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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005Thank you, New Hope Fellowship (Brooklyn, NY), for generously receiving a $20,000 offering to support Community Solutions’ work with Somebody Cares America on Sunday! The funds will be used to ship ten tractor trailer “care packages” from Minnesota to Somebody Cares staging areas in the following areas: Houston, TX Austin, TX San Antonio, TX Beaumont, [...]
Mac users – help wanted
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005Xcel is picking up 6 G3s this afternoon that were donated to one of our youth centers. The problem: empty harddrives. Any tips for accessing free Mac software licenses?
I need a new laptop
Monday, July 18th, 2005p>Rudy and Bob (not to mention CoCo, Matt, and dozens of others) are working me over to get a Mac. It’s not a hard sell, actually. My first meaningful computer experiences were all on Macs, circa. 1985, and I preferred using Macs all the way through law school. But $$$ realities (the lack thereof) have [...]
Xcel Summer
Thursday, June 30th, 2005Xcel Summer 2005 = another opportunity to be resourceful. Lack of cash + abundance of volunteer interns = program innovations, including sports camp, architecture classes and more. Launch date: July 5. Note: Generation Xcel is still receiving donations towards the matching grant challenge presented by our loaves and fish donor from earlier this month. Join [...]
This is the deal that just went right
Thursday, June 16th, 2005Miracles always come from unexpected places. On Tuesday night, for example, a friend and his wife wanted to present me with a financial gift for Generation Xcel. First they shared their story. Both husband and wife are LES lifers, born and raised. He and his five brothers were thugs, running a wholesale drug business that [...]
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