What? Volunteers to approve $4.7 billion in broadband grants? « Fighting the Next Good Fight

Now there’s a headline that’ll give a grant writer pause – and the rest of the broadband project team terminal heartburn.

NTIA unveiled in Boston yesterday they intend to recruit an army of volunteers to make up the panels that do the first round of the review process. This legion of un-paid but patriotic souls will determine whose grant applications make the cut by meeting the basic requirements according to the NOFA rules...