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STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS

OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY

700 GOVERNORS DRIVE

PIERRE, SD 57501

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) Beaumont Foundation of America

Community Grant - Wireless Laptop Lab

DEPARTMENT CONTACT: Tammy Bauck

Phone: 605/773-6118 or

Email: [email protected]

Mail or deliver the completed applications to: Dept. of Education & Cultural Affairs

Beaumont Foundation Community Applications Office of Technology 700 Governors Drive

Pierre, SD 57501

PROSOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 5:00PM CST

December 13, 2002


Request for Proposals (RFP) for: Beaumont Foundation Wireless Laptop Lab

Eligibility All proposals must be submitted by a 501(c)3 organization or government agency, serving citizens at or below the poverty level as defined by u.s. census bureau thresholds—http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/02poverty.htm. Applicants must have committed leadership and capable staff. Goals: • Assist underserved individuals in bridging the digital divide by ensuring they have access to technology

resources. • Provide technology to community-based organizations and government agencies with a basic technology

infrastructure and with dedicated, willing staff and committed, strong leadership. • Encourage programs that build capacity across an entire community involving a broad range of stakeholders

including children, their parents, and other adults. • Focus on existing programs that use innovative practices to integrate technology effectively into learning

environments. • Promote collaboration with surrounding communities and schools that increases meaningful access to

technology. Participation: The following will be required of all grant recipients: Requirements • Awardees will submit three (3) brief reports (planning, mid-term, and final) throughout the life of project to the Beaumont Foundation of America (BFA). • Awardees will sign a statement of agreement. • Awarded grants may be featured on the BFA web site. • Some awardees will be requested to participate in BFA’s annual conference (for a maximum of two days) with travel and lodging expenses paid for by BFA. • Some highly successful and innovative projects may receive additional recognition at national education conference and foundation symposiums. If asked to present, all travel and lodging expenses will be paid by BFA. Evaluation • Project proposals must include an evaluation plan that gathers information, both anecdotal and scientific, on the

effectiveness of technology programs for historically underserved populations. In the final project report, a complete evaluation plan must be included.

• Awardees may be required to participate in project evaluation under direction of an independent third-party evaluator. Awardees’ time requirement for project evaluation will be minimal.

Award Amounts: It is anticipated the South Dakota Department of Education and Cultural Affairs will award 2 Toshiba mobile, wireless labs of 15 laptop computers each. Note: The award is limited strictly to the equipment as listed. (No substitutions will be allowed.) No financial resources will be associated with equipment awards. Recipients will be expected to show their commitment to the project through in-kind contributions of all other necessary resources for the successful implementation of their projects.


Lab Equipment to Be Awarded: Each lab award will consist of:

15 PS240U-02S2X7 Satellite 2400-S251

1 LAPTG15E-GM Bretford Mobile Cart -18 unit

1 C7044A#ABA HP LaserJet 1200Printer

1 SYU3776U001 SG-20 Appliance servers

1 8484415560 Agere ORiNOCO™11Mbps PC Card 128bit-gold

1 7500A002 Canon D1250U2F CanoScan Flatbed Scanner

1 848072633-00 Agere ORiNOCO Range Extender Antenna

15 ABS-CTMl4 4-Year Absolute CompuTrace Plus

15 SWC-PEGC4V 3-year SystemGuard w/Warranty Extension

1 TDP-S3-US Toshiba TDP-S3 Digital Projector

1 F2A046-06-GLD Belkin Gold IEEE 1284 Parallel Orinter Cable A-B 6'

15 Tosh4 Laptop Carrying Case

Part numbers have been included so that equipment descriptions may be viewed online at: http://www.shoptoshiba.com. Response Requirements and Dates of Submission: To be considered for participation, one original and two copies of the RFP Form (attached) must be completed and submitted, and must include the requested supporting documentation. Proposals must be postmarked by December 13, 2002 or hand delivered to our office by 5:00 PM (CST) on the stated deadline. DECA is not responsible for transmittal time or irregularities in delivery on the part of the US Postal Service or other courier services. Faxed or emailed proposals will not be accepted.

Mail or deliver the completed Beaumont Foundation applications to:

S.D. Department of Education & Cultural Affairs Office of Technology – Beaumont Proposals

700 Governors Drive Pierre, SD 57501

Rejection of Submissions: DECA reserves the right to reject any and all submissions received as a result of this application process or to negotiate separately with the individual respondents.

If you have additional questions regarding this application, please contact Tammy Bauck at 605-773-6118 or [email protected].


Beaumont Grant Application

Organization Information Organization Name DIAL Learning Communites Person Submitting Request

Tracy Vik

Position/Title at Organization

ILC Assistant Project Director

Address 612 S Main Street PO Box 228

City, State, Zip Platte, SD 57369 E-mail Phone 605-337-2636 Fax Web Address www.sddial.org Is organization affiliated with a regional or national organization?

no

IRS Classification ?? IRS Section 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt #

??

(Please attach a copy of IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit status letter)

??

Executive Director’s Name

Doreen Gosmire Phone 605-995-8088

Executive Director’s E-mail

[email protected] Fax 605-995-8090

Organization’s Board of Directors (List current Board of Directors with business addresses and occupations.) Darold Rounds, Board President, Superintendent, Wessington Springs School District PO Box 449, Wessington Springs, SD 57382 Vernal Andersen, Superintendent, Wagner School District PO Box 310, Wagner, SD 57380 Richard Bordeaux, Superintendent, Todd County School District PO Box 87, Mission, SD 57555 Jack Broome, Superintendent, Burke School District PO Box 382, Burke, SD 57523 Vern DeGeest, Superintendent, Corsica School District PO Box 299 Corsica, SD 57328


Berle Johnson, Superintendent, White Lake School District PO Box 246, White Lake, SD 57383 Don Quimby, Superintendent, Parkston School District 102C S Chapman, Parkston, SD 57366 Organization Description (One paragraph that offers insight into your organization, its mission and overall effectiveness.) DIAL is an acronym defining the Dakota Interactive Academic Link. DIAL began in the early 1990s to meet a series of significant challenges facing the education of its youth; geographic isolation’ limited curriculum; shortage of certified teachers with advanced degrees; and declining funding for K-12 schools. These challenges are compounded by the need to improve adult literacy and computer skills; improve low levels of educational achievement; retain youth with South Dakota upon graduation; and alleviate considerable socioeconomic factors affecting the disadvantaged - of which there are many. Organization History (One paragraph with your organization’s history and course of work.)

The consortium is comprised of 33 school systems, over 100 individual schools, serving 16,000 students, 1,300 teachers, and over 65% of American Indian youth within South Dakota, and covering one-third of the State’s land mass and 17 % of its population. There are currently eighty national partners from business and commerce, education and research, and government and service organizations, directly supporting DIAL’s design and delivery of distance learning curricula.

Program Title Initiative for Community Education (ICE) Program Staff (List staff and their qualifications.) Dr, Doreen Gosmire, Director BS-Speech Communication, Family and Consumer Science Educaton, Speech Education MS-Educational Administration, EdD-Educational Administration Ted Hamilton, Assistant Project Director BA-History, MA-History , MS-Library Science Currently enrolled in PhD program at UNL John Heemstra, Assistant Project Director BS - Fisheries & Wildlife Science, MEd - Education Administration Tracy Vik, Assistant Project Director BS- Elementary and Special Educaiton, MEd- Technology in Education Brian O’Connor, Assistant Project Director BA-Elementary and Special Education Currently enrolled in MA program at DSU Roxane Leber, Project Coordiantor Ron Bergman, Project Coordinator BA - History (Minor: Indian Studies) Currently enrolled in MA at USD Sara Fridley, Project Coordinator BA-History from SDSU, MEd- Curriculum & Instruction Alisha Nachtigal, ILC Instructional Assistant AAS - Business Administration Program Description (There is four paragraphs that clearly describe your program, its methodology and timeframe. Define objectives, audience and how you will reach them.


In our consortium there is a extreme need to improve adult literacy and computer skills; improve low levels of educational achievement; retain youth in South Dakota upon graduation; and alleviate considerable socioeconomic factors affecting the disadvantaged. We Program Location(s) (Include primary contact, phone number, physical and e-mail addresses.) Mid-Central Educational Cooperative building, 612 S Main St, Platte, SD 57369 605-337-2636 [email protected] Description of the community your organization will impact (One to two paragraphs that briefly relate your community’s current situation with evidence of need, preferably with credible data.)

With this grant we hope to reach several of the community members that we serve in the DIAL Consortium. These communities include Armour, Artesian-Letcher, Burke, Cheyenne River, Colome, Corsica, Ethan, Gregory, Kimball, Lower Brule, Mitchell, Mitchell Christian, Mount Vernon, Parkston, Plankinton, Platte, Stickney, Tiospa Zina, Todd County, Tripp-Delmont, Wagner, Wessington, Wessington Springs, White Lake, and Woonsocket. In the Spring of 2001, we surveyed community members to find out what their experience with technology was, if they were interested in technology training, and if so, in what format would they like the training. We conducted these surveys in a variety of ways. We used focus groups in some communities, hired high school students to conduct the surveys in other communities, as well as used members of our evaluation team to call upon community members in person. Our results show that while many people have access to technology, they do not feel comfortable with their skills to use the technology. When asked if they would be interested in technology training, there was an over-whelming positive response. Requests for training included Internet, email, MS Office products, MS Publisher, Access, FrontPage, to name a few. Is this a collaborative effort? If yes, what agencies/businesses are involved? We will be working with the other grant projects in DIAL such as the Interactive Learning Campus (ILC) and LOFTI which have goals for community awareness of distance technologies and community development, as well as the community development boards in the towns. We have also partnered with the University of Sioux Falls and Augustana College to provide distance workshops for entrepreneurs in rural communities across our consortium as well as other parts of the state. We feel that there is a need for small business training in rural South Dakota because our state’s employees earn some of the lowest wages in the nation. Poverty levels are higher in South Dakota’s rural counties than in the state’s cities with one in three households making less than $15,000 a year in counties dominated by agriculture. We will deliver these ten entrepreneurial courses to 50 different communities over the course of the next year and a half. These courses will give people some great strategies and frameworks to build a business, but many of the these people interested lack technology skills. We would like to use our wireless mobile lab to provide training sessions on Microsoft Office and Publisher, Internet Exploration, Web Page Design and Maintenance, as well as any other topics requested by the community members. Through the ILC project, funds have been dedicated to community awareness of distance technologies as well as community technology training. We will sponsor Community Technology Training Events in each district. These events will be taught by one teacher and two student assistants (to be paid by ILC grant funds) and will be taught to community members at no charge. Steering Committee members have surveyed community members to find out what kinds of training they would like and in what format. This data is being used to plan the events in each community.


Does a similar program exist in the area? If yes, please describe. No. Breakdown of Clients Served Estimated number of people to be served

Age range of people served Income level of people served

Program Goals and Objectives

• Promote collaboration among communities in consortium by provide access to technology • Promote community development by offering technology training to increase meaningful use of

the technology • Promote community economic development by supporting entrepreneurial classes in communities • Support Community Technology Training Events and Distance Workshops for Entrepreneurs in

various communities Anticipated Outcomes

• Participants will be exposed to a variety of entreprenuial skills • Participants will be offered training in a variety of technology areas • Participants will have increased access to technology

Program Evaluation (Two to three paragraphs that give a clear, concise description of your evaluation plan. Your plan should be simple, focused and appropriate to specific program goals. Include specific evaluation questions about program implementation and outcomes, specific indicators and measures to evaluate success, specific data collection methods, the timeline for evaluating data collection. Describe how you will use evaluation findings to improve your program.) Program Timeline Spring 2003-Spring 2005 Sustainability Strategy Organization’s Financial Information

Organization’s Fiscal Year

Start Date: June 1 End Date:

May 31

Organization’s overall operating budget for


current fiscal year

Organization’s overall operating budget for year in which funding is requested

Percentage of annual budget used for administration

Percentage of funding from government sources

Percentage of funding from private/corporate giving

Program Budget Information Program Budget (provided by applicant as in-kind match): Expense Description Amount $ $ $ $ $

Total program cost $

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