U - Science & Technology

Our mission is to enhance youth science understanding through interactive and engaging discovery.

Technology, and the capacity to use it and produce it, both empowers and equips communities to address their needs, become self-sufficient, and thrive in today's world. Technology makes change possible.

Yet roughly half of the world lives in technological poverty, with little to no access to the internet and limited opportunities for education and training. IFGI addresses this technology gap by increasing access to technology and supporting education and tech literacy for the technologically poor.

Provide economic, environmental and societal benefits through innovative and practical approaches to energy issues.

Democratize data to facilitate an empowered, productive, and equitable community.

To promote scientific research and education to encourage the development of the electronic and information technologies industries in the State of North Carolina.

Kramden Institute is a non-profit based in Durham, NC whose purpose is connecting Carolinians and building digital equity. 2023 was a year of milestones: 20 years in operation, 53,000 computers given to individuals in 84 counties in North Carolina plus a few in South Carolina, more than 10,500 people educated in our computer class and STEAM afterschool and camps, 10+ communities benefiting from our Community Technology Instruction program, 2.3 million pounds of e-waste diverted from landfills, and a Platinum rating from Candid/Guidestar and a 90+ rating from Charity Navigator.