Handspring Donates Handhelds and Cash

The Handspring Foundation has made cash and product grants to eleven nonprofit organizations. These include $40 thousand donated to various organizations that help under-privileged children. Also, Visor handhelds were donated to groups that help children and others were given to organizations to assist in ecological projects.

"The mission of the Handspring Foundation is to improve communities, and with each round of grants, our cash and product donations are addressing a variety of needs'' said Gisela Bushey, worldwide manager of the Handspring Foundation. "We're delighted to not only support these organizations financially, but also to supply Visors and other products that will help nonprofit organizations achieve their goals.''

Thirty Visor Deluxes were donated to the Miami-Dade County Public Schools for an after-school tutorial program at homeless shelters and schools. The project brings technology to economically deprived students, as well as training, software, technical support and assessment.

The foundation donated 45 Visor Platinums to support DiaBetNet, a project of M.I.T.'s Human Design Group. The mission of the group is to understand how real-time feedback of various physiological parameters can be used to give children with Type 1 Diabetes greater control over the illness. DiaBetNet developed a game for diabetic children to measure their glucose levels using Visor.

A group that performs reconstructive facial surgeries for children in remote places around the world was given 18 Visor Deluxes, Backup Modules and eyemodule2 digital cameras. These will allow the teams to develop a handheld medical charting system, photograph patients for medical records, conduct real-time data collection, and share research and patient information for follow-up care.

As part of its ecological efforts, the Handspring Foundation donated 25 Visor Deluxes to SOS Rhino of Sabah, Borneo to help save the Sumatran Rhinoceros, of which there are only 300 left in the wild. It also gave twenty Visor Deluxes to support the conservation of endangered species, biodiversity, and natural resource management of the Central Andean Forest in Colombia. The handhelds will equip twenty field biologists to perform such tasks as data collection, species registration, population surveys, research the forest's ecology, measure results of biodiversity projects, among many others.

Cash was donated to the Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico; SOS Children's Village of Florida; Earthen Vessels, Cambridge, Mass.; Children Have Rights in Society (CHRIS) Homes, Atlanta, Ga.; the Home of the Innocents, Louisville, Ky.; and Safe Space, New York, N.Y.

The deadline for the next round of grants is February 1, 2002.

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Wow

Coyote67 @ 12/17/2001 12:24:34 PM #
Wow I say. Go Handspring. Having trouble financially and still finding a way to donate. Very nice of them.
ED- Any other handheld companies doing something like this?

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When you have a Clie shoved up your mouth, you can only talk in vowels.
RE: Wow
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/17/2001 12:43:02 PM #
Not to mention, a nice tac write-off

The Grinch

Grinch@aol.com

RE: Wow
Ed @ 12/17/2001 12:52:11 PM #
Well, if you follow the link at the end of the article, you'll see a list of corporate donations to WTC victims, including the $5 million dollars worth of products Palm donated to the eBay Auction for America to benefit the United Way's September 11 fund. That's the largest one I can think of from a handheld company. You can go here to find out more:
www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=2347

Here's more on Handspring's donations to the Red Cross:
www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=2343

Palm Inc. makes regular Palm Educator Pioneer grants to K-12 teachers and their students, which let the teachers incorporate Palms into their lessons. The most recent round donated $2.3 million in handhelds:
www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=2068

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GOOD CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP!

I.M. Anonymous @ 12/17/2001 12:33:30 PM #
Way to go Handspring! This is a wonderful thing to do. This will make me take a serious look at Handspring when I buy my next PDA. Makes Palm look very silly for offering patriotic red/ blue 505s. Handspring appears to let their actions do their talking! Bully!

RE: GOOD CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP!
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/17/2001 12:48:38 PM #
What a stupid comment!!!!!!!

RE: GOOD CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP!
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/17/2001 1:21:26 PM #
What a stupid comment!!!!!!!

Sounds like your a stupid commenter!!!!!!

RE: GOOD CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP!
Coyote67 @ 12/17/2001 3:22:44 PM #
Not really a stupid comment. WHen companies donate something, it gives them press. This is an example of good press. When you really don't know a lot about a product and you are thinking...hmm..visor palm...visor palm, and you see in th news that handspring donated blah blah, it might make you go, ok, visor. Corporate donations are kinda like advertising, except the company probably loses more then it gains.

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Blah

ssummer @ 12/17/2001 1:29:33 PM #
"To Do List:
1 - Save rainforest
2 - Save rhinos"

Now I don't feel too bad about those items that just can't seem to make their way off my to do list...

MSFT gives away the most money to charity!

I.M. Anonymous @ 12/17/2001 1:49:01 PM #
MSFT is THE GREAT Corporate Citizen! They have made many people rich through their successful stock price, and thousands and thousands of new businesses which were created by piggybacking off of MSFT products. Not to mention all of the jobs they created. What a great company. Gates should be praised and NOT villified!!!!!!!!! We need more MSFTs!!!!!!!!

A Good Citizen? Bull-hockey!
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/17/2001 2:42:59 PM #
> They have made many people rich

Think all the psychologists they have made rich with clients driven crazy by Microsoft's rotten operating system.

It's really amazing to hear a company that has been convicted of unfairly using its monopoly power to drive its legitimate competition out of business described as a "great corporate citizen". That's like calling Vlad the Impaler a "people person".

RE: MSFT gives away the most money to charity!
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/17/2001 2:51:23 PM #
"MSFT gives away the most money to charity!"

Well, I would hope so - considering how much money they rake in. Cudos to Handspring for giving to charity, when they aren't even making a profit. - ml

LOL

I.M. Anonymous @ 12/17/2001 3:16:39 PM #
What good is a Visor anyway to a needy person? They will probably pawn it off for some real money....THAT THEY NEED:

"Mommy, I am hungry"

"Baby, go organize your life. You know all we got is these damn glorified calculators from that Armsling company. You wil have to eat when a company gives us some money."

RE: LOL
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/17/2001 3:46:10 PM #
They donated thousands to feed hungry children, as it says right there in the article. So, are you dumb or just a jerk?

RE: LOL
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/17/2001 6:24:46 PM #
These are all marketing tactics. You think HS will go there is nothing for them? They are in a business. Free press!

RE: LOL
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/18/2001 12:23:44 AM #
Hay, if a person donates, you say that he wants to promote himself by free press (sorry, this 'free press' isn't free). If he doesn't donate, you say that he's cold-blooded. Tell me, then, what is good in your eyes?

RE: LOL
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/18/2001 7:36:41 AM #
Really! Say for example, I want to buy a new car. Why wouldn't I buy it from a dealer who I know is a nice guy as opposed to the one who is only interested in lining his pockets? If you believe that their only interest is publicity/advertising, then fine. At least some hungry kids got fed. You may have never experienced it. If you want, try fasting for a week and see what you think about HandSpring. That kind of advertising is OK by me.

A conservative Republican.

RE: LOL
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/18/2001 2:13:32 PM #
I will tell you a solution:

Give money to the charity and shut the f*** up while doing so. Grated, we all LOVE Microsoft but you never, never hear about their donations unless you ask.

You never see: MICROSOFT GIVES 8 MILLION COPIES OF WINDOWS XP TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

We have seen: HANDSPRING GIVES TRE0, 16MB RAM, WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS, THE NEXT BIG THING TO AUCTION FOR CHARITY.

You think Handspring would have done this if they werent able to promote their product? Hell no.

Its self promotion and arrogant.

Oh, I get it...

I.M. Anonymous @ 12/18/2001 2:01:04 PM #
If they can't sell 'em, they might as well give them away...

Can you imagine it? On some dark street alley, two skid row bums are at it....

"I'll trade you a "Neo" for a half pint of "Schnapp's"

"No, way, man... One Neo and an "Edge"...

"How about a Neo, an Edge, and a Visor Deluxe for a gallon of Grain Alcohol and a fifth of Jack Daniels?"...

Oh, well, here is the eventual demise of Handspring...

RE: Oh, I get it...
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/18/2001 2:19:34 PM #
Yep, they have to dig around for free press.

RE: Oh, I get it...
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/19/2001 1:50:05 AM #
You people. You don't see your precious Sony or god forbid Palm comtributing to the community that is earth. Palm should be contributing more because they are all scrooges!

RE: Oh, I get it...
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/19/2001 3:57:00 PM #
Kudos to MS for donating to schools. Doesn't matter it you're a fan of Gates or think he's the Beast. Kids in public schools get some tools to prepare themselves for a career.

RE: Oh, I get it...
I.M. Anonymous @ 12/20/2001 10:39:50 AM #
You people? What are we, the Taliban? "You People?"

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