Primarily funded through county, local, and federal grant programs, the 501(c)(3) organization's CEO, Brian Mefford, aims to make broadband connections of at least 768 kbit/s accessible to "100 percent of Kentucky homes.
One such project, ConnectGRADD,[4] focuses upon the largely rural Green River Area Development District, consisting of Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McLean, Ohio, Union and Webster counties.
Their fiscal courts intend to use considerable sums of coal severance and slightly smaller new debts[5] to ensure their residents have access to WISP service that meets the minimum 768 kbit/s called for by the statewide program.
[6] The two relatively populous areas, Owensboro and Henderson, both have local municipally-owned wireless ISPs that largely met the goals of ConnectKentucky within and near their city limits prior to its conception.
These areas are largely underserved prior the ConnectGRADD rollout: Only 20% of households in Webster County, for instance, were subscribed to broadband Internet services, compared with a 32% state average in 2005.