We just released a new partner profile on Arzona Students Recycling Used Technology (AZStRUT) at  https://pbdd.org/partner-profiles thanks to board member Maryanna Milton. When possible, we like to include a visit with a partner profile, so hopefully, our travels will take us to … Continue reading →

This newsletter is about the release of a white paper on fundraising, a new partner profile (that we were asked to delete in 2020, so we have) and updated web pages. Our fourth white paper, The Experience of Fundraising, published in … Continue reading →

Katherine Lato, Maryanna Milton and Barry Glicklich of PBDD went to the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA)’s conference in St. Paul, MN on May 16-17th. This was the second annual conference sponsored by NDIA. The Net Inclusion conference at St. … Continue reading →

This is the time of year when many families send out a wrap-up of their year, so here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to with PBDD. We released our third white paper, Computer Refurbishing Process, that presents an overview of … Continue reading →

PBDD teamed with the People’s Resource Center to present a night of food and laughter for fifty people on October 20th. We titled the event, ‘Laughing Matters,’ and PBDD board member Maryanna Milton ended the evening by thanking everyone and encouraging … Continue reading →

In July and August, PBDD experimented with two low-cost mobile broadband providers and we would like to share our experience and information about hotspot offers with our partners. Mobile Beacon and Mobile Citizen are non-profits which work with Sprint and their LTE network … Continue reading →

Net Inclusion – May 18-19, 2016, Kansas City, MO There are a lot of links in this material, we encourage you to explore the ones of most interest to you. Key points: It’s an exciting time for digital  inclusion. Kansas … Continue reading →

Thanks to all who contributed comments to PBDD-White Paper: Lessons from Starting a Bridging Agency. We encourage you to share it with others as part of your organization’s publicity. To make it easy to find them, we’ve created an Experience Papers … Continue reading →

It has been a great run-up to the end of the year with conferences that helped clarify our purpose and extend our contacts. Vice-President Maryanna Milton attended the Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide (PPDD) conference in Scottsdale Arizona in … Continue reading →

Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide highlights: Mix of academics, non-profits and policymakers from around the world. Emphasis on broad-band adoption.   Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide 2015 Conference Report Board member Maryanna Milton attended the conference in Phoenix, … Continue reading →