Specifications include, but are not limited to: • ACP application assistance: In-person ACP application assistance support offered to ACP-eligible households. Note: Remote technical and application assistance support is unallowable. • Digital campaigns: Execution of ACP marketing strategy on various digital and social media channels where ACP-eligible households are likely to engage. This includes but is not limited to social media, mass text messaging, phone banks, etc. • Outreach materials: Development, printing, and distribution of infographics, fact sheets, flyers, newsletters, consumer handouts, and/or literature campaigns. This includes inlanguage translation of outreach materials to reach diverse communities and making outreach materials accessible to individuals with disabilities. • Direct mail: Development, printing, and distribution of direct mail to eligible households. • ACP Provider Service Locator: Provision of information to eligible households on how to locate ACP service providers serving in the areas where the outreach is performed. • Personnel and fringe benefits: Compensation and fringe benefits for personnel whose time was spent exclusively conducting ACP outreach activities and/or in-person ACP application assistance either in a part-time or full-time capacity. Fringe benefit calculation must be done in line with 2 C.F.R. 200 (Uniform Guidance) requirements. • Planning: Costs associated with the planning and execution of ACP in-person and virtual outreach events, workshops, campaigns, and activities to raise ACP awareness. Costs associated with the planning and execution of in-person ACP application assistance events. Light refreshments for in-person ACP outreach events must be included as part of the budget submission and approved by the FCC. • Travel: Travel to- and from planned ACP outreach and/or in-person ACP application assistance events, to include mileage, gas, and related travel incidentals. • Supplies: Information technology hardware or systems such as hotspots, tablets, computers, printers, etc. that will be used exclusively for ACP outreach and ACP application assistance. This cost is capped at two percent of award funds. • Project Management: Costs incurred in direct support of grant administration that are not included in the organization’s indirect cost pool (e.g., preparing and submitting programmatic and financial reports, establishing and/or maintaining inventory, responding to official information requests such as audits, monitoring pass-through recipients). This cost is capped at five percent of award funds. • Facilities Rental: Costs associated with facilities rental for ACP outreach and/or inperson ACP application assistance events.
