Bring it Home Initiative Offering Free Technology Packages

We now live in a digital age. We can use the Internet to track and grow our wealth; further our education and position in the job market; and manage and improve our health. The paradox of the digital age is that while technology expands opportunities for significant numbers of people, it can also divide us further by highlighting the disparities between the haves and the have-nots – those with engaged and meaningful access and those without. When low-income people lack access to technology, they become further isolated from the social and economic mainstream. 

One Economy is a national nonprofit organization created to be a catalyst for innovation and change. We help bring access to technology into the homes of low-income people around the country. We use that technology to connect low-income people to information and tools they can use to build assets and improve their lives.

Today, the self-interests of consumers, government, nonprofits, schools and businesses converge around issues such as expanded markets, quality workforce, education and investment. All of these entities have an interest in reaching the consumer. Technology offers the potential to provide cost-effective and scalable means to achieve this goal. With technology, low-income people need not be an ignored market any longer.

One Economy has created an opportunity for nonprofit organizations to deliver information and services; for governments to communicate with constituents; for businesses to reach new markets efficiently and for low-income people to move beyond being passive recipients of services to being better-informed consumers and producers.


The strategy is to help low-income people use technology to build assets and join the economic mainstream focuses around three key areas: access, content and demonstrations of what works in sites we call "Digital Communities."