[1] In 2005, the student-volunteers lobbied members of the Indiana General Assembly, resulting in the passage of House Concurrent Resolution 85, honoring the program.
In 2006, Net Literacy received the Mother Teresa Kindness Award from the National Caring Institute and was recognized as the “Citizen of the Year” by Topics and several other Gannett Company newspapers[which?].
The group has been endorsed by or partnered with over 400 organizations, including the Techpoint Foundation, the Indiana Recycling Coalition, the US Internet Industry Association, the AARP, the Urban League, the Indiana Association of Student Councils, Purdue University, the Verizon Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the United Way of America, Bright House Networks, the Corporation for Education Technology, the Indiana Department of Education, and numerous school districts.
a filing to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission naming Net Literacy’s model as their preferred approach to reducing the digital divide in the United States.
[2] Net Literacy was selected by the European Union Study on Digital Inclusion as one of the 91 most promising good practice initiatives based upon an investigation of 32 countries including the EU Member States, the United States, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and India.
The main categories of the curriculum include Internet predators, adult content, online safety and netiquette.
Volunteer high school students are provided with training materials to conduct classes for their younger peers in the presence of their parents.
It also includes 20 original financial literacy videos that served as a pilot to test the feasibility of the project.
As an example, during a Lilly Endowment summer program, 18 student volunteers built websites for 20 nonprofits as a community service, many of which could not have otherwise been able to afford an online presence.