Closing the Digital Divide: The Strive partners with Comcast

Our partnership with Comcast strives to close the digital divide, an essential step in improving k-12 public education. The future of education is technology. Without access to internet and a computer available at home, low-income students are at a large disadvantage, causing their academic achievement to suffer. According to the US Department of Commerce, only 52% of households with annual incomes under $30,000 have internet, versus 87% of those earning more.  Students growing up without internet at home are missing out on valuable opportunities, and their families may be unable to communicate with their children’s teachers and schools.

Internet Essentials, a new program from Comcast, is designed to expand Internet access and close the digital divide in three important ways. While in the program, Comcast customers receive:

1.  Affordable Internet at $9.95 per month. No price increases. No activation fee. No deposit.
2.  A low cost computer available for just $149, plus tax.
3.  Free Internet training.

Together, we will be helping to close the digital divide!  For more information, go to www.internetessentials.com.

Introducing our delicious cupcake…

June 2011 marks our official partnership with Let’s Cupcake, San Francisco, a new cupcake cafe that opened in San Francisco in mid-June. Let’s Cupcake SF will be dedicating the proceeds of one special (and delicious) cupcake to The Strive. Customers will be able to easily see which cupcake benefits The Strive, and thus, public education!

Let’s Cupcake SF isn’t like any other ordinary cupcake cafe. This cafe prides itself on acting as a creative outlet for SF youth. In the cafe, there is a study room for students, a stage for community artists to perform for free, a case display with products from local designers and entrepreneurs ready for purchase, and to top it all off, all photography and paintings on their walls are the masterpiece’s of young community artists. Let’s Cupcake SF is all about bettering the community and we are proud to be partnering with them. Make sure to stop by and try The Strive’s special cupcake, “The Best of Both Worlds.” This cupcake is absolutely delicious – a salted vanilla butter cream frosting with a banana cake and coffee crunch on top with a caramel drizzle to top it off! It’s a win-win situation. You’ll get a sweet treat while helping improve public education and create young leaders with every bite!