Userful Corporation - Userful Launches “Secure Your Funding” Stimulus Bill Initiative

Store this angel in big sizeCalgary, AB – July 14, 2009 – Userful announces the “Secure Your Funding” action to advice libraries, association colleges and added accessible area organizations administer for, and accept Broadband Technology Opportunity Program bang money. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) has allocated $7.2 billion to activate the development of broadband infrastructure. This includes a minimum of $200 actor to aggrandize accessible accretion centermost capacity. The federal government began accepting applications for the aboriginal $4 billion of allotment today, July 14. The appliance aeon for this annular will abutting on August 14.

The action aims to advice libraries and added accessible area organizations who ambition to defended allotment by accouterment a committed aggregation of humans that these organizations can buzz or e-mail to get admonition on how to defended funding. The action is aswell accouterment a alternation of webinars (online seminars) and assets which accommodate an overview of the program, eligibility, and tips on how to adapt a acknowledged appliance to accomplish it simple for organizations to administer with confidence. The aboriginal such webinar took abode on May 19 with John Windhausen, a Washington DC based technology allotment adviser who served as communications admonition for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and has accounting abundant studies and white affidavit on technology funding. Ginny Bird, Director of New River Public Library Cooperative abounding the webinar and declared it as a... “Good webinar, abstruse added in an hour on the Stimulus Bill than I did at an all day meeting.” A video of the webinar can be apparent here: userful.com/media/webinar/stimulus-bill .

“This bang allotment is actual important for libraries and added accessible area organizations,” said Daniel Griffin, VP of accessible accretion at Userful. “Unfortunately there is a sea of abashing about the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program which is authoritative it difficult for these organizations to get the allotment they charge and deserve. Any libraries or added accessible area organizations analytic for advice applying for accessible computer centermost bang allotment should buzz one of our abreast assembly at: 1-866-873-9126 or e-mail: info@userful.com .”

On July 2 the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) appear a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) that describes appliance procedures and activity appraisal processes for the $4 billion aboriginal annular of allotment that opened for applications today. A abridgment of the NOFA highlighting the important items that organizations charge to apperceive to administer for the accessible computer centermost chic is accessible here: library.userful.com/btop-synopsis.php . All of the money in this annular is accepted to be accepted by September 30, 2010 with two added circuit of allotment accepted to follow. Libraries, association colleges and added accessible area organizations who would like to crop advantage of this action should phone: 1-866-873-9126, or e-mail: info@userful.com.

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Press Contacts: Sean Rousseau, Marketing Manager Userful Phone (international): +1.250.590.7791 Toll chargeless (Within North America): +1.866.873.9008 srousseau@media-userful.com

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