Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, Internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, and seniors can connect with loved ones. PARTNERS Successful collaborations are at the heart of the Tech Goes Home. TGH has partnered with more than 300 schools and local community sites to run digital skills courses across Greater Boston. Being a Partner TGH serves as program manager, recruiting and training individuals from the partner organizations to run the digital life skills training classes. TGH provides the course model, hand-picked curriculum, marketing material, course volunteers, as well as the computer or iPad and, if needed, 12 months of internet for each individual or family. TGH also collects data before, during, and after each course to increase program efficacy. TGH supports instructors throughout the course via virtual class visits, meetings, and email. The partner organizations provide course instructors, classroom space, and, if needed, computers on which to run the course. The course instructors recruit learners, select curriculum pieces based on the needs of their learners, and schedule and run the training sessions. This localized approach enables learners to develop strong support networks and lasting bonds with instructors and fellow learners. Become a TGH Site Becoming a TGH site is a fantastic way to make a positive impact in your community. If you're interested in joining, we're excited to announce that we have reopened the waiting list for new partner sites to onboard with TGH. While we're not currently accepting new applications, you can still express your interest by joining the waiting list. We'll keep you updated as soon as opportunities become available. Thank you for your enthusiasm and support! Learn More PAST LOCATIONS Check out all the past and present TGH locations. Let's Go

Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, Internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, and seniors can connect with loved ones. OUR HISTORY Founded in 2000, Tech Goes Home helps bring computers, internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, and seniors can connect with loved ones. Digital exclusion perpetuates poverty . Without the tools, access, and skills to do homework and navigate online job portals, it has become incredibly difficult to succeed in school and to gain employment. For example, 8 out of 10 middle skills jobs require digital skills (Cleveland Foundation), and more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies require online job applications, including major employers such as Walmart and CVS (FCC). Further, 84% of the nation’s K-12 teachers report that digital inequities are growing in their classrooms (Pew). FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has stated that the homework gap is the “cruelest part” of the digital divide facing our country. While smartphones are often cited as a ubiquitous tool that could be the solution, a research paper or job application written on a smartphone pales in comparison to one written on a computer. Poor quality access engenders a lower quality product, leading to an ever-widening opportunity gap. TGH has addressed these digital inequities by providing free digital skills training, discounted new computers, and help securing home internet access. We serve people from the ages of 3 to 94, prioritizing those without technology, the un/underemployed, immigrants, English language learners, and people with disabilities. 75% of TGH graduates have household incomes under $35,000, and more than 30% of adult participants are unemployed. Of the learners that TGH serves, 85% are people of color and nearly half are immigrants. Since 2000, OUR MODEL Today TGH serves 5,500 learners each year with only seven full-time employees. Our lean model minimizes costs while creating an opportunity for learners to genuinely engage with the schools and community organizations that run TGH. TGH’s goal is to deliver high quality digital literacy training while amplifying our community partners’ critical work tackling chronic unemployment, education, and health. With the help of 300+ partner schools and community sites, TGH has served 35,000+ people and distributed 22,500+ new computers. In 2020, our goal is to graduate 6,000 Greater Boston residents from our programs, deepen our support for our partner sites and instructors, and ensure the program continues to grow in scope and size. TGH is focused on tackling the entrenched barriers to technology adoption and internet access in Boston and across the U.S. Our school, community, small business, and early childhood initiatives provide an impactful and cost-effective model to help families and individuals gain access to the skills, hardware, and internet access needed for 21st century success. TGH continues to enhance its impact for learners. Perhaps said best by one of our parents who shared, “It is due to your program that my life and career have been elevated...thank you for your amazing program. It has changed my life.” CHANGING LIVES

Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, Internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, and seniors can connect with loved ones.

Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, seniors can connect with loved ones, and all can lead healthy lives. Financials Annual Report Impact Report Untitled Untitled Our Reports Developing a Digital Equity Theory of Change with Tech Goes Home Written in partnership with the Digital Equity Research Center, this new report provides clear recommendations for how to measure impact and improve outcomes for digital equity programs. Read the Full Paper 2024-2034 Strategic Plan Our ten-year timeline divides into priorities that build a scalable, accountable, and enduring infrastructure. This leverages one of TGH’s primary strengths: an unwavering trust in and alignment with, meeting the community where it is to serve it best. Read Our Strategic Plan Previous Impact Reports 2021 2020 2019 Our 2024 Impact Report is a snapshot of the impact we've made together this past year. 2024 Impact Report Rapò Empak (Kreyòl ayisyen) Impact Report (English) Informe de impacto (español) 2023 English Español Kreyòl ayisyen 2022 English Español Kreyòl ayisyen Impact Report Read the full story of all that the TGH community achieved together last year, including expanding to new geographic areas, growing our advocacy work, and strengthening our core programs. 2023 Annual Report 2021 English Español Kreyòl ayisyen 2018 English . . 2021 English Español Kreyòl ayisyen 2020 English . . 2019 English . . Kreyòl ayisyen Previous Annual Reports English Español Annual Report Financials 2023 Audited Financial Statements 2022 Audited Financial Statements 2021 Audited Financial Statements 2020 Audited Financial Statements 2019 Audited Financial Statements 990 Financials Essex County Pilot Report Read the Full Report

Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, Internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, and seniors can connect with loved ones. OUR PARTNERS TGH is the success it is because of our wonderful partners, helping us fight for digital equity. Click here if you are interested in working with us or wish to become a TGH site. City Of Boston Boston abcd Boston Teachers Union Cambridge Public Schools Boston Public Schools Boston Housing Authority Brazilian Worker Center Inc. Catholic Charities Boston Centers for Youth & Families Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Brookline Housing Authority Brookline Housing Authority Chelsea Collaborative Boston Public Library Boston HERC Cambridge Community Television Children's Services of Roxbury City of Chelsea Cambridge Public Library City of Somerville Dorchester Bay EDC Codman Square NDC Community Work Services EMPath Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción International Institute of New England JVS Julie's Family Learning Program La Alianza Hispana Maverick Landing Community Services Mothers for Justice and Equality Neighborhood of Affordable Housing Notre Dame Education Center Boston Project Hope Project Place Revere Public Schools Roca, Inc Rounding the Bases Rounding the Bases The Salvation Army SEIU1199 Training and Upgrading Fund South Boston en Acción Timothy Smith Network WGBH UMass Boston Women's Lunch Place Urban College of Boston WORK Inc. UUUM YMCA

Strategic Plan 2020 Mission Tech Goes Home empowers communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives. Why TGH? Digital exclusion perpetuates poverty. Without the tools, access, and skills to do homework, navigate online job portals, manage finances, communicate with loved ones, and so much more, it has become incredibly difficult to succeed. And considering the stark demographic inequities in the use of technology, digital inclusion has become a social justice issue of our time. 80% of Fortune 500 companies require online job applications, including major employers such as Walmart and CVS (FCC) 84% of the nation’s K-12 teachers report that digital inequities are growing in their classrooms (Pew Research Center, 2017) 44% of adults with household incomes below $30,000 a year don’t have home broadband services and 46% don’t have a computer (Pew Research Center, 2019) Only 46% of seniors with household incomes below $30,000 say they go online (Pew Research Center 2017) Supporting people to get online and use digital health resources can be crucial to achieving local priorities including: physical and mental wellbeing, prevention, self care, shared care and shared decision making, long term condition management, appropriate use of urgent and emergency care (NHS 2019) TGH addresses these inequities by providing free digital skills training, discounted new computers, and help securing home Internet access. We serve people from the ages of 3 to 93, prioritizing those without technology, the un/underemployed, immigrants, and people with disabilities. TGH is focused on tackling the entrenched barriers to technology adoption and Internet access. Our school, community, small business, and early childhood initiatives provide an impactful and cost-effective model to help families and participants gain the skills, hardware, and Internet access needed for lifelong success. History Founded in 2000, Tech Goes Home (TGH) is an award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit that empowers communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives. Simply put, TGH helps bring computers, Internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs and manage finances, and seniors can connect with loved ones. With the help of 350+ partner schools and community sites, TGH has served 35,000+ people in over 2,400 courses and distributed 22,500+ new computers over its tenure. In the past four years, TGH has experienced massive growth, from serving 3,000 people in 2016 to 5,500 in 2019. In 2019 alone, TGH ran 396 courses at nearly 200 community partner sites throughout Greater Boston. 75% of TGH learners had household incomes under $35,000 per year. Nearly half of adult learners were immigrants and 85% were people of color. Program Model The TGH model tackles digital exclusion by providing 15 hours of skills training, a new computer to course graduates for $50, and help finding and securing low-cost, high-quality Internet. Each course is uniquely offered by community leaders, trained by TGH, who come from the communities they serve--as early education or school teachers, community case workers or workforce development coaches, and many other grassroots roles. TGH serves people of all ages: TGH School serves school-age students and their caregivers, TGH Early Childhood serves children 3-6 and their caregivers, TGH Community serves adults and seniors, and TGH Small Business serves micro-entrepreneurs. Board and Staff The TGH Board consists of 13 supporters (38% women, 31% POC) who bring a balanced perspective to leadership decisions. TGH has 8 full-time staff members (72% women, 43% POC) including co-CEOs, four program staff, one operations/finance staff member, and one fundraising staff member. Read our staff bios here . More Information Annual Report Impact Report List of program partners Financials FAQ's Why don’t you use phones instead of computers? While smartphones are often cited as a ubiquitous tool that could be the solution, a research paper or job application written on a smartphone pales in comparison to one written on a computer. Poor quality access engenders a lower quality product, leading to an ever-widening opportunity gap. Why don’t you use refurbished computers? Providing each learner with the same model of computers makes distribution efficient & affordable and allows us to teach the operating system of our choice across all of our programs. We also respect our learners and want to ensure they graduate with a quality laptop. Why don’t TGH staff conduct the 15 hours? The train-the-trainer model allows us to enlist more than 300 culturally and racially diverse instructors who currently and directly work with the people we serve. This diverse, equitable, and inclusive approach allows us to scale our impact many fold. Why not do an online course? Many of our learners don’t know how to get online, never mind take an online course. That itself is a digital literacy lesson on its own. A small classroom setting allows learners to gain hands-on experience, form peer-to-peer learning relationships, and build a connection with their local schools or community organizations. Doesn’t all your funding come from the City of Boston? We get foundational support from CoB but the demand is far greater than the funding can cover. We continue to grow and diversify funding in order to increase reach and sustainability. Why do you charge $50 for devices? We view the $50 as an investment from our learners. They are investing in their own learning and success in the program. We’ve found that the copay for devices has helped tremendously with our program completion (90% of learners who enroll graduate from TGH). Are you only in Boston schools? No. In addition to schools in Boston, we’re currently serving schools in Cambridge, Chelsea, and Revere. And of course we partner with more than 100 community groups, social service agencies, libraries, municipal agencies, and others. Are you funded by or a part of Boston Public Schools? No on both counts. Although we serve many Boston Public Schools, we are not a part of BPS nor do we receive any funding from Boston Public Schools. Is there a basic TGH curriculum I can look at? Yes. Check out our TGH School and Community curriculum here . How are the four programs the same/different? Check out our program overview here.

Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, seniors can connect with loved ones, and all can lead healthy lives. Hear from Our Learners Curious about what Tech Goes Home graduates have to say about our program and what digital equity means to them? Take a look below! Dolores Yrmaris Marcella Yiseth Katherine Raquel Arelis Tslane Olivia Liliana

Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, seniors can connect with loved ones, and all can lead healthy lives. 想繼續學習嗎？ 深潛 以下網站可以幫助您進一步了解TGH課程中的資源。 Grovo 在流行的網站和移動應用程序上提供數千種免費的一分鐘視頻教程。您甚至可以註冊以接收包含您喜歡的網站或應用程序上的教程的每日電子郵件。是否想在不註冊的情況下進行探索？使用登錄 電子郵件：grovo@techgoeshome.org 密碼：techgoeshome Techboomers.com 是一個免費的教育網站，其中包含大量有用的信息以及有關受歡迎的受信任網站的分步教程，其中包括我們課程中的許多功能，例如Gmail，Google地圖，LinkedIn，Facebook，Yelp，Twitter，Etsy等！有關完整列表，請訪問techboomers.com/courses。

Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, seniors can connect with loved ones, and all can lead healthy lives. BECOMING A COURSE ASSISTANT BECOMING A TGH COURSE ASSISTANT Before you start: Please note that course assistants are only for the TGH School and TGH Early Childhood programs. If a course is eligible for a course assistant the instructor will find the needed information in their course approval confirmation email. 1. Complete an online Course Assistant Application Ask the instructor of the course for their Course Assistant Application link which was sent to them in an email titled “Starting your TGH Course”. The instructor can also email us at program@techgoeshome.org for the link. Completing an application does not guarantee that you will become a course assistant. 2. Submit documentation for a Background CORI Check In order to comply with federal law, TGH is required to conduct CORI checks for all course assistants. You will be asked to complete the CORI Acknowledgement Form after completing your application. You will need to provide a government-issued picture ID such as a Driver's License, Passport, State ID, or Legal Resident Card. You will receive an email letting you know whether or not your CORI has been accepted by TGH. If you have a CORI record, please know that TGH will make decisions compassionately. 3. Receive a Decision Regarding Your Course Assistant Application Once all the steps above are complete TGH will make a decision on your application. In some instances, TGH may ask for additional steps or follow-up before making a final decision. You will receive an email letting you know if your application has been approved or denied. Important notes: The instructor for the course you are assisting must include your name on the course application or email us at program@techgoeshome.org to add your name to the course.

Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, Internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, and seniors can connect with loved ones. STRATEGIC PLAN With the help of countless TGH instructors, learners, partners, and supporters, we finished the implementation of a comprehensive three-year strategic plan at the end of 2019. With our strategic plan as a roadmap, we expanded our work beyond the City of Boston into nine additional communities in Greater Boston and strengthened our evaluation practices. We also achieved a higher level of sustainability by diversifying our funding sources, growing our board, and enhancing financial systems. In the past five years alone, we have served 22,000 learners and distributed 14,500 new computers in communities across Greater Boston. We have temporarily paused our second strategic planning process due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we look forward to resuming the process soon. In building our second strategic plan, we will engage numerous partners and community leaders to identify our opportunities for growth and create a plan to sustainably support that growth. SUSTAINABILITY Tech Goes Home will become a sustainable organization. GROWTH Tech Goes Home will grow to serve Greater Boston, becoming a national leader. EFFICACY Tech Goes Home will be demonstrably effective at serving the most critical digital needs of the people we serve. You can download our complete strategic plan here .

Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, Internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, and seniors can connect with loved ones. Remote Volunteering In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently seeking volunteers who can support our programs remotely. Roles for volunteers may include: Serving as a virtual course assistant in a Distance Learning course Creating basic technology how-to video tutorials Creating PDF guides for accessing online resources Translating our resources into other languages If you are interested in volunteering remotely with TGH, please complete the following steps: 1. Read the Frequently Asked Questions section, available here . 2. Complete the Volunteer Application Form Complete this Volunteer Application Form to tell us more about your availability , skills, and interests. We will follow up regarding next steps. Thank you for your interest in volunteering with TGH.

Tech Goes Home is fighting for digital equity. We help bring computers, internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs, seniors can connect with loved ones, and all can lead healthy lives. ABOUT US Founded in 2000, Tech Goes Home empowers communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives. We bring computers, internet, and training to those without so students can do homework, adults can find jobs and manage finances, seniors can connect with loved ones, and all can lead healthy lives. Our Mission Digital Access for Everyone Tech Goes Home connects families and community members across Massachusetts with technology, connectivity, and digital skills to help them thrive. Who We Serve Our Mission & Programs Access to Devices, Internet, & Digital Skills Trainings TGH has opportunities for folks from age 3 to 97. See how TGH can help you! Our Programs Awards and News Tech Goes Home is proud to have a growing list of accolades and news features. Take a minute to let us share them with you! Visit the Newsroom The TGH Team Meet the Team! We have a vibrant team with a passion for helping others. Take a look at the cool things they've done and continue to do to benefit their communities, and don't hesitate to get in touch!