Contact Information
Organization Name:
Here-in Our Motives Evolve, Inc. d/b/a HOME, Inc.
Address:
165 Brookside Avenue Extension
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Why is your organization interested in increased broadband usage among your members and community:
HOME, Inc. serves over 1,500 students in 11 high schools and middle schools in Somerville and Boston, MA with media and computer instruction in lab and cable access facilities. The mission of HOME,Inc. is to empower teens and young adults with 21st century technology skills through digital media training and the creation and distribution of media products that positively impact teens’ lives, address issues of concern, counter negative stereotypes, and promote constructive youth activities and opportunities in our region. We would like to greatly strengthen our interface with our community of teens, their families, educators and the larger world community to provide for self expression, cultural appreciation and connectedness that can lead to educational and economic opportunities.
Unfortunately urban schools and poorer families do not have access and support to use current communications and media technologies that are available in more affluent communities. By helping students to form affiliations and long term connections with caring adults and providing access we will help support our students to produce new media, collaborate in its production, share their work, and develop 21st century skills that can support good citizenship and equity in employment and education.
Demographic Information
Service Area Congressional Districts:
Massachusetts, Eighth Congressional District
Does your organization serve a federally recognized tribal entities? If yes, please identify:
Estimated population size of your service area:
Supporting Vulnerable Populations
Please describe the specific affirmative steps that your program will take to engage and serve the groups identified:
We partner at 11 inner city schools many of which serve over 50% of families that qualify for reduced or free lunch programs. We server large numbers of students in most of our schools, averaging nearly 200 students per shcool with media and technology class and after school activities that are weekly and year long. We also operate a Public Internet Center at the Madison Park Village low income housing development in Boston which serves low income residents almost exclusively.
Please describe the ways your center will be accessible to people with disabilities and technologies will be used:
All of our locations are fully handicapped accessible.
Do you offer, or plan to offer, multilingual training and outreach? If so, please describe and identify languages it will be in:
Our school sites provide bi lingual interpreters for our lab program. Most of the students who are bilingual speak Spanish. The Public Internet Center has a Spanish speaking site coordinator.
Local Drupal Development Commitement In addition to what the OMF will provide through this grant, we
estimate that a successful implementation will require a minimum of 80
hours of local drupal support (through trained staff, contractors, or
volunteers).
How many hours of professional drupal development support can you commit to securing between Oct 2010 and Oct 2012:
What is the estimated Cost (or value, if volunteer) of this commitment:
Current Capitial Equipment Commitment If your organization already has some or all of the equipment
required to implement the Open Media Project, or the capital budget
necessary to acquire it, that value will be included as part of your
match. If not, grant funds will be used to acquire the equipment you
require.
Current Digital Broadcast Server(s):
Current Dedicated RAID Storage:
Other Current Equipment Value:
If other, please explain:
HOME, Inc. owns video equipment including cameras, software, lights, microphones, tripods to support lab activities. We partner with schools and the Madison Park Public Internet Center which owns fully equipped computer labs. These include the Somerville School Districts, Boston public schools including English High School, Madison Park High School, Young Achivers K-8 Pilot School, and the Timothy Smith Network supported Madison Park Public Internet Center.
Future Capital Equipment Commitment If your organization already has some or all of the equipment
required to implement the Open Media Project, or the capital budget
necessary to acquire it, that value will be included as part of your
match. If not, grant funds will be used to acquire the equipment you
require.
How much Capital Equipment budget could you devote towards the
acquisition of the following equipment:
Other Future Equipment Value:
If other, please explain:
We are currently using cloud computing and cloud servers to meet our internet needs. We would be interested in technology that would allow us to manage content in the cloud and to streamline conversion and back up. We may also want to subscribe to on line conferencing for training and support as well as content delivery to specific constituencies.
Technical and Administrative Support We estimate that a successful implementation of the OMP will require a minimum of 80 hours of technical and administrative support
(through involvement of your ED, bookkeeper, engineer and other staff). Any time contributed will count towards your in-kind match.
How many hours can you commit to securing between Oct 2010 and Oct 2012:
List each staff member, position, number of hours committed, and hourly wage (or equivalent, if salary):
Alex Fleming- Media Lab Coordinator- Learning Drupal and committed to helping with web sites- 40 hours- $ 8.00 per hour- Service Year Stipend
Alan Michel- Executive Director- Staff supervision and program oversight- 80 hours- 10% of salary- $ 5,000 during the course of the project.
Video Content Commitment Partners will be supporting Sustainable Broadband Adoption by
addressing the primary hurdle identified by non-adopters: a perception
that broadband is not relevant to life, especially in low-income and
minority communities.
What is the value of the staff time and resources you are willing to
devote to supporting the production of video content that will address
'broadband relevance' from the perspective of members from
disconnected communities"?
If other, please explain:
HOME, Inc. provides site coordinators at the schools and community sites at a cost of $ 15,000 per site. The staff time is calculated based on 7 site coordinators. The $ 330,000 in equipment is an estimate of 30,000 per site in video equipment and computers, depreciated for 11 sites.
The $ 5,000 other is for ISP and related broadband internet connection.
Broadband Training Program
If you intend to provide training or education, how many people in total will your program(s) reach:
How many hours of training do you expect to provide per person on average for your program(s), through completion of training:
How many Full Time Employee (FTEs) will you employ for broadband and digital literacy training purposes:
Describe the qualifications and training of full time employee instructors of broadband and digital literacy training:
Site coordinators are recent college graduates who have usually been out of college for one to three years and have majored in media and technology. They have background in volunteering and teaching and a demonstrated ability to lead and develop programming with young people and local minority residents. Site coordinators receive a two week intensive training prior to beginning and meet weekly for additional training and development work.
Job Creation
How many indirect jobs will be created from this project:
How many direct jobs will be created from this project:
