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Older hands and younger hands resting together on a laptop keyboard, bathed in warm window light
Est. March 14, 2019 · Westside Community Church

The worldjust gotbigger.

Bridge puts refurbished laptops and patient teachers into the hands of neighbors who've been waiting at the edge of the digital world.

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"My daughter set up the laptop on the kitchen table and said, 'Mama, the world just got bigger.'"
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Rosa M.

Workshop participant, Spring 2023

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743 laptops deliveredEst. March 14, 201912 dusty computersOne church basementFirst workshop: 7 attendees38 neighborhoods reachedEvery seat still warm743 laptops deliveredEst. March 14, 201912 dusty computersOne church basementFirst workshop: 7 attendees38 neighborhoods reachedEvery seat still warm
Origin Story

Every big thing starts
very, very small.

This is the community journal. The pages below are the ones we keep coming back to.

March 14, 2019The beginning

Twelve dusty laptops in a church basement.

A retired engineer named Harold showed up with a minivan full of computers donated by a downtown law firm. Nobody expected more than a dozen people. Thirty-one came. They sat on folding chairs and passed a single mouse around.

Folding chairs arranged in a circle in a church basement with warm overhead lighting
March 14, 2019
June 2019First breakthrough

Gloria cried on a Zoom call for twelve minutes.

She hadn't seen her granddaughter in Ecuador in four years. The call dropped twice. She didn't care. She sat in the library's quiet room with the laptop balanced on a stack of dictionaries, saying "I can see you, mija. I can actually see you."

"I can see you, mija. I can actually see you."

— Gloria, participant
Elderly woman with warm smile looking at a laptop screen in a library setting
June 2019
September 2021First acceptance letter

DeShawn typed his college essay on a Foundation laptop.

He'd been writing his UC application on a cracked phone screen, saving drafts as text messages to himself. His school counselor, Ms. Reyes, signed him up for a Saturday session. He got into UC Davis. He brought the acceptance email to show Harold.

Young man concentrating on a laptop at a library table, notes spread around him
September 2021
Who Shows Up

The room is always
full of people
with something to teach.

Librarians stretching thin budgets. Counselors in Title I schools. Retired engineers who show up every Saturday. Parents who deserve more than a cracked phone screen.

African American woman librarian in professional attire smiling warmly in front of bookshelves

"I stretch every dollar until it apologizes. Bridge gave us twelve laptops for the digital literacy shelf. That's twelve families."

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Ms. Patricia Okafor

Public Librarian · Eastside Branch

Older white man with glasses sitting at a table helping a student with a laptop, warm classroom light

"I teach basic email. Every Saturday. It's the best job I've ever had."

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Harold Bergstrom

Retired Engineer · Saturday Volunteer

Latina woman school counselor in a bright office with student artwork on the walls

"I have 380 students. Every single one of them deserves a real keyboard."

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Ms. Adriana Reyes

School Counselor · Jefferson High — Title I

Black woman in her 30s smiling confidently in front of a window, natural light

"I was filing job applications on a cracked screen at the laundromat. Now I have a laptop and an interview next Tuesday."

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Kezia Mwangi

Single Parent · Workshop Participant

"This isn't charity. It's infrastructure. The same way we built roads so people could get to work, we're building digital access so people can exist in the world."
— Harold Bergstrom, Co-founder & Saturday Volunteer
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Laptops delivered

and counting

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Neighborhoods reached

across the county

0K+

Workshop hours taught

since 2019

0%

Of participants found work

within 90 days

The accumulation

Each small story stacks.
Until you understand.

A grandmother who can see her grandchild's face. A teenager whose essay gets read. A parent who walks into a job interview instead of a laundromat. These aren't outcomes. They're the point.

"DeShawn got into UC Davis. He brought the acceptance email to show Harold."

September 2021

First college acceptance

You're already welcome

The seat has always
been yours.

The next workshop is Saturday, March 21st, 10am–1pm at Westside Community Church. Coffee is free. So is the Wi-Fi. It reaches all the way to the back fence.

Date

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Time

10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Location

Westside Community Church, Room 4

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