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NEWS RELEASE: Technology Santa Comes To Desert Cities Schools PRESS ADVISORY: Technology Heroes 2007 Tribute Tech Tools For Schools Awards IMMEDIATE
RELEASE WHAT:
Presentation of 20 computers to be distributed between the 3 libraries
and 5 WHEN: Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 12:00 noon WHERE: Browne Child Development Center on exness demo account Camp Pendleton (For Media Clearance and Directions contact Victoria Carlborg at 760/725-6496, Camp Pendleton’s Media Specialist.) WHO: Donated through the Technology Training Foundation of America (TTFA), a statewide 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the digital divide through free donations of high-quality computers and peripherals through its Computer Refurbishing Program. The program also provides hands-on computer training for state and federal inmates and the opportunity to exness demo account mt4 give back to communities useful technology, saving California taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Corporate sponsor: Through the generous corporate sponsorship of Wells Fargo Foundation, TTFA is able to make this computer donation possible. Attendance at the presentation will include representatives from the Technology Training Foundation, Camp Pendleton’s Child Development Centers and Libraries, Well’s Fargo Foundation, and elected officials from the north county area. WHY: To provide needed technology giving the military families the ability to email their loved ones who are away serving our Country and to give the children of our Marine families access to the necessary tools to gain skills that will allow them to compete in our technological world. BACKGROUND: For more than four years, TTFA has given refurbished computers to San Diego County area school children non-profit organizations and programs in need. Private industries, state exness.net.in/demo-account and federal agencies and individual donors provide computer equipment to the program. They are then refurbished by one of TTFA’s computer refurbishing partner programs. The computers that can be brought up to technology standards to meet the needs of the recipients are donated free of charge. Equipment that cannot be brought up to minimum technology standards is recycled through one of TTFA’s recycling partners, keeping it out of our already over-crowded landfills. TTFA has donated over 5,000 computers and has kept over a million and a half pounds of e-waste out of our landfills. ....................................................................................................... February
19,2003 MEDIA
ADVISORY WHAT:
The Technology Training Foundation of America will give away 30
Pentium II and greater multi-media computers that have been refurbished
and upgraded, to Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Oceanside,
CA. November
15, 2002 WHEN: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 11 a.m. WHERE: Edward Kemble Elementary School, 7495 29th Street in Sacramento. WHO: The Department of Corrections and the Technology Training Foundation of America (TTFA), a statewide non-profit organization, have partnered to bridge the digital divide by providing high-quality computers and peripherals free of charge to California public schools. The donated computers are refurbished through the Department of Corrections' Computer Refurbishing Program, providing hands-on computer training for state prison inmates and an opportunity for them to give useful technology to public schools, saving schools and taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Nissan North America, Raley's supermarkets, and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control donated retired computers for this project. Representatives from TTFA, the Department of Corrections, equipment donor companies, the school districts receiving the donated computers and elected representatives will be at the presentation. BACKGROUND For
more than three years, TTFA and the California Department of Corrections
have joined in a cooperative effort to give refurbished computers
to California school children. Private industries, state agencies
and individual donors provide computer equipment. They are then
refurbished by inmates in the Department of Corrections' Computer
Refurbishing Program. The computers that can be brought up to school
district technology standards are donated free of charge to schools
throughout the state. Through computer donation partnerships, the
Department of Corrections has helped place more than 88,000 computers
into public schools statewide since 1994 at no cost to the recipients.
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