Contributions Include $200,000 Donation to Support Program Encouraging
                Minority Students to Apply to U.C. Berkeley

    SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T)
today announced more than $1.2 million in contributions to support
education and technology initiatives in communities across the San
Francisco Bay Area. Contributions include more than $1 million in grants
from the AT&T Foundation, the corporate philanthropy organization of AT&T
Inc.
    The funding also includes a two-year $200,000 contribution to Stiles
Hall, an organization based in Berkeley that works to increase the number
of African-American, Latino and Native American students applying for and
securing admission to the University of California, Berkeley.
    "In today's competitive marketplace, higher education is increasingly
important in preparing young people for success in the workforce," said
Sylvia Samano, AT&T vice president, External Affairs in the Bay Area. "I'm
proud that funding from AT&T will help minority students apply to such a
prestigious university and give them an educational experience that will
benefit them for the rest of their lives."
    The funds for Stiles Hall will be used to support Experience Berkeley,
a program that brings high-achieving minority high school and community
college students from around the state to the University of California,
Berkeley for a three-day residential college experience. While on campus,
the students live in the residence halls and are introduced to college life
by attending classes and workshops on test-taking and essay-writing, and
they are mentored through the application process.
    Throughout the next two years, Experience Berkeley will serve 240
African-American, Latino and Native American students, with a goal of
substantially increasing the number of high school and community college
students admitted to and graduating from the University of California,
Berkeley.
    "Thanks to the generous support of private companies such as AT&T,
Stiles Hall is able to encourage some of the most outstanding
African-American, Latino and Native American student leaders from across
the state to apply to and attend U.C. Berkeley," said David Stark, general
director of Stiles Hall.
    Bay Area philanthropy announced today also includes more than $500,000
in AT&T Excelerator technology grants, which will be provided to 31
organizations throughout the Bay Area. A program of the AT&T Foundation,
the grants are designed to help strengthen underserved communities. These
include:
    -- An $11,000 grant to the East Bay Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation
       to fund the purchase of Web-based case management software to improve
       the administration of its programs for underserved Latino communities.
    -- A $25,000 grant to the Filipino-American Development Foundation in San
       Francisco to support Internet access and computer classes for
       underserved youth and adults. The classes teach basic computer literacy
       and Internet research and provide job-readiness assistance.
    -- A $22,000 grant to the Council on Aging Silicon Valley, which will
       support the purchase of computers and satellite Internet service for a
       mobile services vehicle that will bring a variety of services to
       members and their caretakers.
    -- A $25,000 grant to Women's Intercultural Network to support an
       expansion of its Web site and an upgrade to the e-mail system to help
       serve more clients and provide an electronic meeting place for
       underserved women.
    The AT&T Excelerator program helps nonprofit organizations integrate
technology into their operations and community outreach. The program also
places technology tools in the hands of the underserved populations that
the nonprofits work with in order to provide resources such as education
programs, Internet access, computer training and job-skills development.
    Since 2002, the AT&T Excelerator program has provided more than 2,500
technology grants -- totaling more than $47.8 million -- to organizations
across the country. In 2007, AT&T has awarded $9 million in Excelerator
technology grants to 680 nonprofit organizations across the country.
    AT&T today also announced a $500,000 grant to Mathematics, Engineering,
Science Achievement (MESA), a statewide program administered by the Bay
Area-based University of California Office of the President. The second
installment of a three-year $1.5 million commitment, the AT&T grant helps
the MESA program reach and support educationally disadvantaged students who
enter math, science and engineering careers.