Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc

ITF’s stated mission is to transform connectivity by providing affordable broadband to under-resourced communities, including nonprofits, schools, and libraries, and to reinvest its surplus into driving social change.

Its three strategic pillars are:

• Multiracial democracy and power building, including expanding the electorate, grassroots organizing, voter mobilization, redistricting, ballot initiatives, and increasing representation of elected leaders.
• Movement infrastructure and innovation, including data and technology infrastructure, research, communications, experimentation, and training and support for movement organizations and operatives.
• Telecom justice, including policy and advocacy for equitable access to affordable, quality broadband.

The 2025 grantees illustrate the range of organizations supported. Georgia Investor Action Fund describes its work as using organizing, messaging, and leadership development to affect policy in Georgia. Public Communicators operates Free Speech TV, a nonprofit digital media network that features underrepresented voices, according to its mission statement. Ballot Initiative Strategy Center says it builds a national progressive strategy for ballot measures. Organize Action describes its work as advancing social welfare, democracy, and human rights. Make North Carolina First says it conducts research and educational activities to promote understanding of ways to improve the state’s common good and social welfare. Change the Game Training aims to create pathways into progressive data work and support practitioners, while Local Progress Policy Action describes itself as a movement of local elected officials advancing a racial and economic justice agenda.