The Just Willing Foundation a 501c3 organization was founded to assist children and adults in especially low-income areas with new and innovative forms of technology literacy. It is the desire of the Just Willing Foundation to provide this form of Information Technology to all citizens in the New Orleans area particularly. This program was organized and created by Joshua Williams, Jr., who serves as the organizations’ President and CEO.

One of Just Willing Foundation’s aim is to provide low-income young people, particularly 5 to 23 year-olds, and their families in New Orleans with access to computers, training, telecommunications and the Internet. One of the primary goals of the foundation is to provide job training and links to jobs, so each participant will have a strategy for increasing employment opportunities for themselves.

In today’s world, the ability to access and use technology is essential to educational opportunity and economic success. Ensuring that residents of low-income communities have access to the training and technology to fully participate in this new world of work, may determine the strength of our economy, the capacity of our workforce, and the health of our communities.

Unfortunately, in many low-income communities young people have little access to computers and other new technologies, let alone the training to use it. Without access and training many of these young people find themselves shut off from opportunities to develop the knowledge and job skills they so desperately need to succeed.

Louisiana ranks 50th worst among states in its ratio of students to computers, while companies throughout the state have unmet demand for well-educated, computer-literate, skilled workers. Louisiana, with the establishment of a technology park in New Orleans, is now known as a premier developer of new technology, and all Louisianians should have the opportunity to become regular users of the new communications technology being developed in our state.