A nonprofit community network—built neighborhood by neighborhood.
Connect Buffalo is a nonprofit community connectivity initiative bridging the digital divide with reliable infrastructure, student training and mentoring through Digital Navigators, and transparent outcomes residents and partners can trust.
A planning signal for your block. Final service still depends on line of sight and the phase.
- Reliable coreRedundant power + failover
- Local supportStudent training & mentoring
- Public-benefitMilestones + transparency
A nonprofit steward—not a rebranded billboard bundle
Honest contrasts with cable, cellular, hotspots, and satellite—where stewardship and neighborhood pilots differ from typical national plays.
- Stewardship-firstPublic-benefit mandate
- Subsidy pathwaysWhen grants align
- Neighborhood pilotsBlock-by-block rollout
A phased build with clear community milestones
- Fiber backhaul core hardened (power + failover)
- Monitoring + incident playbooks
- Impact reporting baseline
- 3 neighborhoods + community hotspots
- Student Digital Navigator cohort launches
- Pilot telemetry: uptime, MTTR, tickets
- Optimize install playbook + spares strategy
- Partner onboarding (libraries/nonprofits)
- Neighborhood readiness checklist
- Scale to 10 neighborhoods
- Support tiers mature (Tier 1 → Tier 4)
- Community impact report + learning cycle
Take the next step
Check your address, follow the get-connected guide, volunteer, or read how impact, privacy, and freedom show up on the ground.
Coverage
Coverage by rollout phase
Phases expand block by block—check your address above for a planning signal, or preview line of sight to nearby hubs on the interactive Buffalo map.
Tight footprint, maximum learning. Core reliability + repeatable installs.
Replicate the playbook. Onboard more partner sites and mature support tiers.
Scale coverage while keeping uptime and support stable.
Resident voice
What residents are telling us
Pulled from the uploaded survey’s open‑ended responses. This is the lived reality behind the charts.
Support
Fund a mission outcome, not a slogan
Choose a giving path mapped to installs, hotspots, or reliability—every gift supports neighborhood connectivity work in Buffalo.
- Connect householdsCPE kits, onboarding, and stability checks per phase milestone.
- Fund a hotspotAlways-on access at libraries and nonprofit anchor sites.
- Strengthen reliabilitySpares, monitoring, and incident response maturity.
Live campaign progress
Totals from our Givebutter campaign—updated as gifts come in.
Custom partnership scopes available for institutions and anchor funders.
Government & institutionsFor residents
Getting connected should feel simple
Step-by-step guide: address check, costs, launch alerts, and install prep.
Project partners
Local organizations powering the rollout
Community anchors and schools helping recruit households and host pilots.
Ready to connect?
Partnership interest, launch notifications, and general questions on the contact page.