Virtual Annual State Summits: We help state and local leaders build capacity for change and measurable impact on poverty.
"For several years, NCDE has pioneered annual state summits that bring together state and local leaders from low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities, from education, banking, workforce development and philanthropy. Our aim is to foster action planning in a state’sLMI communities to improve coordination and alignment of otherwise siloed efforts to help LMI learners of all ages and their families to climb out of inter-generational poverty.
We orient state and local leaders to essential dimensions of a systemic approach to digital equity in support of systemic inclusion. We explore:
We orient state and local leaders to essential dimensions of a systemic approach to digital equity in support of systemic inclusion. We explore:
- why less than systemic approaches to the digital divide and building better bridges out of poverty have been found conclusively not to work.
- research on essential dimensions to address for impact.
- resources and service providers available to help address each dimension (providers of affordable and free broadband, computers, tech support, etc.)
- examples of LMI communities that have undertaken bank CRA and/or foundation-financed systemic digital equity and systemic inclusion initiatives.
- intensive action planning among an LMI community’s leaders, with attention to ensuring voice and agency (“nothing about us without us“) for those living in poverty to inform and shape local efforts
- intensive action planning to develop an active statewide network by which LMI community teams share resources and promising practices.
- designing sustained initiatives that can only be addressed cost effectively through regional or statewide collaboration — e.g., spurring CRA investment for affordable broadband across a state’s under-served rural and urban areas.