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Press and Media Coverage of Byte Back:

November 24, 2011: Byte Back is featured in the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/11/byte-back-takes-bite-out-dcs-jobless-rate

Byte Back posting on Catalogue for Philanthropy: http://www.catalogueforphilanthropy-dc.org/cfpdc/nonprofit-detail.php?id=94481

Video by ReAct Media for Wash Post Award:   http://vimeo.com/13855452

Kelley’s interview with Glen O-Gilvie for staffing epidode of Connections for the Center for Nonprofit Advancement: http://www.nonprofitadvancement.org/connections-staff-development Note that Kelley’s segment is the third one, about 20 minues into the program

September 22, 2011:  Byte Back’s Executive Director, Kelley Ellsworth, was a guest on Inside One City…Conversations with Mayor Vincent C. Gray. The episode is entitled, “Back to Work,” and focusses on Mayor Gray’s One DC One Job program. You can view this today at 6:00 pm on TV-16 or you can click on this link to watch it now. We thank the Mayor for including Byte Back and for prioritizing job development! http://www.oct.dc.gov/services/on_demand_video/channel16/3718.asx

May 7, 2011: Byte Back Featured in Local Media, Larissa Rosso covered  Byte Back instructor Kyle Johnson’s PC for Beginners course at the Anacostia Public Library, for The Washington Post‘s Local page.
April 21, 2011: A blog about Byte Back and our April graduation event in The Commerce Blog by Deputy Assistant Secretary Anna M. Gomez: http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/04/21/commerces-ntia-showcases-broadband-stimulus-success-story

April 13, 2011: A nice long profile about Byte Back and our April graduation event in the Afro-American: http://www.afro.com/sections/news/Washington/story.htm?storyid=4682

 April 2, 2011: A radio profile of Byte Back graduate Patricia Freeman on WAMU: http://wamu.org/news/11/04/01/program_fights_unemployment_byte_by_byte.php

November 22, 2010: Chuck Bean from the Nonprofit Roundtable urges employers to hire Byte Back graduates in a Thanksgiving piece in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/19/AR2010111906372.html

October 28, 2010: Leslie Cooper writes a lovely letter to the editor in response to the Washington Informer article listed below: http://www.washingtoninformer.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4817:letters-to-the-editor&catid=57:oped&Itemid=154

October 14, 2010: A feature story in the Washington Informer about Byte Back students, volunteers and partners:

http://washingtoninformer.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4714:byte-back-bridges-the-digital-divide&catid=53:business&Itemid=162

September 20, 2010: NBC runs a feature story about Byte Back’s partnership with Back on My Feet: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Homeless_Runners_Turning_Life_Around_Washington_DC.html

August 6, 2010: Byte Back’s summer program is featured in a story about the loss of Summer Youth Employment Program funding. http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0810/761773.html

August 4, 2010: Byte Back receives a $100,000 Green Jobs grant for our Computer Refurbish/Repair/Recycle Program: http://newsroom.dc.gov/show.aspx/agency/does/release/20273

June 24, 2010: Byte Back wins Honorable Mention for the 2010 Washington Post Award for Excellence in Nonprofit Management!

http://nonprofitadvancement.org/news/phillips-programs-children-and-families-wins-washington-post-award

http://nonprofitadvancement.org/blog/meet-finalist-byte-back

http://www.bisnow.com/washington_dc_trade_association_news_story.php?p=9055

June 17, 2010: Byte Back and our Community Computer Day event were featured in the Washington Examiner:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/blogs/local-opinion-zone/Byte-Backs-Digital-multiplication-96570549.html

May 7, 2010: Article on Kyle Johnson, Volunteer Instructor, in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/free-computer-classes-at-dc-libraries-help-bridge-digital-divide/2011/05/06/AFwRg2JG_story.html

February 26, 2010: Byte Back Executive Director speaks on a panel at OCTO’s Community Broadband Summit. You can see the panel discussion here:

http://vimeo.com/10903490

January 26, 2010: El Pais, a  newpaper published in Madrid, published a lengthy feature article about Byte Back and internet access in the United States. (article is in Spanish)

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Internet/crea/marginados/elpepusoc/20100126elpepisoc_1/Tes

January 2010: Byte Back Director Kelley Ellsworth is interviewed for Comcast Local Edition.

http://www.comcastcreative.com/video/CLE%20-%20%20K%20Ellsworth%20121009_01.wmv

January 2010: Byte Back Director Kelley Ellsworth, Instructors Nicole Feemster and Tiana Jorman, and student Sheila Melvin were interviewed for a Voice of America piece about the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s upcoming plan for national broadband access. Click below to read the article or view the video:

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Government-Seeks-to-Give-All-Americans-Access-to-High-Speed-Internet-80698497.html

October 4, 2009: Byte Back Executive Director Kelley Ellsworth, Office Manager Felicia Hawkins, Director of Programs Debony Heart, and student Maurice Dixon are interviewed by Mary Jane Williams for BBN3/Washington DC.

http://assignments.bbn3.com/videos/closing-the-digital-divide-1425

September 23, 2009:  Byte Back Executive Director Kelley Ellsworth is quoted in an article about the One Web Day panel discussion in PC World, Mac World and Computer World.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/172409/fcc_still_looking_for_broadband_ideas.html

http://www.macworld.com/article/142938/2009/09/broadband.htm

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=E361E701-1A64-6A71-CEF3F8E002BBA739

September 21, 2009: Byte Back Executive Director Kelley Ellsworth is mentioned in an article in the “Tech Daily Dose” section of the National Journal Online about the upcoming One Web Day panel discussion.

http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/09/mark-your-calendars-one-web-da.php

September 21, 2009: Byte Back Executive Director Kelley Ellsworth is interviewed for the Save Our Safety Net campaign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhvE_XVyHaw

September 16, 2009: Byte Back Executive Director Kelley Ellsworth and Job Coordinator Terrell Waller are featured in a full-page article on page 6 in Street Sense magazine.

http://streetsense.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/091609_small1.pdf

July 2, 2009: Byte Back graduate Calvin Butler and Job Coordinator Terrell Waller are featured on Fox 5.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/money/070209_fox_5_money_job_search_for_unemployed

June 11, 2009:  Byte Back Director of Programs, Debony Heart, mentioned in the Washington Area Women’s Foundation blog. http://thewomensfoundation.org/2009/dcwa-free-job-training-programs-throughout-dc-help-build-skills-and-self-sufficiency/

April 29, 2009: Byte Back is mentioned the City Desk blog from the Washington City Paper about government earmarks.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/04/29/dc-council-porkfest-2010/

April 8, 2009: An interview by Free Press reporter Megan Tady of Byte Back Director of Programs, Debony Heart is posted on the Internet for Everyone website (“Story Five: Left Out in the Cold in DC”) and on Youtube.

http://www.internetforeveryone.org/americaoffline/urban

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoWe3Ej8j_Y&feature=player_embedded#

February 5, 2009:  Byte Back Executive Director is interviewed by “The 3-Minute Interview” in the Washington Examiner.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/3-Minute-Interview-Ellsworth39105982.html

September 2008: Byte Back Executive Director Kelley Ellsworth is quoted in an article about D.C. government earmarks in the Brookland Heartbeat.

http://www.brooklandheartbeat.org/sep08_bsa.html

May 13, 2008: Byte Back is mentioned in the City Desk blog from the Washington City Paper about government earmarks.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/05/13/council-porks-out-48-mil/

Tenth Year anniversary video with thumb nails http://www.archive.org/details/ByteBack10thYearCelebration