Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Comcast commits $35 million digital skills programming.Telecommunications giant Comcast has announced a $35 million commitment to hundreds of community organizations this year to help train the "Team of Tomorrow"-the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs and creatorsby supporting access to opportunities, technology and digital skills.The funding commitment is part of Project UP, Comcast's broader commitment to connect people to the Internet, support digital skills and jobs programs and advance economic mobility.Comcast's commitment will include supporting nonprofit partners that are making impact at scale in the areas of research, digital skills training, entrepreneurship and creativity.Examples of organizations to be supported include Jobs For the Future, which will commission new collaborative research through its Center for Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work and its Center for Racial Economic Equity; Per Scholas, a leading tech training nonprofit that integrates technical education with professional development; 2Gether-International, which provides disabled start-up entrepreneurs with the tools and resources needed to be leaders in their respective industries; BUILD.org, a youth-focused organization that helps students to build career success, entrepreneurial mindsets and opportunity; and Wide Angle Youth Media, which provides media arts education to thousands of youth in Baltimore.
Source: Corporate Philanthropy Report
DOI: 10.1002/cprt.32074
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4402357610