YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — An area non-profit serving to lower-income residents develop into computer-literate is getting a significant enhance from AT&T.

Executives with the telecommunications big offered a ceremonial verify to administrators with the Oak Hill Collaborative value $20,000.

The cash will assist pay the prices of pc training programs and workshops the Collaborative now provides however administrators stated the cash will also be spent in different methods.

“We are able to do issues to enhance the area. We are able to rent folks. We are able to, , go to warren if we wish. We are able to do a variety of issues at the side of different monies, with different folks, with different establishments. We actually are a collaborative,” stated Pat Kerrigan with Oak Hill Collaborative.

The donation is a part of a $2 billion mission by AT&T to assist Individuals enhance their pc expertise whereas additionally upgrading the community with new expertise and tools.

Almost $45 million of that’s being invested simply within the Youngstown space to put in new fiber optic traces that ought to go browsing later this yr.