Award Sub-Category: Social & Cultural Impact

Black & Veatch’s Digital Equity Bus delivers high-speed internet
access, computer literacy classes, and workforce development skills to
people in historically under-resourced communities. Black & Veatch
is working to “Build a World of Difference” by ensuring everyone has
access to communication technologies and the knowledge to properly use
them.

We have created a program that encourage females to join the STEM
workforce. The School District is doing a Major Energy savings project.
The awarded vendors are tasked also to provide STEM education,
internship, field trips and exposure to the females students in our
Energy Diamonds Sustainable Ambassadors summer camps and afterschool
programs.

PCs for People, a national leader in digital equity, is furthering their
work in bridging the digital divide by developing affordable and
reliable high-speed internet service in low-income communities. By
leveraging community partnerships and existing infrastructure, we have
begun connecting thousands of households nationwide.