Posts in 'Digital Equity'

The 2021 Digital Equity Fund grant will support the investment in digital community organizing to advocate, host training, and help hundreds of low to moderate-income and limited digital proficient African/Caribbean immigrant families obtain affordable and stable internet services and digital skills.

The 2021 Digital Equity Fund grant will support the creation of more accessible musical recording labs where youth who have been impacted by violence or incarceration can learn audio production while developing career skills and expressing their emotions in supportive spaces.

To improve digital literacy and help narrow the digital divide among immigrants in Philadelphia who are English Language Learners, by combining English language instruction with digital literacy and workforce development.

To provide internet access, digital devices, and technology teaching and support services to low-income South Philadelphia residents who are impacted by environmental racism.

To provide access to cellphone and consecutive online access to housing insecure sex workers in Philadelphia, which will expand access to social services, medical care, support networks, above ground jobs, and safer and more autonomous ways of accessing work in the underground economy.

In support of the “Connections!” (“¡Conéctate!”) intergenerational digital literacy program, focused on connecting immigrant families and individuals with limited English proficiency with the necessary digital tools to access essential services, employment opportunities, and other community resources.

To provide free basic and focused digital literacy for impact on the neediest seniors, such as the homeless, deep poverty communities, differently abled homebound, and LGBTQIA+ elderly.

To support a new community computer lab that will expand digital access and equity in Kensington.

To prepare underrepresented young people to succeed as tech and innovation leaders through project-based learning and mentorship, resources, and support networks in the tech and innovation space.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a partnership between Philadelphia Young Playwrights and the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center to facilitate a three-pronged digital storytelling program which combines monologues and photos of personal narratives of Philly youth, detailing their COVID-19 and civil unrest experiences, to create digital short stories.