02-26-2019, 07:13 AM
Bo wrote:
[quote=~Dan]
As I type this, there are 8 15" MacBook Pros, 1 13" Macbook Pro , 1 12" MacBook Air & 3 PC laptops sitting on the floor next to my desk, ready to go to new homes. Laptops are one of our biggest 'sellers'
I also have over a dozen 21.5" & 27" iMacs waiting to go out, along with (get this!) 46 Mac Pros. Those I was very rarely willing to ship (too expensive) though I did send a few to a church down South.
Wow...that sounds like a bounty of macs! I’m so curious as to how this all came to be?
A mere drop in the bucket; since June 1997 (when we started keeping records, we have re-homed 4,112 computers of various pedigrees.
It started out as a service to disabled veterans and just blossomed. We have given computers to various non-profits, libraries, fire depts., senior centers, schools (private & public), etc., etc., etc,.
About 55-60% of our giveaways have gone directly to kids to take home. Our aim was to make sure that very kid had a chance to own their own computer. We tried to make sure we gave away a computer a day.
We've never received any public funding (though we've tried) so it was self-funding, and generous donations from local civic groups that keep us going.
We also were lucky that quite a few local businesses helped us out too; one local trucking company would send a truck with two men to pick up as many as 300 computers at a time.
We are currently on our 4th donated storage and work space ... we are very fortunate to receive that also.