Connecting people has been AT&T’s business and priority for nearly 150 years and remains our focus in 2025 and beyond.
Over the past year, AT&T launched 10 Connected Learning Centers in New York, providing a free space for community members to access computers, Wi-Fi and other modern devices. These centers were built in collaboration with outstanding community organizations in Mt. Vernon, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem, Buffalo, Rochester, Troy, White Plains, and Schenectady.
In Schenectady, our center at Girls Inc. is equipping K-5 grade girls in the after-school program with state-of-the-art technology, including computers and digital learning tools, to help bridge the digital divide and foster a tech-forward learning environment.
The Connected Learning Center in Brooklyn operated by Good Shepherd Services offers free access to digital resources for youth in the Red Hook community. These tools include access to educational resources such as The Achievery, a free digital learning platform by AT&T, and free digital literacy courses in partnership with the Public Library Association.
Since learning is a lifelong pursuit, our Rochester Connected Learning Center at Cameron Community Ministries is utilized by a wide array of residents, from young students doing homework to teens building their resumes to adults searching and applying for jobs.
As part of our collaboration with Cameron Community Ministries, we were also able to bring the Roadtrip Nation, Making Waves Tour, to Rochester. This nationwide event engaged more than 65 students at Flower City School No. 54 to help local youth explore future career paths and increase their access to digital learning resources.
We’re carrying the energy we built in 2024 into 2025, as we just opened our ninth center on February 6th at the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club. The center at Kips Bay speaks to the strong community relationships we’ve built in launching our Connected Learning Centers, as we’ve frequently collaborated with local Boys & Girls Clubs across the country to house these centers. Now, the new center at Kips Bay marks the second Connected Learning Center opened within a local New York Boys & Girls Club.
On February 28th, we launched our 10th Connected Learning Center at Youth Shelter of Westchester (YSOW) in Mt. Vernon. YSOW is a not-for-profit residential alternative to incarceration for young men ages 16-21, and is an example of the unique and important nonprofit organizations we work with. Each CLC creates their own space for their own particular needs, to ensure their community is able to more effectively take advantage of technology.
And we’re not stopping there. In the coming months, we’re launching 2 more AT&T Connected Learning Centers in Queens, and on Long Island.
Our Connected Learning Centers, along with the many other digital literacy programs we support, are complemented by our extensive device distribution initiative. Whether it’s Win NY, the nation’s largest provider of family shelter and supportive housing, the Shinnecock Nation (Long Island), Youth Shelter of Westchester or the numerous other organizations we work with, these collaborative efforts have helped equip thousands of New Yorkers with laptops.
Since 2021, across the Empire State we’ve:
- Invested more than $2.1 million in organizations and initiatives focused on closing the digital divide
- Provided more than 6,500 laptops to students and families across the state
- Launched a dozen tech labs
- Supported more than 340 digital literacy workshops, and much more
Connecting people in New York and around the globe remains central to what we do. We look forward to continued collaboration with public officials, community organizations and business leaders to ensure more New Yorkers have the digital resources they need to thrive in our connected world.
