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digital inclusion
NEWS: Half a Million Dollars for Tech Within Reach
Byte Back Selected by Citi Foundation’s Community Progress Makers Fund $500,000 investment in core operating support will enable Byte Back to help low-tech communities gain digital skills and enter into living-wage careers in technology. WASHINGTON, DC – The Citi Foundation announced that Byte Back was selected as the recipient of a $500,000 grant as part […]
We’re Putting Digital Inclusion First at the FCC
If you overheard a conversation about Byte Back at a party, you could probably gather that we offer free tech training for DC-area adults. That’s not all we do for students: we have career workshops, we connect them to employers, we host events like last fall’s Community Tech Day, and when the opportunity arises, we […]
Byte Back Wins $360k(again!) at WeWork Global Finals
Byte Back Competed at the Creator Awards Global Finals at Madison Square Garden In March, WeWork saw something special in Byte Back – tech career training that started 20 years ago and brings economic opportunity to hundreds in the DC community today. Byte Back won the biggest prize at WeWork’s DC Creator Awards – $360,000. Since then, the Creator Awards […]
28M Low-Tech Jobs Are Gone: Here’s What We Can Do about It
New Research Shows Increasing Need for Digital Skills on the Job By Chris Miller, Communications & Development Associate When Demika was looking for ways to move her career forward a few years ago, she hit a roadblock. Jobs required tech skills that she didn’t learn growing up – not that long ago many of those […]
A Day in the Life of Byte Back Instructor Danny
My name is Danny Brown, and I am an Avodah Corps digital literacy instructor for Byte Back. You can read more about me here. I’ve finished three months of my 11-month term with Avodah: The Jewish Service Corps, and by now, I am fully engaged in my role. Some of us at Byte Back thought it would […]
Arcade to IT: Ismael’s Job Journey
By Anthony Edwards, Program Support Ismael Alvarez has always been a bit of a tinkerer, exposed to computers for most of his life. At one point, he worked in a video arcade and would occasionally troubleshoot arcade games that started to “eat” the customer’s quarters or become inoperable. It was his curiosity about the way […]
First Steps: Byte Back Director Supports DC Digital Inclusion Bills
By Chris Miller, Communications & Development Associate Washington, DC is increasingly a tech hub, one of the East Coasts’ primary homes for the technology industry’s most innovative minds. Yet for many DC residents, even the most basic access to computers and the internet is not guaranteed. Elizabeth Lindsey, Byte Back executive director, recently testified in […]
New EPIC Program Brings Free IT Training to Maryland
DC Workforce Development Collaborative Invests in IT Careers for Low-Income Residents The Greater Washington Works initiative is investing $200,000 over two years into IT workforce training at Byte Back. This means, that after 20 years of providing tech training in DC, Byte Back is officially expanding into Maryland with EPIC (Education Partnership for IT Careers). The EPIC program is a $400,000 […]
From Homeless to Hopeful
By Christopher Wallace, Development Manager, & Yvette Scorse, Communications Director Eric Tchicaya was in a dead-end job, and after a car accident, found himself unemployed, depressed, and homeless. Watch how he found hope again for his career and his life.
