Program areas at NACEPF
Provided high-speed, free or low-cost, mobile broadband service to schools, libraries, nonprofits, social welfare and healthcare organizations to increase Educational and workforce development opportunities, digital literacy, and broadband availability in both metropolitan and rural areas throughout the united states. During the covid-19 global pandemic, we continued to provide critical broadband service to more than 10,000 Educational and nonprofit organizations across all 50 states and Washington dc. We also provided an estimated $3,300,000 in savings with our free or low cost broadband plans, and our unlimited broadband accounts delivered more than 44,141,700 gb of data to keep communities connected during this unprecedented time.
Mobile beacon completed the work of migrating each one of its customers from the legacy sprint network to the t-mobile network. This involved replacing and upgrading each customer's device with a new device compatible with the t-mobile network, as well as developing new software and processes to support the new t-mobile platform so we could continue to provide free technical support and customer support to our customers 7 days a week.
Mobile beacon provided 10,812 donated devices to schools, libraries, nonprofits and Educational institutions during the fiscal year. With these donated devices and reduced-cost, unlimited data plans, these organizations had the broadband access they needed to fulfill their missions, expand program services in their communities, and connect their constituents who otherwise lacked access to technology.
The center for disease control cites two major effects of hunger on academic performance: the inability to focus and excessive absences due to illness. Rhode island community food bank reported that 1 in 4 households in ri lack adequate food. Demand for food assistance grew 18% between june 2021 and june 2022, and 42% of households with children are food insecure. Nacepf's charitable contributions from the vegetable produce it grows on its acreage addresses some of the root causes that impedes academic success by distributing 100,082 units or bundles of vegetable produce totaling 17,625 pounds in weight to local area soup kitchens and food distribution charities that serve the poor, needy, and homeless in rhode island.
Nacepf provided a grant to mary's meals, a nonprofit that provides one nutritious daily meal in a place of education in some of the poorest areas of the world. 64 million of the world's hungriest children do not attend school. In order to survive, they have to beg or work. With mary's meals program, children are motivated to attend school to receive a meal while making the most of their education. When the pandemic closed schools, mary's meals continued to provide vital meals in the form of community distributions, providing a lifeline to many families during this challenging time. Nacepf's donation enabled mary's meals to continue to feed and support 37,483 children in zambia, malawi, kenya, syria, haiti, south sudan, and ethiopia.
Nacepf expanded its partnership with buildon to provide adult literacy programs in developing countries. Nacepf continued to fund service-learning Programming for one year to buildon students at inner city high schools in the united states and the construction of schools in six developing countries: burkina fasu, nepal, nicaragua, haiti, senegal and malawi. Buildon is a nonprofit that builds schools in villages that historically have had no adequate school structure where students are squeezed into dark crumbling mud huts or taught outside only when weather permits. Buildon's unique model includes an agreement with every member of the community to educate boys and girls in equal numbers and to commit to ending the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations for their children, grandchildren and themselves.