The Red Hook Initiative has a few interesting projects in their neighborhood in Brooklyn. I have casually followed them since Sandy and am very impressed.

One project was to setup a mesh wifi network and they made a 'digital stewards' program so the kids and young adults in the neighborhood could learn how to maintain and troubleshoot the hardware and software.

The program seems to have legs

http://rhidigitalstewards.wordpress.com/who-we-are/