HUD Connect Home Playbook

PLAYBOOK A man flips through guidance at the 2015 White House Summit.The ConnectHome Playbook provides tools to give life to ConnectHome and help you to close the digital divide in your community. Building on the first year of ConnectHome, HUD and EveryoneOn collaborated with the pilot communities to identify key insights from their experiences about how to best leverage public-private partnerships to narrow the digital divide. The ConnectHome Playbook incorporates these lessons, models, tips, and case studies, and sets out how your community can successfully set up its own digital inclusion initiative step-by-step. Explore each section and chapter below, or download each chapter as a PDF. Click here to download the full PDF. SECTION 1: LAUNCHPAD 1: Getting Started (download PDF) 2: Building Partnerships (download PDF) 3: Assessing Your Baseline (download PDF) 4: Organizing a Local Convening (download PDF) 5: Developing an Action Plan (download PDF) SECTION 2: THREE-LEGGED STOOL 6: Connectivity Strategies (download PDF) 7: Computers & Tablets (download PDF) 8: Digital Literacy Training (download PDF) SECTION 3: RUNNING YOUR PROGRAM 9: Securing Funds (download PDF) 10: Engaging Residents (download PDF) 11: Partnering with Schools (download PDF) 12: Tracking Progress (download PDF) footer-icons U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | 451 7th Street S.W., Washington, DC 20410 Telephone: (202) 708-1112 TTY: (202) 708-1455 Find the address of the HUD office near you