Access Broadband Connect (ABC) Grants
Digital Access Project – ABC
This Access, Broadband, Connect Grant enables Mothers Helping Others (MHO) to promote affordable access to home Internet in Los Angeles County to help meet the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) overall goal of 500,000 adoptions by 2022. The $18,000 grant awarded in May 2019 is to achieve 150 adoptions. MHO is helping families establish new Internet subscriptions. With expertise in outreach through schools, MHO is primarily working with Pomona Unified School District and Los Angeles Unified School District and has long-term relationships with Boys & Girls Clubs, programs supported by Women, Infants & Children (WIC), libraries, and other welfare associations within Pomona, Azusa, Glendora, West Covina, and Pasadena.
Frontier Partnership Grants
Frontier Digital Access Project
This Grant enables the participation of MHO in the partnership between CETF and Frontier Communications, Inc. to increase awareness and adoptions to help meet the partnership program goal of 50,000 adoptions by 2021. The $36,000 grant awarded in April 2019 for $36,000 is designed to achieve 600 adoptions. MHO is also managing the computing device distribution after a new Internet subscription is confirmed. With expertise in outreach through schools, MHO is primarily working with Pomona Unified School District and Los Angeles Unified School District and has long-term relationships with Boys & Girls Clubs, WIC programs, libraries, and other welfare associations Pomona, Azusa, Glendora, West Covina, and Pasadena.
