The Boys and Girls Clubs and maybe Big Brothers and Sisters. Quoting Scot Jenkins <scot+tcluggen at thinkunix.net>: > Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > > Well, I'll chime in here. This spring I contacted > > www.worldcomputerexchange.org and asked if they needed any help with their > > organization. They say yes - please start a Minneapolis office. > > Uff-dah... So, I'm the World Computer Exchange (WCE) Minneapolis > > coordinator. So far I've been passively collecting donations - Pentium or > > better, Newer Macs, printers, fax, network equiptment, Montiors that can > > run 110 or 220. I have a few folks at work who help out from time to time > > - I hope to grow the voluneteer list a bit more.... > > > > We also need space! At this point anything other than my porch! Ideal > > space would have electricity, netowrk (!), and would be fork lift > > accessible so that computers ould be palletized and picked up by a > > shipping company. > > <opinion> > > I just looked at the worldcomputerexchange website. It doesn't look > like they repurpose computers here in the United States. With so many > jobs going overseas these days, wouldn't it make sense to try to help > out the underprivileged youth here in this country first, before > shipping equipment outside the US? I have nothing against helping folks > elsewhere in the world, but I think we should start here at home first. > > </opinion> > > Does anyone know of any local organizations taking donations to help > American youth? > > -- > scot > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list