Tech Goes Home (TGH), founded in 2000, is a national award-winning initiative empowering communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives. With the support and backing of the city of Boston, TGH prioritizes low-income and underserved populations, including people from challenged neighborhoods, those without technology at home, the unemployed and underemployed, people who do not speak English, and individuals with disabilities. Most TGH households have incomes under $20,000 per year. Of the population TGH serves, 90% are people of color, 40% are English learners. About 45% of TGH School courses support students with special needs.

 

TGH is focused on tackling the entrenched barriers to technology adoption and Internet access in Boston and across the US. More than 90% of survey respondents subscribe to Internet access in their homes long after program completion. More than 25,000 participants have completed TGH. Partnership programs have run in Tennessee, New York, New Mexico, Connecticut, and Louisiana.