Our Mission

Connect Humanity’s mission is to finance the internet access and adoption programs communities need to expand opportunity and improve lives.

High-speed internet is no longer a “nice-to-have.” It underpins education, healthcare, work, civic participation, and economic growth. Even so, 75 million people in the US lack a home broadband subscription. And globally, billions remain unconnected.

We won’t close the digital divide using the same tools that created it.

Connect Humanity exists to rewire the financial logic of a market that has failed too many low-income, rural communities, and communities of color. Working alongside local leaders, ISPs, and financial partners, we finance community-led solutions where traditional models don’t reach and public funding alone isn’t enough.

Fitting solutions to communities, not the other way around

We design financial tools and programs that meet the specific realities of each community working to close the digital divide.

Financing digital infrastructure & adoption programs

Connectivity only matters if people can use it. That’s why we support both broadband infrastructure and the services — like digital skills and device access — that make connection meaningful.

Backing community-centric providers and projects

We center community interests through ownership, governance, and long-term accountability.

Designing for sustainability

We blend public funding, philanthropy, and impact investment to build durable connectivity models — not projects dependent on unpredictable grant cycles.

Our Values

We work with communities, funders, and investors who believe connectivity should create shared local value. Our values shape every partnership, every project, and every decision we make.

  1. We build with and not for the communities we seek to serve, humble and mindful of great work already being done by our partner organizations around the world, empowering communities as
    stakeholders in their own digital futures.
  2. Expanding the financial toolbox and funding available, we deploy grants and impact investments depending on what our partners need to advance digital opportunity holistically. We strive to provide support where, when, and how it is needed, not how it is most convenient for us.
  3. Committed to continuous learning, we consult early and often on our programs and investments, while fostering a sense of safety and constructive candor where our partners can share honest feedback so we can learn and iterate as a community.
  4. Working in the open, we are invested in cultivating a body of shared knowledge for all actors working to advance digital opportunity — not only with civil society organizations and community-focused ISPs doing the hard work of meeting the digital needs of their communities, but with the regulators, investors, and funders who’s partnership is necessary to close the digital divide.

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