On 8/1/07, ronan <ronan@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
> > Folks:
> >
> > David Meyer mentioned something to me a while back that seemed like a
> > good idea, but might not work too well because we're not incorporated
> > as a non-profit. However, it got me thinking, and I thought of a twist
> > on it.
> >
> > His original idea was to solicit area businesses for their old
> > computers (instead of them dumping them in dumpsters), put Linux on
> > them, and then donate them to schools, etc. The advantage to
> > businesses would be a tax write-off by donating them to a non-profit
> > organization.
> Since his original idea would require us to find a school in which to
> eventually set-up the computers, we could make it work just by changing
> the order of operations:
>
> 1. We find a school willing to work with us, and willing to let us
> set-up a lab using old machines.
> 2. We find businesses willing to donate machines, for a tax write-off.
> 3. The businesses donate the machines directly to the school, and get a
> receipt for the IRS.
> 4. We rehab the machines, either at the school site, or we take them
> away from the school to perform the rehab, but the machines already
> belong to the school.
> 5. We set-up the lab.
>
> The real twist here is that we have to find the school first, instead of
> last.
>
I bet that there would be a bunch of the kids that would like to learn how to
work on those computers, after a bit I would venture that they would be doing
the re-hab bit also. And now you have kids that have something that they
can use to make some money later on, but they have learned how to work
on computers. We just oversee them and make sure it is all done correctly.
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