Voqal Chicago

Voqal Chicago participates in the education opportunity project (eop). The eop aims to measurably reduce educational opportunity gaps by providing capital and strategic advice to entrepreneurs and organizations working to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged populations. Voqal nonprofits collectively spent $505,200 in the fiscal year 2023 program with Voqal Chicago contributing $393,885 to the program.

On behalf of Voqal Chicago, mobile citizen places lte wireless broadband accounts with schools and nonprofits both locally in Colorado and nationwide. The estimated number of lte wireless broadband accounts is based on Voqal Chicago's ownership percentage of all active accounts at fiscal year-end. The estimated market value, based on $50/month, of the donation of free and subsidized accounts is more than $8.2 million. Voqal Chicago provides schools in the Chicago metro area with free and subsidized high-speed wireless broadband internet accounts. The schools are both public and private, servicing grades k-12. We estimate that the fair market value of these free and subsidized accounts is over $156,000 annually.

Voqal Chicago is proud to be part of the Voqal fellowship. The Voqal fellowship is an investment in people as individuals and budding entrepreneurs; a talent and startup accelerator aimed at giving those often overlooked by traditional funders a chance to enact their visions. In fiscal year 2023, eight individuals were selected as fellows after a rigorous search process. Their projects focused on issues ranging from civic media to online tools. Voqal nonprofits collectively spent $508,500 in the fiscal year 2023 program with Voqal Chicago contributing $365,867 to the program.voqal Chicago maintains a separate grantmaking program. In fiscal year 2023, Voqal Chicago made grants totaling $1,748,142 to 41 grantees. Expenses total $1,867,641.