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Open-Mesh Network: The Lorain CYC Experience

By Angela Siefer | Published: December 20, 2011
Tim HowardOne of the greatest challenges of successful sustainable broadband adoption projects (including Connect Your Community) is access to low cost broadband. We are attempting multiple solutions, one of which is [...]
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Akron CYC Team Slam Dunks Teacher Training!

By Angela Siefer | Published: August 24, 2011
Lebron James encourages the APS 3rd Graders to “listen to your teachers, accept help from your community and stay in school".A gym full of Akron Public Schools third-graders made a pledge to do their best at their school work, listen to their teachers and stay in school. Nothing out of [...]
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Chili Crossroads Bible Church works to enhance digital literacy in Chili, Ohio

By stennant | Published: April 15, 2011
Chili Church CYCChili, Ohio, is the kind of place you would miss if you blinked as you drove through it on County Road 10. But the tiny hamlet in rural Coshocton County [...]
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An educated, disabled man realizes he is on the wrong side of the digital divide

By admin | Published: March 30, 2011
The Disabled Digital Divide (EDITOR’S NOTE: OneCommunity Director of Development Andrea Castrovillari wrote the following piece to convey an experience that brought home for her the true importance of broadband access for everyone in [...]
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ACCEL’s CYC & Cornerstone Church Team to Enhance Broadband Connectivity in Duncan Falls

By Doug Adams | Published: February 19, 2011
cornerstoneBy putting this lab here, we are helping ensure that the graduates have a location to make regular, meaningful use of the Internet
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Cleveland’s SBA Star is Rising!

By Doug Adams | Published: February 18, 2011
danteDante Harper is a young man in the Cleveland metro area taking advantage of the tremendous opportunities CYC provides.  Dante was drawn to the program as a chance to strengthen [...]
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Grateful Akron Students Say Thank You

By Doug Adams | Published: February 17, 2011
bernettthumb“My teacher was magnificent! If it was not for her and the Akron Urban League Connect Your Community Program, I could not have raised my hands in the air and [...]
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Detroit’s SBA Stars are Rising

By Doug Adams | Published: February 16, 2011
starsDetroit’s SBA Stars recently received free computers thanks to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan – here, three recent graduates – and Sustainable Broadband Adopter Stars – anxiously await the [...]
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Akron’s CYC Program Deputizes Deputy Mayor

By Doug Adams | Published: February 15, 2011
dorothyoDorothy O. Jackson, Akron Ohio Deputy Mayor is a recent graduate of the Akron Urban League Connect Your Community training program.  Who would have thought that a person as connected [...]
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More Appalachia CYC Stars!

By Doug Adams | Published: February 5, 2011
ivannaIvanna Michael has completed all of the basic courses in her Connect Your Community training in Coshocton and thinks it has made a difference in her life. Her husband passed [...]
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