WHAT we do
Project Description:
Refurbishing computers, and giving them to schools, churches, non-profit organizations,
Senior Citizen Centers,
Tulsa Housing Authority facilities, and
HUD Section 8 facilities.
We have been refurbishing computers for seven years (the last two of which
were under the HelpingTulsa name).
As http://helpingtulsa.org indicates,
during the last two years
we have refurbished 957 computers. These computers have one of three sets of application
software installed on them: Bible, Senior, and Children.
See http://www.helpingtulsa.org/images/
to see what is in each set of application software.
How we will use award money:
Monetary award would be used to cover purchases of items not provided when companies donate
computers to be refurbished. For example some remove hard drives, or fail to provide mice
and power cables. We would also like to purchase software that will completely destroy
all information on a hard drive, so we can provide that software to major donors in hope
that they will give us their old hard drives, and we would like to fund the expense of
a mailing to encourage major corporations to donate their old computers to our project.
Supporting Documentation:
See the http://helpingtulsa.org website.
Note that we have monthly entries in which we document how many machines were distributed
that month and where they went, and we also include entries showing photos illustrating
how the distributed computers are being used.
HOW we do what we do
This is documentation on all of the
procedures we use in our Computer Refurbishing project, including sources for all
of the programs we use, and procedures on how each of the tools we have developed can
be constructed. There is even an offer to
Generate an Image Machine HD
for Other Projects
All of the files describing how we Refurbish Computers should be available by
following the first link, but to make things easier on the Jerry Awards judges
I am listing some of the main subfiles in this site:
