Computers for Charity

Links to organizations who we've helped directly or indirectly through Computers for Charity.

• Qimo for Kids www.qimo4kids.com/ Qimo is a desktop operating system designed for kids. Based on the open source Ubuntu Linux desktop, Qimo comes pre-installed with educational games for children aged 3 and up. Qimo's interface has been designed to be intuitive and easy to use, providing large icons for all installed games, so that even the youngest users have no trouble selecting the activity they want. Posted at 8:57am on Sun, Jul 26 2009

• Turning Point United Methodist Church www.turningpointbg.org/ Turning Point United Methodist Church is a place of worship, community and purpose. We are a new church where people are known and loved, families are strengthened and supported, and children learn how much God loves them. Posted at 9:38am on Sun, Jul 26 2009

• The Sensory Playroom www.thesensoryplayroom.com/ The Purpose of The Sensory Playroom and Autism Family Resource Center, Inc. is to provide advocacy , educational, recreational and rehabilitative resources to children with autism and the families of such children, and to engage in such other activities as are permissable for nonprofit corporations organized under the laws of Ohio and as are consistent with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Posted at 8:58am on Sun, Jul 26 2009

• Global Connections www.globalconnections-bg.org/ Global Connections is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization in Bowling Green comprised of various churches and ministry organizations that are made up of volunteers who care deeply about the well-being, success, and safety of the international community in Bowling Green. Posted at 8:59am on Sun, Jul 26 2009

• Toledo Islamic Academy www.tiaus.net/tiaus/ Toledo Islamic Academy is about excellence, and that is what we work towards, day in and day out. We are committed to meeting the individualized needs of our students, challenging them all the way to develop well-rounded students who succeed in this life and in the hereafter. Posted at 9:31am on Sun, Jul 26 2009

• Ohio Relay for Life relay.acsevents.org/site/PageServer?pagename=RFL_FY09_OH_DivisionSpecificPage As the American Cancer Society Relay For Life marks 25 years of bringing hope to communities nationwide, volunteers from all over the world have an opportunity to celebrate the progress we Posted at 9:07am on Sun, Jul 26 2009

• The Healing Feild colonialflagfoundation.org/ The Healing Field program started out as a way to commemorate the lives of those lost to us on September 11, 2001. Since the first Healing Field display in 2002, hundreds of communities across America have hosted a Healing Field or Fields of Honor to raise money and awareness for a growing array of causes. Posted at 9:14am on Sun, Jul 26 2009

• Ohio's FASD Initiative www.notasingledrop.org/ NotASingleDrop.org is Ohio's web site about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). FASD refers to conditions such as fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), fetal alcohol effects (FAE), alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND), and alcohol-related birth defects (ARBD). Posted at 9:17am on Sun, Jul 26 2009

• Balay San Columbano Foundation. www.balaysancolumbano.net/ The purpose of the Foundation is to provide safe shelter, food, clothing and education to needy young people who come from a variety of family backgrounds. Some of the young people have been rescued off the street, some from abusive alcoholic homes. Others come from desperately poor families. This Web Site provides you with a short life history of each young person now enrolled in the Balay San Columbano along with a picture of that young person. Posted at 9:36am on Sun, Jul 26 2009

• BG Cafe groups.yahoo.com/group/BGcafe/ WELCOME to the BGcafe, for all Wood County Ohio Residents and other Local Communities!! The BEST PLACE to BUY , SELL , TRADE , RECYCLE , & SHARE with others in your local community!! Posted at 6:46pm on Fri, Jul 31 2009

Other places you can turn to for help if you need a computer or need to find a place to donate or recycle one.

• Computers for Communities computers4communities.org/Html/Beta/ Computers for Communities is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. Our goal is to help groups of people in all states start their own local CFC - to take computers from their community, refurbish them and redistribute them, with training, to the needy in their own community. Posted at 7:55am on Sun, Aug 16 2009

• Free Geek www.freegeek.org/ As a non-profit community organization that recycles and refurbishes used technology, Free Geek happily provides computers, education, and job skills training to volunteers in exchange for their service. Posted at 7:58am on Sun, Aug 16 2009

• Computers with Causes www.computerswithcauses.org/ Computer Donation and Laptop donations benefit Computers with Causes charity organization in the United States. Our charity Computer Donation program participates in a zero-waste recycling program. New and used Computer Donations appreciated. All charity Computer Donations are tax deductible and support wonderful charitable causes! Posted at 8:01am on Sun, Aug 16 2009

• Earth 911 earth911.com/ Earth911.com is your one-stop shop for all you need to know about reducing your impact, reusing what you Posted at 8:09am on Sun, Aug 16 2009

• Recycles.org www.recycles.org/ Our free nationwide nonprofit exchange network is focused on assisting local teachers, technicians, schools, churches, and nonprofit groups interested in recycling and reusing computers, laptops, office, and school equipment. Posted at 8:12am on Sun, Aug 16 2009