the interests of children, and deliver measurable improvements in broadband adoption and use by supporting at least one of the following:

• Develop and implement use and adoption of broadband activities
• Facilitate educational and employment opportunities through broadband
• Implement training programs that cover basic, advanced, and applied skills or other workforce development programs
• Make available equipment, instrumentation, networking capability hardware and software or digital network technology for broadband services at low or no cost (including broadband service subsidies)
• Construct, upgrade, expand, or operate new or existing public access computing centers through community anchor institutions
• Undertake any other project or activity found to be consistent with the purposes for which the Program is established

Eligible applicants include Indian tribes, Alaska Native entities, Native Hawaiian organizations, or a consortium of eligible entities.

Award range: $500,000 - $2,500,000
Project period: 4 years
Estimated number of awards: 100
Total program funding: $250,000,000

Funds less than or more than the award range may be requested. Applicants must include justification for their request.

Awarded applicants must contribute at least 10% in matching funds in their application or include a petition to waive some or all of the required 10% match.

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

Submit completed applications and required attachments by:

Online application:
grants.gov

Email:
broadbandgrants@ntia.gov

Mail/courier/delivery service:
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 4878
Attn: Douglas Kinkoph, Associate Administrator
Washington, DC 20230

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