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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RE: Wow
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!
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Sounds like your a stupid commenter!!!!!!
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When you have a Clie shoved up your mouth, you can only talk in vowels.
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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!
A Good Citizen? Bull-hockey!
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!
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
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"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."
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A conservative Republican.
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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...
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...
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