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Dayton Ohio, NPA Chapter Community Service Efforts
Dayton, Ohio Chapter of NPA (DaNPA - www.danpa.org) members this
month volunteered 2 days of their time over a weekend to assist a local
charity, The Miami Valley Women's Center (MVWC) - by installing network cabling
for this non-profit organization.
DaNPA member, Jim Redman and his employer Contingent Network Solutions donated
the cabling, tools and equipment to complete this job. Other DaNPA members also
assisted in crawling through the attic, fishing cables through walls, pulling
and terminating cables for this effort. DaNPA has also been instrumental
recently in helping the MVWC save thousands of dollars in purchasing software.
We were able to guide the MVWC to purchase their software through Techsoup.org
in which the center was able to purchase $25,000 worth of software for less
than $1000.
DaNPA also assisted in helping MVWC aquire an IBM e-server X226 through a grant
program from IBM and we will soon be installing and migrating them to Microsoft
Small Business Server 2003.
This is a job that they could not have afforded without our help, and they are
very grateful for your efforts. Thank you DaNPA for reaching out in this
community service effort.
How you can help:
The Women's Center is still in need of a 24 port 100 megabit switch, a
Macintosh G4 Computer, 5 DDS-4 backup tapes, additional 1.5 Gig of memory and
(2) 73 GB SCSI Raid Hard Disks for IBM e-server X226.
If you or your company have an interest in making a tax deductable donation to
this cause, please contact 6MCQP.5nAsgW@MS5ND.org. This is a 501c3 Charity.
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