RootProject completes campaign with Tech Goes Home
RootProject is excited to announce that we have raised $5,231 for Tech Goes Home. Tech Goes Home (TGH), based in Boston, MA, is a national award-winning initiative empowering communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives. TGH is one of the first nonprofits RootProject partnered with from the pre-ICO.
One of TGH’s goals is to increase economic self-sufficiency by equipping homeless people and those at risk of homelessness with skills to move towards economic stability, enabling them to overcome barriers to employment and encouraging sustained employment. TGH responds to the needs of homeless families, particularly young homeless families, that require intensive support to develop the skills to move away from homelessness permanently.
TGH partners with homeless shelters to provide families 15 hours of hands-on internet skills training, with a qualified trainer from a local shelter, through which people explore a web-based curriculum and step-by-step tutorials designed to help them learn to navigate and use the Internet to improve everyday life. Tutorials focus on topics such as helping find low-cost housing, how to sign up for the SNAP Food Stamps program, and how to take advantage of free resources to create a resume and search for jobs online. Participants also receive help signing up for discounted high-speed Internet, as well as free online Rosetta Stone subscriptions for improving English skills. Upon program completion, they are given the option to purchase a new computer for $50. TGH has graduated more than 25,000 people and distributed more than 15,000 new computers.
RootProject’s mission is to unlock the power of blockchain and crowdfunding to assist communities and nonprofits in making real change. The work of TGH does just that. We are excited to be a part of using innovative technology for social good and to impact important issues such as homelessness.
With $5,231 raised with RootProject, TGH will be able to continue their work providing homeless and unsheltered families receive computes, internet access and training needed for kids to be successful in school and adults to find jobs.
RootProject is gaining momentum having now funded three campaigns. As we continue to expand the scope and volume of our crowdfunding efforts, get ready to see even more from RootProject.
