MBI seeks to award grants to qualified Respondents to implement digital equity initiatives in one or more of the six Digital Equity initiative areas described in Section 2.2 of this Solicitation 2025-MBI-10. Program. The Launchpad Program builds on the success of MBI’s Digital Equity Partnerships Program and intends to address gaps in MBI’s current set of digital equity-focused grant making activities.

The Massachusetts TechHubs Program (MA TechHubs) is a place-based economic development initiative intended to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems across Massachusetts. The program will designate regions as TechHubs to recognize their capacity for leadership in innovation-driven economic development and to enhance their visibility as centers of technological progress and opportunity. Through TechHub designations and strategic investments in infrastructure and scaling companies, the program aims to bridge regional disparities in innovation capacity to foster technology development, advance high-growth industries, and drive equitable economic growth.

Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s (“MassTech”) Residential Retrofit Program (the “Program”) will make a transformational capital investment in the infrastructure needed to support delivery of high-speed internet in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Affordable Housing developments. 

The Robotics department at the Innovation Institute, a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative ("Mass Tech Collaborative" or "MassTech"), is issuing this Notice of Funding Opportunity for funding from the Regional Robotics Ecosystem Grant Program (the “NOFO”) to solicit responses from potential ecosystem partners that can contribute to the growth and diversification of the Massachusetts robotics ecosystem.