Chicago Public Schools high school students completed more than 50,000 quests during inaugural three-month challenge… Chance the Rapper and Ludacris joined Internet Essentials, city and school leaders at Alcott College Prep on Tuesday afternoon to kick off the popular Get Schooled, Get Connected Spring Challenge, which is designed to help thousands of Chicago Public Schools […]
Boys & Girls Club of America and Comcast NBCUniversal Announce Major Partnership and the Launch of the My.Future Technology Initiative in Chicago
Partnership is Comcast NBCUniversal’s largest with the nonprofit; My.Future provides hands-on technology training to equip youth at the Little Village Boys & Girls Club in Chicago with skills needed to succeed in digital age Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) and Comcast NBCUniversal announced today that they have entered into a five-year national partnership valued […]
Enrollment in Comcast’s Internet Essentials Program in Chicago Metro Area Reaches 33,000 Households – More than any other Metro Area
Comcast announces it will extend Internet Essentials program enrollment; Chicago, Cicero-Berwyn receive “Gold Medal Recognition” from Comcast for numbers of families enrolled in program; Two new “Internet Essentials Learning Zones” to bring community partners together to address digital divide… Comcast announced today in Chicago that enrollment in its Internet Essentials program in the Chicago Metropolitan […]
Comcast Announces Internet Essentials Connects more than 1 Million Americans to the Internet at Home
Comcast’s David L. Cohen Testifies on Broadband Adoption to the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Comcast’s Broadband Adoption Program is Designed to Help Close the Digital Divide… Today, Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen announced that Comcast’s Internet Essentials program – the […]
What Internet Essentials Means to Chicago Families, by Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Click the picture to the left to read Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s blog post, “What Internet Essentials Means to Chicago Families” on Comcast Voices. The mayor talks about how Comcast’s Internet Essentials program helps close the digital divide by providing eligible low-income families with Internet access at home for $9.95 per month. More than 14,000 Chicago families […]