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Sustainability has become a global priority. Join the Cisco Public Funding Office and the experts over at Grants Office as we explore the world of grant funding for sustainable practices and its immense potential for positive change.

We’ll provide you with invaluable insights and practical knowledge in securing grants for initiatives across 4 major sustainability pillars:

• Conservation – empowering you to protect and restore natural resources while fostering biodiversity.
• Reduction of Carbon Footprints – enabling you to make your organization more environmentally friendly and resilient.
• Education and Awareness – inspiring wider community involvement to promote sustainability efforts.
• Research and Development – encouraging innovation and breakthroughs that push the boundaries of sustainability practice.

Whether you are a university researcher, nonprofit environmental education organization, transportation agency, or public utilities provider, our expert speakers will guide you through the grant funding landscape and share tips and strategies to increase your chances of success. You’ll also learn about the grant-seeking support services available through the Cisco Public Funding Office. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to unlock the potential of sustainability grant funding and drive positive change within your organization and community.

While the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of telehealth technologies, there is still much to be done to modernize healthcare in the United States. Maintaining critical applications solely within traditional data centers proves to be increasingly unsustainable for many healthcare organizations. The prevailing question is no longer "Why Cloud?" but rather "When Cloud?" During this event, we will explore the strategic considerations surrounding the migration of healthcare systems to the cloud. Most importantly, we will explore grant programs available to accomplish your cloud-based initiatives and discuss best practices to help you secure funding.

Join Grants Office and special guests from Ingram Micro & Keystone Technologies as we navigate the healthcare funding landscape for cloud technologies and discover how leveraging cloud technologies, including electronic health records, can enhance healthcare delivery, streamline operations, and drive innovation. You will not want to miss this informative session.

Join Grants Office and special guests from Ingram Micro Cloud as we delve into the world of foundation grant funding for your next cloud-technology-enabled project. Whether you’re a nonprofit organization, K-12 school, college development office, or healthcare fundraiser, we will provide you with the knowledge and strategies necessary to pursue foundation grant opportunities successfully.

During this event, you’ll learn:

• the intricacies of foundation grant-seeking
• how foundation funders differ from their public (state & federal) grant-making fellows
• strategies for building relationships with foundation funders
• how to appropriately align your needs to this unique set of grant-maker's interests and requirements. 

Our experts will guide you through developing long-term relationships with foundations and how to articulate key project and budget components in your applications, thus increasing your chances of securing an award. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock the potential of foundation grant funding for your cloud-technology-enabled projects. Register now to gain the tools and strategies necessary to navigate the landscape of foundation grant-seeking effectively.

Since 1994, the Department of Justice has invested over $14 billion in community policing efforts through the Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, office. With the threat of violent incidents at our nation’s schools, how can this funding help support school districts and law enforcement agencies better protect our schools?

Through the bipartisan Stop School Violence Act of 2018, the COPS office has successfully funded efforts in helping to keep our country’s schools safe and better prepared for unexpected acts of violence through the School Violence Prevention Program, or SVPP. This very successful, yet highly competitive, grant program will see around $73 million in funding per year until 2028.

Tight budgets don't have to stall your institution's ability to provide a safe environment. Sign up to learn:
- The latest security technologies available to support your campus's safety efforts
- Grant opportunities, including a federal grant opportunity from COPS School Violence Prevention Program, specifically geared towards the security needs of education institutions
- How to effectively justify technology in your next grant proposal

If you are interested in utilizing security technology to enhance your school's security, you don’t want to miss this event! Included with your registration is a FREE workbook guiding you through the application process of the COPS School Violence Prevention Program grant, access to the FREE Genetec Grants Support Program, and access to view and download the presentation slides and a recording of the webinar.

Technology is an essential piece of a comprehensive security plan for colleges and universities. As institutions are tasked with investing in intelligent security cameras, unified access control systems, and other technology solutions to expand campus safety personnel's capabilities, they are also finding that financing these solutions can be challenging. For campus leaders to adequately address the increasingly complex security threats to institutions of higher education and the rising comprehensive safety expectations from employees, students, and students' families, security technology must be a priority. 

Tight budgets don't have to stall your institution's ability to provide a safe environment. Sign up to learn about:
- The latest security technologies available to support your campus's safety efforts
- Grant opportunities, including a federal grant opportunity from the Office on Violence Against Women that is specifically geared towards higher education institutions' security needs
- How to effectively justify technology in your next grant proposal

If you are interested in utilizing security technology to enhance your institution's environment, you don’t want to miss this event! Included with your registration is a FREE workbook guiding you through the application process of the Office on Violence Against Women grant, access to the FREE Genetec Grants Support Program, and access to view and download the presentation slides and a recording of the webinar.

Nearly 20% of all Americans live within areas or on tribal land designated as "rural." With rurality come unique challenges for transportation, public safety, infrastructure, healthcare, education, and training. Services to support such dispersed populations can be costly. Learn how technologies are helping rural communities solve these issues, as well as several grant programs aimed to help in these efforts. Technology is transforming rural communities and tribal organizations with significant improvements to broadband access and improved infrastructure capabilities, increasing rural resiliency, economic development, and quality of life.

Don't let limited funding stand in the way of your next rural or tribal community-supporting project, join Grants Office, and special guests from Ingram Micro, to learn about:
- The latest technologies available to support your mission-drive efforts
- The funding landscape for organizations supporting rural and tribal organizations
- How to effectively justify the inclusion of technology solutions in your next grant proposal

If you're a tribal or public sector organization engaged in transportation, public safety, healthcare, or education supporting tribal and/or rural citizens, you won't want to miss this fast-paced and informative event!

Did you know there are over 26 federal grant-making agencies, awarding over $700 Billion in grant funds each year? With so many grant opportunities available, though, it can be difficult to know where to begin.

You might wonder: which among all these possible funding programs makes the most sense to pursue? Will the grant in question allow you to fund your project's necessary expenses? And, how can you best position your organization to compete for this funding?

For answers to these questions and more, join Genetec and Grants Office, LLC as we discuss how to get your organization "grant ready". We’ll discuss the hallmarks of grant-ready organizations, best practice tips for planning a technology-enabled project proposal, and steps you can take today to prepare for your grant-seeking journey.

If you’re looking to think creatively and act strategically about your organization's grant-seeking habits, you won’t want to miss this event!

Education and workforce development providers must meet the needs of their students and the local labor demands. They must also have technology that can help them achieve these goals. Learn how your education or workforce development organization can innovate with Grants Office, Ingram Micro Cloud, and additional guest speakers. Discover ways to fund these initiatives through grant programs by the Department of Education, state grantmakers, and more.

Sign up to learn about:
- The latest education and workforce development technology to support your innovative efforts
- Examples of grant programs that you can apply for
- How to effectively justify technology in a grant proposal

If you are interested in utilizing technology to facilitate your education and workforce development initiatives, you don’t want to miss this event!

Every day, we hear of another cyber-attack on public sector organizations. Malicious actors are eager to get a hold of data and state and local agencies, k-12 schools, institutes of higher education, and healthcare facilities are all scrambling to protect against the next assault. One of the biggest challenges they face is how to fund these protections. Fortunately, between the American Rescue Plan (ARP), Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which includes the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP), and more, there are many grants available to fund cybersecurity solutions.

Join Grants Office, and special guests from CrowdStrike, to learn about cybersecurity solutions, funding opportunities to purchase those solutions, and how you can best position yourself to receive those monies. If you are concerned about your organization's cybersecurity and want to protect your data, you don't want to miss this Grantscast.

In a world characterized by the explosion of the Internet of Things (IOT), public sector agencies are being asked to make investments in technology that can increase safety, increase efficiency, streamline processes, and improve services for their target customers, whether they be constituents, students, or passengers. The application of IOT is limitless across the public sector. IOT can be used by school systems to monitor and improve the safety of students and employees. State and local governments and transit agencies are also leveraging IOT to develop interconnected transportation systems that serve as the backbone for the creation of smart cities and communities.

For many public agencies that have limited financial resources, making investments in IOT is secondary to maintaining personnel to meet the most basic needs of the citizens and students they serve. However, investing in IOT can serve as a multiplier in efficiency that cannot be achieved by the addition of personnel. And fortunately, there are many grants available to school districts, institutions of higher education, state and local governments, public safety entities, transit agencies, and utility companies to deploy IOT-enabled projects to improve the overall safety, sustainability, and efficiency of their operations.

Join Grants Office and special guests from Samsara to learn about the grant funding landscape for IOT-enabled projects in the public sector. In addition to information on specific funding programs and IOT solutions, participants will receive tips and discover best practices for securing the grant funding they need for their project.