STAMFORD – City-based Broadband and cable TV provider Spectrum has awarded $1.1 million in digital education grants to 55 nonprofit organizations to expand access to digital tools, skills training and resources in the communities it serves.
Since launching in 2017, Spectrum Digital Education has committed more than $11 million to support 204 community-based nonprofits across its 41-state service area. It partners with nonprofits that share a commitment to using technology as a tool for pursuing education, finding jobs or accessing healthcare among many things.
“Technology is a powerful equalizer, but only if people have access to a computer and then know how to use it,” said Rahman Khan, group vice president of community impact. “Through Spectrum Digital Education, we’re helping our nonprofit partners turn connectivity into real opportunities for their communities, from education and employment to everyday connection and independence.”
Since launching, Spectrum Digital Education has awarded 383 grants, helping to distribute nearly 20,000 laptops and sponsor more than 45,000 digital education classes, benefiting nearly 188,000 community members nationwide.
Among the 2025 Spectrum Digital Education grantees are Human-I-T, a Pasadena, California-based nonprofit that will use Spectrum’s funding to distribute refurbished laptops to low-income seniors in Southern California; Dallas City Homes in Texas that will build a computer lab inside an affordable housing community; the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky in Hazard that will expand an initiative that offers mobile STEM instruction; and The STEM Alliance in New York.
