If you’ve been following our work of creating a vision for the organization and defining strategic goals, you may have wondered what this might mean for our grantmaking criteria. If that sounds familiar, then this blog post is for you! We’ve just posted our new grantmaking goals, along with some priority areas for funding. To … Read More
Since 2019, ARDC has been making grants to support many wonderful projects that align with our mission of advancing amateur radio and digital communications science and technology. Throughout the course of our grantmaking, we’ve faced philosophical and practical questions from both our community and each other: What do we mean by digital communications? At ARDC, … Read More
On Saturday, March 15, 2025, we hosted our latest Community Meeting, where 45 folks were in attendance to learn about our recent work and our path ahead. Executive Director Rosy Schechter KJ7RYV kicked off the meeting by introducing our newest Staff and Board Members, along with our 2025 Advisory Committee members. From there, we reflected … Read More
The 2024 ARDC Annual Report is now available. Highlights from 2024 include:  Launch of the new 44Net Portal Approving 59 grants, totaling about $3.9 million Bob Witte K0NR and Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE joining our Board of Directors Schuyler Erle N0GIS, Adam Lewis KC7GDY, John Burwell KI5QKX, and Adam Zimmel W0ZML joining ARDC’s staff Loss … Read More
2025 is in full swing, which brings us new volunteer teams for our four Advisory Committees: Grants Advisory Committee (GAC) – reviews grant applications Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) – works on 44Net-related projects and policies Grants Evaluation Team (GET) – evaluates and analyzes grant reports Conduct Review Committee (CRC) – helps to evaluate Code of … Read More
