Building a Cyber
Bridge to a Better
Future
Our Mission
Originally organized as Gilbert Fine Arts Association, with a broad STEAM education and community development mandate, the organization’s mission has now narrowed to a focus on cyber security training and placements that strengthen communities across the US. We provide mobilized and coordinated resources toward a single goal: establishing a talent pipeline from underrepresented communities, including veterans, to the front lines of our nation’s response to the cyber security crisis that faces our nation and those allied for freedom, peace and security. The Cyber Bridge Opportunity Fund is the signature program of this initiative.
Convening
Capitalizing
Connecting
Our Mandate
The Cyber Bridge Opportunity Fund provides scholarships into cyber security training programs as well as grants toward MSOC facilities at a network of legacy educational institutions.
The structure of our “bridge to opportunity” runs through some of the nation’s most economically challenged communities, with a goal of building a generational impact for families that helps create new business leadership and community transformation.
By the Numbers
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$10.5Tn.
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What We Do
The Cyber Bridge Opportunity Fund is dedicated to helping our cybersecurity bootcamp students achieve a successful and rewarding future. Our team is comprised of leaders in online education and SaaS enterprise technologies.
Teaming with Fusion Cyber and other leading-edge partners in the AI-forward, cyber space, we believe that with the right attitude, hard work, and support, those receiving our scholarships thanks to partnerships with Cisco and other leading brands can thrive in the dynamic and exciting field of cybersecurity. And, we believe that this can enable them to help transform their communities.
Recent Announcements
State of South Carolina to offer 50 full-pay Fusion Cyber student scholarships in 2024 via HBCUs to help build The Cyber Bridge
Rosewood Family of Companies provides funding for veterans scholarships through Cyber Bridge Opportunity Fund
Cisco provides added funding to build The Cyber Bridge with Fusion Cyber training scholarships via partner HBCU and MSI Institutions
In The News
Fusion Cyber Partners CIsco and Student Freedom Initiative Continue Vital Engagement in Higher Ed
February 11, 2023
#BHM Spotlight on James Pryde, Radio Operator for the Tuskegee Airmen and NSA Representative to DoD
National Cyber Director Aims to Tackle Cybersecurity Talent Shortage by Eliminating Degree Prerequisites
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