Twin Cities

October 29, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center in Cleveland. Only 8 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Asbury Senior Computer Community Center (ASC³) is a nonprofit inter-generational learning center bridging the digital divide in Cleveland’s inner-city communities. The center provides tech-based education, training and resources to adults with

October 28, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Denver Public Schools. Only 9 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. The faculty and staff in the Denver Public Schools system are grateful for a robust and reliable wireless Internet network. Traveling outside of the network, however, can present challenges. That’s where Mobile Citizen’s modems bridge the divide. When

October 27, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features PCs for People, a Twin Cities-based nonprofit organization committed to digital inclusion. Only 10 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Since its formation in 1998, PCs for People has distributed over 40,000 computers to low-income families. In 2012, the organization established a partnership with Mobile Citizen and

October 26, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Herron High School, a public charter school in Indianapolis. Only 11 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Katie Dorsey is an academic advisor at Herron High School, where almost 10 percent of the school’s 700+ students were named AP scholars last year.  Most of the honor students have home Internet access; however,

October 26, 2015 Mobile Citizen and Mobile Beacon filed an emergency request with a Massachusetts state court on Friday asking a judge to stop Sprint from its plan to shut off broadband access to more than 300,000 vulnerable Americans on November 6. A hearing on the preliminary injunction has been scheduled for noon on Tuesday

October 23, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Irvington Community Schools, a K-12 charter school system in Indianapolis. Only 14 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. While exploring a 1:1 computer program, Irvington Community Schools’ Technology Director Chris Ashmore knew he had to bridge the digital divide amongst the school system’s 900 families. What he didn’t anticipate, however, was

October 22, 2015 Today’s story features the University of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota is not a customer of Mobile Citizen, but like Mobile Citizen’s nonprofit owners, is an EBS licensee. Only 15 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Since 2011, the University of Minnesota has relied on a CLEAR unit to provide Internet access

October 21, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Drexel University in Philadelphia. Only 16 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. More than 35 percent of Philadelphia’s residents lack Internet access due to cost. Along with 50+ social service and community organizations, Drexel University participates in Keyspot, a program that lends mobile computer labs to non-profit, civic,

Oct. 20, 2015 A group of more than 40 organizations — everyone from Habitat for Humanity to Color of Change — has just sent a letter to Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure asking that he save broadband access for these 300,000 Americans. The letter also was sent to the FCC commissioners, the White House and the

Oct. 19, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features STRIVE Preparatory Schools in Denver. Only 21 days left to stop the shutdown. Sign our petition today. STRIVE Preparatory Schools is a Denver based community of free, open enrollment, public charter schools committed to providing every student with an excellent, high quality, college preparatory education. To make