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Technical.Ly Has Been Awarded a $250K Longwood Foundation Catalyst Grant
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If you live in Delaware, you'll soon be able to find out what's going on with the state's tech scene in the form of a daily newsletter.
That's thanks to a two-year, $250,000 grant from the Longwood Foundation, the News Journal reports.
The technical news site Technical.ly will use the money to expand its journalism and community engagement, as well as to make Delaware's tech economy more accessible and competitive.
It's the largest grant of its kind for the site, which isn't a nonprofit and is, of course, a news organization.
"For most of our organizational history, we did not pursue philanthropic support, and this is our biggest organizational initiative after a strategic vision we produced during the pandemic," the site's editor-in-chief writes in a blog post.
The site, which has been publishing in Delaware for a decade, decided to change its approach after the Covid-19 virus wiped out much of the state's tech scene.
"It was effective but a grind, and as tech and startup events became more commonplace, we were undifferentiated," the editor-in-chief writes.
"Even as in-person events returned, I knew Technical.ly would not return to
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