APCUG Community Service Campaign Kickoff

Hewie Poplock and Hank Feinberg

July 17, 2011

A few words from Hewie Poplock.Community Services Chairman

APCUG Director

“What is the New APCUG going to look like?” Kathy Jacobs Presidents Message July, 2011 Reports

“ How often does your club reach outto the rest of your community to

find out what they need?”

APCUG• 250 + Active User Groups Nationally

• Many in major metropolitan areas. Grassroots level into more than 75% of America geographically

• Potential total number of volunteers

50-100 members per group= 12,500 volunteers100 members per group = 25,000

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National Strategic Alliance Partnership

&

“Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do

something.“

~Author Unknown

Types of Community Service for User Groups (Use of time)

Active – Physical

• Picking up computers• Refurbishing• Discarding electronic

waste• Delivering computer

Systems (optional)• Installing a network• Repairing computers

Active – Non Physical

• Making phone calls• Writing letters and e-mails• Writing articles• Teaching a class• Giving a webinar• Making community

presentations • Keeping contact with shut

ins

Reasons for DoingCommunity Service

“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.” Buddha

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill

We make it easy to set up a program

of community service at you user group.

• Give you pre-written templates of promotional releases, letters and news letter columns.

• Check lists to help start your program.• NCF provides an on line database for your user

groups listing of its services and equipment needs as a Cristina Community Partner.

• 2,000 Cristina partners on a geographically sortable list online for you to work with in your local community.

• You don’t have to touch or refurbish a computer.

What you need to check in your community

1. Local laws on receiving computer donations from the government

2. Local solid/hazardous waste pick up and or drop off

3. Where does e-waste wind up4. How much e- waste is generated

annually ( Rockland County over 150 tons of electronics alone)

5. Public education of proper disposal

Check the laws in your community

Find out about your environmental laws regulating the disposal ( Sale ) of e-waste

A. Local Laws B. State laws

GoogleList AgenciesContact elected representatives

C. Federal laws EPAGSA

Change in New York State Law

Promotional Tools for your User Group

PR Releases for Newspapers', Radio Stations, Community News

Time Lines and promotional ideasLetter templates

Announcing to your membersSend to your government officialsSend to your local school systemsSend to large and small corporationsSend to local businesses announcement and requestsSend to other Non profit’sSend to potential community partner’s in need

How the Program Workson NCF Community Partner

Level

For Donor using the Cristina Partners Network enables them to:

• Experience the ease of NCF’s automated donation process• Search for local NCF pre-approved partners via state, city or zip code• Learn about the missions and services of the identified NCF partners• Determine if their donation meets selected partner’s needs• Select the local partner of their choice and complete the online Donor Submission Form (DSF)• Receive a donation acknowledgement letter for tax purposes• Take pride that their donation will make a significant impact on the lives of persons in need.

1. Helps promote your club throughout your community

2. Brings in new members

3. Interfaces your club with other organizations Great PR

4. Activates old members into action

5. Does lot’s of good within your community

6. Changes the focus of your club

7. Gives back to the community and those in need

8. Helps change peoples lives

9. Makes you the “Go To” experts in your community for technology and “green” environmental issues

10. Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. ~Mohammed Ali

Hank’s Top Ten List of Why User Groups Should do Community

Service

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its

heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of

each honest worker.

~Helen Keller

NCF Cristina Partners Program

A program designed to make it easy to implement Community Service

nationally.

Become a Cristina Network Community ( Grass Roots) Partner

Vint Cerf, Co - founder of the Internet

The National Cristina Foundation's

programs bring connection and self-expression to people

too long isolated from the world. Here's to NCF's own longlife!

Meet Cristina McMahon

In 1983, I was a student in the Yonkers Public School System and that was where I met Dr. Yvette Marrin. In our class at school 29 I was not the only student who had trouble writing because there were lots of other students who were having the same trouble I had. It was hard writing things down and keeping my thoughts on the paper as I have Cerebral Palsy.

Co Founders of NCFDavid Bruce McMahon and Yvette Marrin

A few words from Bud Rizer

Harry (Bud) Rizer, Ed.D.Executive Director

National Cristina Foundation

Donate Today!You have the power to increase the untapped potential of people who have special needs.

National Cristina Foundation and its grassroots partners accept donations from

individuals and corporations alike.

Some recipients of computers through National Cristina Foundation

Demo of Cristina Partners Relation Database Website

A few of the many recent requests received at NCF

elias lopez writes...

am 8 and using my moms email.

I seen you on Tv the other day.

I am disabled and having a hard time doing my

homework and need a computer to use.

Is there any place I might go to? We were

recently homeless and still very poor and have

alot ideas for doing important socaily aware

comicbook and educational games.

Can you help me?

thank you even if you cant

eylias

Contact Hewie Poplock or Hank Feinberg

for more informationHewie Poplock

(hpoplock@apcug.org)

Hank Feinberg (hank@pcrenew.org

845-352-7111)www.cristina.org www.apcug.org

Message: Dear sir/madam,

I'm a 27 year old young man who has been blind for four

years and is currently striving to complete my online courses

using a public computer as I don't have one of my own. I was

kindly asking for assistance in acquiring a personal computer

workstation comprising of a PC, printer and scanner as it is a

great necessity for through my personal experiences in the

last four years had a fire ignite in me to come up with life

changeing ideas. I'm currently working towards establishing

a social educational project in computer literacy to benefit the

blind and visually impairedpeople in Zim, aiming to

substancially draw closer to eliviate poverty and establish

social, financial, and professional independence.

Looking forward to your compassionate responce.

Yohanna at disability resource center writes...

Hello I have a consumer I am transitioning out of

a nursing home he has a engineering type

background and suffered a stroke and was

instiutionalized. Since then he has come back

and will be going home and his dream is to gain

some of his technical awareness etc Do you

donate to families alone ?or just agencies?

Please, I don't know if your organization can assist

me, but I have a student who is learning disabled in

reading and writing that would greatly benefit from a

computer so that it would make his life better @ home

and school. He is in the fifth grade and his family is

currenlty suffering economically. Please let me know if

you can help.

Sincerely,

Debbie Nunley

School Psychologist

St. James, White Oak

6111 Cheviot Road

Cincinnati, Ohio 45247

Identify Donee’s

IndividualsIn financial needDisabledShut insSeniorsReturning Veterans

CharitiesNon ProfitsCenters : Youth, Seniors