The Doe Fund Receives $50,000 from Sterling National Bank for Computer Programs

The Bronx, NY— The Doe Fund received a $50,000 donation from Sterling National Bank, which will go to supporting our computer skills classes. A key component of Ready, Willing & Able‘s career training program, these classes provide basic computer literacy training to people who have experienced homelessness and incarceration.

Learning computer skills is essential to addressing the stark digital divide that often bars marginalized populations from gainful employment—especially as job applications, interviews, and work itself have shifted online over the past year.

The donation will also provide crucial upgrades to our digital infrastructure, including new desktops and laptops in computer labs, tablets for trainees in its Culinary Arts career track and Community Improvement Project, GPSes for drivers in its Transportation career track, and a new digital infrastructure for security staff.

“Sterling National Bank has been the ideal partner. Their support ensures at this incredibly timely moment that the people we serve are successful in the post-pandemic workforce, and can build brighter futures for themselves and their children. Work works, and Sterling National Bank understands that,” said The Doe Fund President Harriet Karr-McDonald.

The announcement was made at The Doe Fund’s soon-to-be-completed Joseph A. Muller Residence in the Bronx, for which Sterling National Bank was a significant funder. Located at the site of a former Army Reserve center that constructed gyroscopes for torpedos and missiles, the Muller Residence will provide 90 units of affordable and supportive housing, with 54 specifically for veterans experiencing hardship.