BronxTalk: The Bronx Community Foundation’s New Executive Director
The Bronx Community Foundation held its 2026 Day of Collective Action and Giving, where it distributed 200 new laptops to children who need them and more than $100,000 for organizations that provide important services to the borough. The Bronx Community Foundation’s new Executive Director, Latoya Williams-Belfort, talks on this week’s BronxTalk about the digital divide, […]
Building Opportunity in the Bronx with LaToya Williams-Belfort, Executive Director of The Bronx Community Foundation
LaToya Williams-Belfort, Executive Director of The Bronx Community Foundation, discusses her path into nonprofit leadership and her vision for creating long-term economic opportunity across the Bronx. With more than 20 years of experience advancing equity for historically excluded communities, she shares how the Bronx’s only community foundation is investing directly in grassroots organizations and strengthening […]
Mr Mayor, close NYC’s digital divide
(NY DAILY NEWS) Closing the opportunity gap in New York City means closing the digital divide, which has emerged as a public crisis that’s been treated with Band-Aids for too long — when it’s on the radar at all. The digital divide is a newer concept to many, but its pain and long-term effects, like […]
Bronx Community Foundation hosts first Day of Collective Action
The Bronx Community Foundation held its inaugural Day of Collective Action and Giving in Hunts Point over the weekend. The event brought together more than 250 community members, elected officials and nonprofit leaders to distribute over 200 laptops to local schoolchildren. The Bronx Community Foundation also distributed $45,000 in grants — $7,500 each — to six community-based […]
LaToya Williams-Belfort on Good Day NY
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How Mayor Mamdani can make the Bronx the blueprint for NYC’s affordability revolution
By LaToya Williams-Belfort – Mayor Mamdani’s landslide win in The Bronx was powered by belief, not just in his promises about affordability, but in the collective hopes of a borough that has too often been sidelined. With nearly 30% of our neighbors living under the poverty line, trust is not given lightly here. Mamdani clearly […]
It’s 2025, but a quarter of Bronx families don’t have broadband internet at home
Digital access is no longer optional—it’s essential for education, employment, healthcare, and civic participation. Still, the Bronx faces the largest digital divide in NYC, with a quarter of Bronx families living without broadband internet at home. In an article by the Gothamist, Bronx Community Foundation co-founder, Derrick Lewis captures the urgency: “Everything we do every single […]
Bronx Community Foundation works to close the digital literacy gap
The Bronx Community Foundation is a local organization that’s working to provide digital literacy to residents. It partnered with the nonprofit group “LIFT.” Together, the organizations provide digital literacy courses and laptops to residents who are lacking these resources. “LIFT is amazing. LIFT helped me in a time of need where I needed some extra […]
Bronx Lags in Digital Access and Education, Report Finds
A digital divide is leaving Bronxites behind. A report published Monday by the policy think tank Center for an Urban Future outlines disparities in broadband internet connection, access to internet-connected devices, digital literacy and tech education in the city’s northern-most borough, where there’s less access to tools that are increasingly essential for many career and educational opportunities. It […]
Understanding and Overcoming the Bronx Digital Divide
Consistent access to a computer and high-speed internet are essential to everyday life in New York, and in the Bronx, tens of thousands of residents remain cut off from these basic tools of modern life. Despite important investments in broadband infrastructure and digital skills programs, the gap has only grown wider between the Bronx and […]
AI Wave: Empowering Education and the Community through AI Innovation
