Strategic funding ULC recently secured a major $1M Carnegie Corporation grant to establish Civic Labs for Youth, signaling growing demand for scalable, funded collaborative initiatives and potential for partner-backed programs and sponsorship opportunities with libraries.

Civic Makers expansion The Civic Makers Lab for Adults and Youth initiatives are active grant programs across multiple cities, presenting a clear avenue to offer complementary services, training, and technology partnerships to expand impact and funding eligibility.

Digital equity focus ULC concentrates on education, digital equity, workforce development and race and social equity, creating opportunities to propose tech-enabled literacy, upskilling, and inclusive procurement solutions to urban libraries seeking outcome-driven results.

Grant-driven partnerships Recent collaborations with cities and library systems (Boise, Pasadena, Indy, CALS) indicate a readiness to co-create programs; sales opportunities exist in delivering program management, evaluation, and grant-funded technology deployments.

Network scale Representing over 170 urban libraries across the U.S. and Canada offers a broad channel for pilots and rollouts, enabling ecosystem partnerships, multi-site deployments, and large-scale contracts with centralized impact metrics.