New Venture Fund
For The Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Project
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Amount$1,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/13/2021
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
The Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, has grown to 43 institutions, helping to define and develop the PIT ecosystem within academia. In order to support its mission, PIT-UN established the PIT-UN Challenge Fund. Through the creation of courses and educational programming, PIT-UN offers career pathway models for practitioners in training, supports faculty in their efforts to ensure that PIT is recognized and respected as a discipline, and invests $7.8 million in supporting projects that are building a skilled and diverse pipeline of PIT practitioners.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.newventurefund.org
Address
1828 L Street NW, Suite 300 – A, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Tech Talent Project
The Tech Talent Project is a nonpartisan nonprofit project fiscally sponsored by New Venture Fund that addresses the pressing need for tech talent in government to effectively implement nonlegislative policy, provide services, and address emerging technologies like AI. Recent shifts in the digital labor market present an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate this work in the federal government. (Substrategy: Executive Branch)
for Vision First’s Abortion on Our Own Terms project
Abortion On Our Own Terms, a project of Vision First (a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund) is a national campaign that aims to make safe, effective self-managed abortion available to all people without shame, stigma, or legal risk. (Strategy: U.S. Reproductive Equity)
