"More than 2.2 million people are imprisoned in the United States, and the barriers to re-entry into society are high. Those who receive some education in prison are 43 percent less likely to return, according to a RAND study."
Designers for Learning (Links to an external site.), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit incorporated in the United States. Designers for Learning's mission is to coordinate volunteer service-learning opportunities with those who seek to gain experience creating instruction and other types of performance improvement solutions for nonprofits and other social causes.
"Problem/need addressed: The Learner Web Partnership addresses the primary barriers to broadband access and use among adults in the United States: affordability, lack of digital literacy skills, and a perceived lack of content relevant to their daily lives, needs, and future aspirations. These barriers are exacerbated among populations that have the lowest levels of broadband access: primarily low-income adults who lack a high school education. This includes a growing-and increasingly diverse-population of adults from immigrant and language-minority communities."