Comcast last week continued its Illinois Digital Equity Tour, a week-long tour across Illinois to promote digital equity, with a stop at the Decatur Family YMCA. The timing of the tour is in line with the 10th anniversary of Internet Essentials, Comcast’s low-cost broadband adoption program for low-income households with grammar, high school and college students; seniors; veterans; people with disabilities; and public housing residents enrolled in public assistance programs, ranging from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Since its launch in 2011, Internet Essentials has connected more than 10 million Americans to the Internet at home – more than 1.3 million in Illinois alone.
Over the course of the tour, Comcast delivered a total of 500 laptops and $50,000 in funds to community-based organizations in five Central and Northern Illinois locations to support digital skills training and other activities designed to close the digital divide. The tour began Thursday, October 7, with stops in Chicago’s south suburbs, then Rockford and stops at the Developmental Services Center in Champaign and the Decatur Family YMCA in Decatur, earlier last week, and finally with a stop on Thursday at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Illinois in Springfield.
At the Decatur Family YMCA, Comcast announced the donation of 100 laptops and $10,000 in support for the YMCA’s STEM programs.
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