PowerOn’s First Community Tech Grant Has Provided $125,403 in Tech Devices
From its founding in 2015, PowerOn has developed a more in depth understanding of the importance of technology for the LGBTQ+ Community....
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Samantha Sygier Cayax
- Jun 15
- 3 min
ACP Week of Action: How to Help Clients Get Affordable Internet
Technology has transitioned from a luxury to a necessity in everyone’s daily lives. Through years of work distributing technology to the...
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Kristen Kelley
- May 26
- 3 min
PowerOn Launches First Cycle of Community Tech Grant
Since the founding of the program in 2015, PowerOn has adapted alongside the ever-changing need for technology by the LGBTQ+ community,...
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PowerOn Team
- Oct 31, 2022
- 2 min
Celebrating LGBTQ+ tech champions at the 2022 PowerOn awards ceremony
The 2022 PowerOn Awards Ceremony was held on October 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Returning to the roots of the inaugural event in 2019,...
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Ellie Bessette
- May 26, 2022
- 1 min
LGBT Tech and PowerOn host webinar on Affordable Connectivity Program
On May 26 LGBT Tech and PowerOn's Chris Wood and Ellie Bessette hosted an informational webinar about the Affordable Connectivity Program...
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PowerOn Team
- Mar 14, 2022
- 3 min
PowerOn issues grants to 32 LGBTQ centers across the country, with support from T-Mobile
After its most prodigious grant application period to date, national tech grantor PowerOn is awarding 32 LGBTQ+ organizations with...
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Kristen Kelley
- Jan 26, 2022
- 4 min
The Importance of Tech Access for Rural LGBTQ+ Communities
While visibility of LGBTQ+ individuals living in cities is high, we can be found living in all parts of the country. There are between...
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Ellie Bessette
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
The Importance of the Emergency Broadband Benefit for the LGBT Community
In May 2021 the Federal Communications Commission launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program offering up to $50 a month...
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Ellie Bessette
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
PowerOn releases 2020 Impact Report
46 LGBTQ+ centers. 275 devices. $47,000 of technology. PowerOn made a difference in 2020 for as many as 55,000 LGBTQ+ individuals,...
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Ellie Bessette
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
PowerOn's Third Annual Awards Ceremony celebrates program participants and LGBTQ+ advocates
On the evening of Thursday, September 30, 2021 PowerOn held its third annual PowerOn Awards Ceremony. To continue to promote safety in a...
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Kristen Kelley
- Jun 18, 2021
- 1 min
LGBT Tech & PowerOn Host Webinar on Emergency Broadband Benefit: How to Get LGBTQ+ Clients Online
On June 8th, LGBT Tech held the webinar “How to Get Our Community Members Online with a $50 Credit Towards Internet Service” featuring...
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Kristen Kelley
- Jun 10, 2021
- 3 min
LGBT TECH & PowerOn Sign On to ACLU Letter Urging Biden To Ensure Accurate ID's For LGBTQ+ Community
This Pride month, LGBT Technology Institute joins a number of civil and human rights groups by signing onto a letter sent to the White...
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Kristen Kelley
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
PowerOn Announces New Partner Centers for 2021
PowerOn is excited to announce its partnership with nine new LGBTQ+ organizations across the country. As jobs, schools, and other spaces...
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PowerOn Team
- Jan 7, 2021
- 3 min
PowerOn Awards 17 LGBTQ+ Organizations with COVID Connectivity Relief
PowerOn, with generous funding support from T-Mobile, has awarded 17 LGBTQ+ organizations with technology grants. This special grant was...
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PowerOn Team
- Nov 23, 2020
- 2 min
We Remember: Transgender Day of Remembrance Across 12 PowerOn Partners
Theses are just a few of the ways PowerOn partners across the country observed Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), a time when LGBTQ+...
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PowerOn Team
- Oct 1, 2020
- 2 min
PowerOn Celebrates with 2020 Virtual Award Ceremony
Tonight, PowerOn held its second annual PowerOn Awards Ceremony, an event designed to recognize program participants and supporters...
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PowerOn Team
- Aug 31, 2020
- 1 min
PowerOn Signs HRC/Lambda Legal USPS Letter
Last week, the Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal released an open letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate...
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Ellie Bessette
- Jul 21, 2020
- 4 min
The Importance of the Broadband Adoption and Opportunity Act for LGBTQ Communities
On July 6, 2020, Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ) introduced H.R.7494, the Broadband Adoption and Opportunity Act (BAOA) which proposes the...
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PowerOn Team
- Jul 8, 2020
- 3 min
5 Ways Technology Supports the LGBTQ+ Community
Tech matters to the LGBTQ+ community. Here's five important reasons why.
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PowerOn Team
- Jun 3, 2020
- 1 min
PowerOn announces new Partner Centers
Today, PowerOn announced on social media the names of the fourteen LGBTQ+ organizations that were accepted into the program this year....
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