{"id":36204,"date":"2026-01-27T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/?p=36204"},"modified":"2026-01-27T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:11:10","slug":"fy2026-e-rate-form-471-trainings-scheduled-register-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/?p=36204","title":{"rendered":"FY2026 E-Rate Form 471 Trainings Scheduled \u2013 Register Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>January 27, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven\u2019t yet submitted your Form 471, or need a refresher, please join me for Form 471 Training.\u00a0 I have scheduled three training sessions, with the first focusing on our smaller applicants that are using month-to-month (M-T-M) service (such as a library requesting a hotspot for their bookmobile) or the\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CABIO-Bidding-Exemption-Guide-FY-2026.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CABIO bidding exemption<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The other two trainings will focus on all other application types and will begin with walking through how to create a Contract Record in EPC.\u00a0 There will be plenty of time available to ask questions.\u00a0 Registration is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t forget, you must request your Category 1 E-Rate funding every year, even if you\u2019re in a multi-year contract for a service.&nbsp; If your procurements are complete and contracts signed, or if you are in a multi-year contract from a previous year, please don\u2019t wait to file your Form 471s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Category 1 &#8211;\u00a0M-T-M\/CABIO Form 471 Trainin<\/strong>g<br>Monday, February 9<br>1:00 &#8211; 1:45<br><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/1NMdKdFmQJWQu6F6eYw8Dg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click to Register<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Category 1 Form 471 Training<\/strong><br>Tuesday, February 10<br>1:00 &#8211; 2:30<br><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/k3Bpy94WQ_CeL9ddiVslnw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click to Register<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Category 2 Form 471 Training<\/strong><br>Thursday, February 12<br>10:00 \u2013 11:30<br><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/dhjoIuM8SW2K4ZvHc1Y1UA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click to Register<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Training guides will be coming soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope to see you then!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lorrie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Lorrie Germann<\/em><\/strong><br>Pennsylvania E-Rate Coordinator<br>717-576-2737 &#8211; o<br>lgermann@e-ratepa.org<br>www.e-ratepa.org<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=eratepenn\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 27, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listserve_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}