Improving the Lives of Low-Income Families
Three not-for-profit (NFP) organizations based in Indianapolis — Partners in Housing, the John H. Boner Community Center, and the Englewood Community Development Corporation — provided Internet access to their low-income residents by teaming with IT consulting firm Trajectory, Cisco Managed Service Partner Catalyst Technology Group and Cisco. This is their story.
Indianapolis Rental Assistance Program Launched
In response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Indianapolis, Indiana leaders from non-profit, for-profit and government convened to launch IndyRent, a rental assistance platform to help Indy residents remain in their homes even if financially impacted by the pandemic.
What People Are Saying About the Work We Are Doing
“Since July 2020, IndyRent has distributed nearly $46 million in federal COVID-19 relief funding as rent payments to landlords for nearly 21,000 households.”“We’ve leveraged technology to do things at scale,” says James Taylor, chief executive officer of the John H. Boner Community Center. “We designed the websites to be mobile enabled because 78% of the people who responded are using smartphones.”Read More“One of the key pieces of the successful revitalization efforts on the Near Eastside has been finding exciting new uses for old buildings and spaces.”“To get the funding needed to provide residents with Internet access, the NFPs worked with Matt Belsaas, CEO of Trajectory, and his team. Trajectory convinced the grant providers that Internet access is — “like oxygen”— essential to residents.Read More