Online in the Heart of Texas
Organization:
InterConnection
Market:
Texas
Texas is a big state. It has a lot of blue sky, a lot of long roads and a lot of big storms. Some storms involve thunder and lightning or [...]
Putting Chicago’s Youth on the Right Path
Organization:
Youth Guidance
Market:
Chicago, IL
Youth Guidance is based in Chicago and has deep roots in the community. Started in 1924 as a more traditional social service agency, it has been expanding for almost a [...]
Mobile Hotspots Aid in Florida’s Disaster Relief Before, During and After Irma
Organization:
Sweetwater Organic Community Farm, Hope Children's Home, FICS and FACE
Market:
Florida
Nonprofit organizations are used to helping communities in need. It is what they do best. In times of disaster, however, that need evolves and expands, as was the case in [...]
Bridging the Digital Divide for Immigrant Communities
Organization:
A Plus Kids Organization
Market:
Minneapolis, MN
Mobile Citizen Enables A Plus Kids to Make a Big Impact in Minneapolis’s African Immigrant Community A Plus Kids Organization is quite small, but for African immigrants living in Phillips, [...]
Workforce Development
Organization:
Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center (ACS3)
Market:
Cleveland, OH
ASC3 Launches Services Call Center Providing Workforce Development Opportunities for Digital Literacy Program Participants Broadband has become an indispensable driver of economic growth and workforce development, creating opportunities for Americans [...]
Community Organizing and Advocacy
Organization:
North Carolina Fair Share CDC
Market:
Raleigh NC
North Carolina (NC) Fair Share CDC is a statewide, multi-issue membership, advocacy and leadership development organization. They combine leadership identification and cultivation, community organizing and interdependent community development to address [...]
Staff and Student Mobility
Organization:
Caring Connections for Seniors
Market:
Chicago, IL
“Caring Connections for Seniors has a ‘friendly visitor’ program for matching volunteers with seniors who are isolated or homebound and need assistance. When our seniors expressed that they lacked the [...]
Saving Money
Organization:
Aspiritech
Market:
Chicago, IL
“Aspiritech is a QA/software testing company that trains and employs adults with high-functioning autism. As an nonprofit IT provider, having affordable, reliable wireless Internet is essential. Being connected means we [...]
Staff Mobility
Organization:
Feeding America
Market:
Chicago, IL
Feeding America’s mission is to feed the hungry through a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks serving all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Through [...]
Staff Mobility, Capital Budget Relief
Organization:
Anti-Cruelty Society
Market:
Chicago, IL
The Anti-Cruelty Society, Chicago’s largest and oldest, open-admission humane society, received a grant from Humana Chicago Benefits, enabling them to upgrade their animal intake and tracking process. Great news if [...]
Affordable (and Healthy) Telecommuting
Organization:
Ronald McDonald House
Market:
Las Vegas, NV
Believing that every child deserves a safe and supportive place to grow, Ronald McDonald House Charities® (RMHC®) of Greater Las Vegas creates and supports programs that directly improve the health, [...]
Digital Inclusion
Organization:
Philadelphia FIGHT
Market:
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia FIGHT, like many nonprofits, sees the provision of consumer education as a key component of the social services they deliver in the community. So what happens when nearly half [...]
Community Outreach
Organization:
Community Counseling Centers of Chicago
Market:
Chicago, IL
The Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4) is a community based mental health provider helping clients in crisis or simply needing assistance navigating in the community. More than 20 licensed [...]
Bridging the Digital Divide
Organization:
PCs for People
Market:
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
PCs for People creates new opportunities by providing personal computers and education to people who have limited experience with technology due to social, physical and/or economic circumstances. Since the organization’s [...]
Strengthening Communities
Organization:
Urban Affairs Coalition
Market:
Philadelphia, PA
The Urban Affairs Coalition (UAC) strengthens communities by uniting government, business, neighborhoods and individual initiatives. One example of the powerful impacts of such collaboration is KEYSPOT, a citywide initiative to [...]
Transforming Communities
Organization:
OneCommunity
Market:
United States
OneCommunity’s Connect Your Community program is transforming communities through technology. And they are on a mission to expand high-speed broadband access and adoption in order to do so. They know [...]
Virtual Office, Mobile Programs
Organization:
Quest for Tech
Market:
Philadelphia, PA
Quest for Tech had an office and a classroom in downtown Philadelphia but gave it up when they realized more fundraising dollars could be directed to programs by reinventing the [...]
Powerful Fundraising Tool
Organization:
Heart of Hope
Market:
Portland, OR
When Heart of Hope Ministries International needed mobile Internet capabilities to boost marketing and fundraising activities, they came to Mobile Citizen. Mobile broadband made Skype, an application allowing for phone [...]
Business Continuity, Maximizing Digital Communications
Organization:
Healthy Schools Campaign
Market:
Chicago, IL
The Healthy Schools Campaign (HSC) knows that healthy children make better learners. That is why they advocate for policies and programs that allow students, faculty and staff to learn and [...]
Staff and Student Mobility
Organization:
University of Illinois-Chicago College of Education
Market:
Chicago, IL
“Nearly all of the doctoral students in our urban education leadership program work full-time; and their work tends to be mobile. Reliable Internet access means they can stay connected to [...]
Mission-critical Tools for Teachers and Administrators
Organization:
Philadelphia Mennonite High School
Market:
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Mennonite High School (PMHS), a high school dedicated to preparing urban youth for leadership, service and peacemaking, took a very basic Internet access need and turned it into a [...]