Community Anchor Program (CAP)

CAP Helps You Connect

CAP is a community-driven program focused on expanding access to advanced broadband services and putting them to work to increase educational opportunities for everyone.

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CAP works with 46 state and regional research and education (R&E) network partners to develop, adopt, and deploy advanced network-enabled applications and services across community anchor institutions nationwide.

Over 80,000 community anchor institutions— including K-12 schools, public libraries, colleges and universities, health care facilities, museums, and other cultural and historic organizations— connect to Internet2 via a state or regional R&E network.

CAP Projects and Resources

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Presidential Primary Sources Project

Learn about presidents directly from National Park Service rangers and presidential historians in this live, interactive web series.

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K-12 Resources

As educators, you want to give your students the world. With the Community Anchor Program’s K-12 resources, you can do just that.

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Library Resources

CAP’s library resources include the Toward Gigabit Libraries toolkit to help you understand your library’s IT and broadband needs and other opportunities to work with CAP on grant projects.

Meet CAP leadership

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