Project Waves spent 2020 providing free internet to over 120 families in Baltimore city, and has received funding from the National Science Foundation to provide free internet service to 250 more families.

Its work has grown in a city where 40% of residents don’t have wireline internet access, according to an Abell Foundation report released this year. That’s 96,000 Baltimore households that didn’t have access when school and work went remote in the pandemic.

Among them was the home of 60-year-old Jay Bennet, where he lives with three children. Before getting connected when Project Waves set up internet in his Lakeland neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore, he had gone a year without internet service.

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