Internet Essentials From Comcast

National PTA^® presents a new innovative opportunity from Comcast^®. Internet Essentials provides affordable Internet service to households with children who receive free school lunches under the National School Lunch Program.

Families who participate in the program will receive the following:

• Affordable Internet at $9.95/month + tax. No price increases, activation fees, nor equipment rental fees.
• A low cost computer, available for $149.99 + tax
• Free Internet training

1) ACQUIRE MATERIALS: Assist with the distribution of Internet Essentials information and materials to those you serve. To order these materials, please visit the Internet Essentials Partners Portal to register your PTA^® chapter as an Internet Essentials partner.

2) HELP SPREAD THE WORD: Actively spread the word and help encourage participation in the Internet Essentials program. For example, you can:

• Share information about Internet Essentials on by posting on your website, promoting it in newsletters, hanging posters in local club sites, distributing brochures through e-mail distribution or word-of-mouth with board, staff members, and volunteers, and attending local Internet Essentials launch events.
• Reach out to your local school districts, school principals and other community partners.
• Use your social media outlets to spread the word to your constituents.
• Author "Letters to the Editor" in local papers.

3) ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION: Help kids in your schools who you think might qualify for Internet Essentials by signing up at InternetEssentials.com.

For more information please see:  http://www.pta.org/4766.htm