1. Fund for Youth Connectivity
Informational Webinar
August 3, 2017

2. Webinar Overview
Fund for Youth Connectivity Overview
Grantee Requirements
Questions

3. Who I Am CHRISTINA KOSTUK
Senior Program Associate Aspen Forum for Community Solutions

4. Fund for Youth Connectivity
Goals
Provide OY access to new mobile devices/tablets and connectivity
Help OY gain new skills to use those devices to take positive action in their communities and amplify their voices
Connect opportunity youth to jobs, education and other important life skills such as financial management, healthcare, and transportation
The Fund for Youth Connectivity aims to provide opportunity youth, young people between the ages of 16 to 24 who are neither enrolled in school nor participating in the labor market, access to new mobile devices/tablets and connectivity, and help them gain new skills to use those devices to take positive action in their communities. By connecting and providing training these opportunity youth, we anticipate that the ripple effects of this relatively modest number of youth may help to better the lives of many more opportunity youth across the United States.

5. Fund for Youth Connectivity
Partners
Google.org
OYU: Serving 100 OY
2-3 OYIF Communities: Serving a total of 150 OY
Through a grant from Google.org, FYC will leverage its deep bench of technical assistance resources and partners throughout the country for this project. We will partner with Opportunity Youth United, a national youth leadership organization, to serve 100 opportunity youth, as well as two to three sites from across AFCS’s extensive network of opportunity youth serving communities to serve an additional 150 opportunity youth.

6. Fund for Youth Connectivity Eligibility Criteria
Be a current OYIF site
Dedicate the large majority of grant funds to mobile devices, connectivity and local youth media partner
Youth media partner must have a demonstrated willingness or confirmed commitment to working on this project
Implementation and OY training must be completed within 12 months of the start date
Willing to collect and share programmatic and outcome data

7. Fund for Youth Connectivity Preferred Eligibility Criteria
Have an established partnership with a local media organization
Focus on creating more equitable outcomes for specific groups, such as, but not limited to, young men and boys of color, young women and girls of color, youth involved in the child welfare system or transitioning out of foster care, youth involved in the juvenile justice system or parenting youth

8. Fund for Youth Connectivity Technology & Program Design Specifications
OY who receive the devices/connectivity do not need to be the same OY who receive the media production training
Buying new plans/devices for youth recipients is not a re-grant requirement
Basic skills training should include how to use the device, general online safety training, and privacy training, at minimum
OY media production training should include approximately 2 sessions, and include production of a 2-3 minute biographic video
Selected OYIF sites will send at least one representative to attend a session at the OYIF Spring 2018 convening on digital literacy and competency
We recognize that this is a modest grant so, OY who receive the devices and connectivity do not need to be the same OY who receive the media production training. At minimum basic skills training should include how to use the device, general online safety training, and privacy training. In addition to skills training sites will provide media production training should include approximately 2 sessions, and include production of a 2-3 minute biographic video which will be shared across partners in the project (local organizations in the grant, OYU, and AFCS) and which can be used by any of these partners. In addition to the training sites provide, AFCS is developing a toolkit for OY on Social Media best practices and Smart/Safe Cell Use. The media production training organization will secure appropriate releases and copyright assignation as needed. Buying new plans/devices for youth recipients is not a re-grant requirement. FYC funds can be used to reimburse youth who already have plans to assist them in their payments. Selected OYIF sites will send at least one representative to attend a session at the OYIF Spring 2018 convening on digital literacy and competency which they will take back to their communities to teach and integrate into their youth development and training efforts.

9. Fund for Youth Connectivity
Required Grantee Activities
Check in calls with AFCS lead
Facilitate collection of OY produced videos
Return completed OY surveys to AFCS
Have a representative attend the session at the OYIF Spring 2018 on digital literacy and competency

10. Applying to the Fund for Youth Connectivity
Proposal Components
Application Cover Sheet
Proposal Narrative (not to exceed 5 pages; your response to section 1 should not exceed 1 page)
Letter of commitment and/or Memoranda of Understanding from media partner
Copy of organization’s 501(c)3 letter (if applicable)

11. Applying to the Fund for Youth Connectivity
Submission Process
Proposals are due, by electronic submission, to the attention of: Christina Kostuk,
Deadline for submission is August 31st, 2017 by 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Funding decisions will be announced by COB September 7, 2017

12. Questions?