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Posts Tagged ‘digital literacy corps’
Harrison College Award Net Literacy Volunteers $3,000 Scholarships
Harrison College Recognize Net Literacy Volunteers with $3,000 Scholarships
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Net Literacy increases its student volunteers’ life skills, job skills, and provides an opportunity for service to the community in a project based learning program. Harrison College, Net Literacy’s newest partner, is encouraging student success and students to progress their education by granting all Net Literacy volunteers that receive the recommendation from the faculty board member a $3,000 scholarship ($750 per year) to attend Harrison College’s IT program.
According to national statistics, the average high school graduate earns $1.2 million over their lifetime while a college graduate earns $2.1 million over their lifetime. Annually, the average high school graduate earns $30,400 per year while the average college graduate earns $52,200.
Through this scholarship program, Harrison College is recognizing Net Literacy’s student volunteers extraordinary contributions to our communities – and encouraging Net Literacy students to continue their success by preparing for their future with a college degree.
Net Literacy is grateful for this extraordinary partnership with Harrison College. For more information, contact donkent@netliteracy.org or Marvin.Bailey@harrison.edu. Thank you Harrison College!
Net Literacy’s Seven Summer Programs Engage More Than 300 Students
David Johnson (right) teachers new volunteers
Net Literacy’s seven summer programs impacted over 300 students. Student volunteers learned how to build websites; repurposed almost 1000 computers that were sent to schools and dozens of nonprofits; storyboarded, scripted, shot, and edited twenty financial literacy videos, taught Safe Connects Internet safety skills, learned group dynamics and team building skills; constructed business proposals using PowerPoint that included value propositions, P&L charts, and streaming video.
Thanks to our generous donors, that included Lilly Endowment, the Luminia Foundation for Education, Lilly & Company, Bright House Networks, the Techpoint Foundation, the Clowes Fund, Net Literacy student volunteers learned job skills, life skills, and made a difference to their communities.
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- David Johnson (right) teachers new volunteers
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- Hundreds of computers that served schools and dozens of nonprofits
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- Learning computer and Internet skills
June 22nd Washington DC Broadband Adoption Summit a Success!
With nearly 150 attendees and a “dream team” of speakers from the FCC, nonprofits, broadband providers, and other government organizations, the Broadband Adoption Summit was a success and thoughtfully discussed barriers to and catalysts that will enhance broadband adoption. Above, Net Literacy’s Daniel Kent presents a Net Literacy Hero Award to Blare Levin, the FCC’s Executive Director responsible for crafting the National Broadband Plan for Congress. Highlights of the summit, co-sponsored by Net Literacy, the US Internet Industry Association, and Broadband for America, can be viewed by clicking on this link.
The Summit was webcasted by the US Telecom Association and was videotaped by Broadband For America. The five media articles that were written will help increase awareness to digital inclusion and the importance of increasing broadband adoption. Net Literacy and the USIIA will jointly co-author a series of white papers further detailing the issues discussed during this summit.
Speakers included the key architects of the National Broadband Plan, including Blair Levin (FCC Executive Director), Brian David (FCC Director of Broadband Adoption), John Horrigan (FCC Director of Consumer Research), and Karen Archer Perry (Advisor, Adoption and Use National Broadband Plan Team). Trade associations addressing the Summit included USIIA CEO David McClure, US Telecom CEO Walter McCormick, and Fiber to the Home Council CEO Joe Savage. Other speakers represented national companies, including Bright House Networks, Dell, Intel, and Cisco Systems, among others.
US Telecom Association to Webcast “Broadband Adoption Summit”
The US Telecom Association has decided to webcast the Broadband Adoption Summit because of the importance of this conference.
At 9:05 on June 22nd – visit http://www.nextgenweb.org and you can watch the Summit live as it takes place.
The Summit’s agenda is at http://www.netliteracyalliance.org/blog
Net Literacy’s Funders Double Their Financial Support in 2010
While thousands of students have donated over 200,000 hours in service to their communities and increased computer access to over 150,000 individuals, we just could not be doing this without the financial support of more than a dozen corporate and foundation funders.
Since 2007, Intel, whose leadership serves on Net Literacy’s Board of Directors and financial support has helped us scale our programs. Intel has enabled our student volunteers to increase computer access to 10,000s of individuals, increase Internet safety awareness through the production of three Department of Education approved Internet safety videos, and increase financial literacy to middle school, high school, and college students through the IDOE approved Financial Connects portal.
The Lumina Foundation For Education repeated funding of our Computer Connects programs has provided computers to schools impacting thousands of students.
Lilly Endowment has funded Net Literacy programs since 2005, and has supported our Safe Connects, Financial Connects, and Computer Connects programs.
2010 marks the first year that the Eli Lilly Company has supported our Computer Connects program that teaches homeless students and students on Off Campus Instruction life skills and job skills.
Without your support and advocacy, we would be unable to increase digital inclusion. So in behalf of the thousands of Net Literacy student volunteers, thank you!
Respectfully,
Daniel Kent
Student President
Bright House Networks Supports Net Literacy for a Fifth Year
Bright House Networks has agreed to support Net Literacy (www.netliteracy.org) for a fifth year, enabling Net Literacy’s digital literacy corps of student volunteers to offer its five core programs in five counties throughout Indiana. The Net Literacy – Bright House Networks has increased computer access to tens of thousands of non-adopters during their partnership together, and will be providing 36 computers to six Hendricks County nonprofits in January.
For the third year, Bright House will also support Net Literacy’s Internet safety PSA program (www.safeconnects.org) by providing a substantial number of advertising avails in its franchised areas. Over 100,000 individuals have viewed Net Literacy’s Internet safety PSAs, helping to make the Internet a more friendly and comfortable place for everyone. Bright House Networks will also fund the production of five additional PSAs.
For additional information, please contact donkent@netliteracy.org.