Twin Cities

January 25, 2018 Voqal recently accepted eight tech and social entrepreneurs focused on making a difference into the 2018 cohort of its Voqal Fellowship program, which provides the resources and mentoring needed to bring early-stage ideas focused on progressive and social change to life. This is the largest cohort of the Fellowship since its inception

January 24, 2018 As part of our ongoing series featuring stories from our FY 2017 annual report, this week we take a look at another of Voqal’s initiatives aimed at providing EBS Spectrum holders an ally, Independent Spectrum. In the heart of Florida’s Gulf Coast, not too far from Tampa Bay, you’ll find a lush,

January 18, 2018  Voqal recently released its 2017 annual report and is starting the new year off by featuring some of the stories from the report on our blog. This week we continue to take a look back at FY 2017 with a spotlight of one of Voqal’s initiatives focused on creating equity through access,

January 12, 2018 Voqal recently released its 2017 annual report and is starting the new year off by featuring some of the stories from the report on our blog. We start this look back at FY 2017 with a spotlight on one of Voqal’s more recent initiatives, the Education Venture Fund. PAIRIN CEO and co-founder,

January 4, 2018 2017 had its share of ups and downs. The country saw a new political ideology rise to power that threatens many underrepresented and underserved populations. Attempts at imposing discriminatory immigration policy and stripping valuable protections for immigrants already residing in the United States have dominated the public discourse over the last year.

December 19, 2017 Mobile Citizen, a Voqal initiative,  is joining nine other public interest organizations focused on high-quality broadband for all Americans to lead a #MobileOnly Challenge in January and ask Americans to participate. The Challenge will call attention to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) proposal to lower broadband standards and consider an internet connection

December 8, 2017 Yesterday afternoon, Voqal joined thousands of people all over the country to protest the FCC’s plan to eliminate net neutrality on December 14. The protests took place at Verizon Wireless retail stores and Congressional offices across the country to demand that lawmakers take action to stop the FCC from destroying the internet.

November 29, 2017 At Youth Guidance, at school, in the community and in the working world, access to technology is as necessary as access to pencils and paper. Students need the internet to search for jobs, network, communicate, track current events and read the news, and to do research. GED programs, tutoring and other online

November 15, 2017 Nonprofit organizations are used to helping communities in need. It is what they do best. In times of disaster, however, that need evolves and expands, as was the case in Florida when Hurricane Irma blew across the entire state leaving more than 1.9 million customers without power. For many, that also meant

November 9, 2017 Voqal was the primary funder of an innovative research project led by Harvard University Professor Gary King and published today in Science magazine that found small media outlets can have a dramatic impact on the national conversation about major public policy issues such as employment, immigration and the environment. Specifically, the study