Highline established the Highline Academy to provide digital skills resources and training to the communities it serves through live-taught, video-based learning that is modern and engaging.
 

Achievement
During the pandemic, Home Communications partnered with local schools and families to bring service to students during remote work. It also ran a promotion for all first responders and medical personnel for three months of free service as a thank you for everything they did during the pandemic. Home operates a school little library, which shares books for free and has been a family business committed to bringing service to their neighbors for decades.

Home Telecom is working to bridge the digital divide in South Carolina's Lowcountry by deploying SmartTown community Wi-Fi networks to ensure students have access to broadband outside of school and helped launch the Berkeley Community Resource hub to provide hands-on digital literacy training.

Jefferson, Iowa is a progressive rural community with leaders who understand that drawing young families to work and live here involves jobs associated with technology. The community worked on a Vision 2020 plan in 2017 setting goals, with updating school facilities as the top priority. A school bond had been voted down twice for a new high school until a game-changing proposal was presented in 2017. The plan included a new high school and a regional career academy for community college-level classes in several fields closely related to today’s Greene County economy: advanced manufacturing, agricultural technology, health care, hospitality and service employment, and software development (information technology).

Kalona Cooperative Telephone Co. (KCTC) is located near several Amish communities that do not use electricity, which is necessary to power a fiber optic network. To overcome this challenge, KCTC sought an innovative solution by working with a local electric coop to install solar panels on shared phone booths to power the hardware and provide vital communications tools to surrounding communities.

To help rural farmers and homeowners outside of its service territory, KCTC provides Internet services through fixed wireless equipment made possible by a partnership with another local telco, Liberty Communications. KCTC also is using its fiber network to expand operations into the neighboring town of Washington, which has an aging network that has left residents and businesses in dire need of better service.