Sprint to Donate $1 Million in Product and Services to Help Keep City of Oakland Youth and Young Adults Connected
July 21 2016 - 11:51AM
Business Wire
With My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, Company
Commits 500 Mobile Hotspots with Service at Landmark Boys and Men
of Color Career Summit in the Bay Area
Sprint today will announce a donation of approximately $1
million in devices and service to help further the educational and
employment opportunities for 500 City of Oakland, CA young adults
as part of the Sprint for ConnectED program, and partnership with
My Brother’s Keeper Alliance (MBKA) -- a national nonprofit
organization dedicated to improving life outcomes for boys and men
of color.
Executives from Sprint and MBKA will make the commitment to
provide 500 4G LTE mobile hotspot devices each with four years of
service to the City of Oakland at the “Invest in Youth: Pathways to
Success Boys and Men of Color (BMoC) Career Summit.”
This donation will provide much-needed connectivity to support
the learning and career advancement for area youth through the
Oakland Promise program, which aims for every child in Oakland to
graduate from high school with the expectations, resources, and
skills to complete college and be successful in the career of his
or her choice.
“In this increasingly digital world, at Sprint we believe that
connectivity can play a critical role in transforming young
people’s lives to achieve higher levels of education and better job
opportunities,” said Suehyun Johan Chung, Sprint’s Northern
California president. “We’re honored to be part of this tremendous
summit and help 500 Bay Area young adults to complete their online
homework to get better grades, apply for jobs or school
opportunities that are only available online, and have access to
the same online resources as their connected counterparts.”
Sprint employees will meet with hundreds of Bay Area youth at
today’s landmark summit, spearheaded by MBKA. The event is open to
all young adults in the area but will specifically focus on
overcoming barriers to employment that disproportionately impact
BMoCs between the ages of 18 to 29.
About Sprint:
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company
that creates more and better ways to connect its customers to
the things they care about most. Sprint served more than 58.8
million connections as of March 31, 2016 and is widely recognized
for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies,
including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in
the United States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin
Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national
and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1
Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years.
You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or
www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
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SprintLisa Belot, 913-315-5730lisa.belot@sprint.com
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