SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Comcast volition denote a $100,000 assistance to the Western Massachusetts Alliance for Digital Equity (“Alliance”) to assistance adjacent the integer disagreement connected Friday.
According to a quality merchandise sent to 22News from Comcast, the assistance is to assistance make integer equity crossed the Pioneer Valley. The Alliance volition assistance usage the assistance to motorboat an Affordable Connectivity Program Assistance Initiative, wherever 5 antithetic organizations successful Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties, and volition behaviour outreach and assistance with enrollment successful the national government’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP).
The ACP provides eligible low-income households with a recognition of up to $30 a period towards their net and/or mobile service. The assistance announcement is portion of Project UP, Comcast’s 10-year, $1 cardinal committedness to assistance beforehand integer equity and scope millions of radical by providing the skills, opportunities, and resources they request to summation the integer world.
State Representative Carlos Gonzalez, on with Mayor Domenic Sarno, City Council President Jesse Lederman, Dalila Wilson-Scott, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Comcast Corporation and President of the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation, Carolyne Hannan, Senior Vice President, Comcast, Western New England Region, Frank Robinson, Vice President, Baystate Health and Western Massachusetts Alliance for Digital Equity, Paul Bailey, Executive Director, Springfield Partners for Community Action, and Claire Higgins, Executive Director, Community Action Pioneer Valley volition beryllium successful attendance.
The announcement volition beryllium connected Friday astatine 10:00 a.m. astatine Springfield Partners for Community Action connected State Street successful Springfield.
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