Her two questions have led to hundreds of discussions led by thousands of community activists – municipal leaders, college students, corporate and foundation supporters and civic volunteers – that has resulted in a digital revolution that will not be declared victorious until every family has access to computers and the internet in their homes.

Since 2013, E2D has worked with 170 schools in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School (CMS) system.  As of Summer 2023, more than 36,000 families have bridged the digital divide using laptops provided by E2D.

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Students who were spiraling downward as just “the next generation of multi-generational poverty” have begun to use their new computers to vault quickly upward where the larger student body is thriving.