Illinois Broadband Breakthrough 2025 Informational Webinar 12 09 2024

Broadband Breakthrough: Your community’s pathway to better broadband!
Monday, December 9 at 12PM CT

Broadband Breakthrough puts your community leadership at the center of your community’s broadband future. Federal and state broadband grant programs require strong community input. Is your community prepared to take advantage of the coming broadband funding? Or are you just hoping for the best? Broadband Breakthrough supports your leadership team with quality data and knowledge and enhances your ability to pursue and select the right broadband partners and technology that will influence your community’s future over the coming decades. This is a guided self-help program. Each community should have a team of at least eight people ready to work on the program.

Learn everything that you need to know from the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and project partners like Illinois Extension and the Illinois Broadband Lab. Even better, hear success stories from recent Broadband Breakthrough participants about the enhanced broadband situations in their communities. Broadband providers are especially interested in working with communities that are knowledgeable and prepared to be good partners as they pursue expanded broadband territories. Broadband Breakthrough will increase your capacity to be a smart and supportive community partner.

The application is easy with the primary requirement being a list of team members. We will review and approve applications as we receive them with the first two joining our current cohort. If you want to get a jump on your application, please contact Reid Sharkey at [email protected].

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