[NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update Dec. 5, 2008 and Yearly Report

[Martha Smith]

Dear Robert,
	From all of us who have not been able to help at the centers, please  
accept our deep thanks for all you have done to recirculate our old  
Macs in whatever form you found them.  We will continue to be  
ambassadors to tell the story of all your efforts on behalf of those  
who need a Mac but could not afford one.
	Have a Blessed Holiday Season and the Best of New Years
Martha Smith
On Dec 5, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Robert A. Donaldson wrote:

> Dear Mac friends:
>
> Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Tucker
> Trainor and Dave Sevick for joining me today at the Goodwill Computer
> Recycling Center.
>
> Today, we put another productive year at the Goodwill Computer
> Recycling Center to bed.
>
> We quickly took care of four slot-load DV iMacs in the intake bin,
> then spend the rest of the day preparing keyboards and mice to match
> our inventory of refurbished iMacs. These four iMacs bring our all-
> time total of refurbished Macs to 1,614. These were the last ones
> we'll prepare this year.
>
> We'll be taking off for the holidays and return to begin our third
> year at Goodwill on Friday, January 9, 2009.
>
> In the past three weeks, all of Goodwill ComputerWorks store inventory
> of G3 and G4 Towers, and 700 mhz eMacs were sold in bulk to Cyber
> Depot, a computer store in Youngwood, Westmoreland County (U.S. Route
> 119 & South 4th St. <bigcomputerdlr at aol.com>). You can now find our
> work for sale there in addition to ComputerWorks.
>
> Here's what we've accomplished this year:
>
> We've refurbished 595 Macintoshes in 2008. 449 were at our current
> location at Goodwill on Pittsburgh's South Side; 146 were done at the
> CRC's previous location in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville, now a UPMC
> parking lot.
>
> This compares to 450 Macs in 2007.
>
> Not bad, considering we went from 2,000 square feet in Lawrenceville
> to approximately 450 square feet of work space on the South Side.
>
> To put this in perspective, we had done only 569 Macs before joining
> with Goodwill in March of 2007.
>
> These amazing numbers are due to the continuing dedication of many
> people: Not only the people who show up at Goodwill to help make our
> Macs sing again, but all of you who keep us in your thoughts and tell
> everyone they know where to take a computer for donation or recycling.
> And especially to Charles Firth, whose technical contributions have
> allowed us to erase and re-image hard drives to produce these
> dramatically increased numbers.
>
> The coming year will see new relationships with organizations seeking
> to help people, and Goodwill will be honoring bulk rates to make our
> Macs even more affordable for those people. You'll hear more as this
> gets underway after the New Year.
>
> Please have a joyous holiday season, and thank you all.
>
>
> Robert A. Donaldson
> radonaldson at mac.com
> (H) 412-922-3303
> (M) 412-477-9188
>
>
>
>
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