City Tech Seeks Applicants for 2019 Connect Chicago Innovation Program
City Tech is pleased accept applications for the second round of the Connect Chicago Innovation Program along with funders Microsoft, Comcast, Sprint, the Lenovo Foundation, Gogo, Clarity Partners, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The Connect Chicago Innovation Program will support collaborative, new ideas to increase tech access, skills, and engagement across Chicago. Applications are open today!
At City Tech, we form cross-sector coalitions that aim to solve complex urban changes that no one institution can address alone. Through our piloting work , we do this across public health, mobility, waste management, and other essential city categories. Technology inequity is a likewise complex challenge, stemming from gaps in Internet access and infrastructure, digital skills, relevancy, and hardware access.
Fortunately, Chicago has a robust ecosystem of digital inclusion players, from churches to adult literacy organizations to our library system. City Tech’s Connect Connect Chicago Innovation Program aims to catalyze new partnerships between these diverse institutions and support new digital inclusion solutions and models that Chicago and other cities can scale.
About the Connect Chicago Innovation Program
Applications for the Connect Chicago Innovation Program open on February 18th and close on March 18th at 11:59pm CST. Each application should come from teams comprised of two or more partnered organizations.
In 2019, the winning team will be awarded (1) professional development support from City Tech to refine, workshop, and develop the proposed solution (2) up to $60,000 to support a pilot to test their collaborative idea.
How do I learn more and apply?
Nonprofit organizations can apply for the Connect Chicago Innovation Program by filling out this online form at bit.ly/ccapp2019 by 11:59pm CST on March 18th, 2019.
To learn more about the application process, what we're looking for in applications, what support winning proposals will receive, and the deliverables winning projects will be expected to complete you can read our FAQs on the Connect Chicago Innovation Program & Application.
If you have any questions about City Tech’s Connect Chicago Innovation Program, please email Please email City Tech’s Manager of Operations and Services, Meera Raja at meera.raja@uilabs.org.
About City Tech Collaborative (City Tech): City Tech reinvents cities. With partners and people, we remake essential services and infrastructure, from skills to skyscrapers. We then prepare these solutions for other cities, thus increasing the world’s odds of solving big, urban problems. We are currently easing subway congestion during large events; creating a digital map of Chicago’s underground; and launching a digital directory of public health services in Chicago.To learn more, follow City Tech on Twitter or join our LinkedIN group.
