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37 people are interested
Computer Refurbishing Shop Assistant
ORGANIZATION: Connecting for Good
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37 people are interested
Sharpen your computer tech skills and help the needy in your community!
We collect used computer equipment to create refurbished PCs senior citizens, inner city students and low income families. Who knows? If by placing an affordable Internet-connected PC in the hands of a teenager living in a housing project, you might have just launched the career of the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs!
Our staff, interns and volunteers take used desktops and laptops and create high quality, Internet ready PCs. As a participant in the Microsoft Registered Refurbisher Program, a software grants program allows us to provide these computers to those who complete our free digital life skills classes and meet income qualifications.
Every computer that comes out of our shop has a fully registered copy of the Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft Office is also available. We work with Macintosh and Linux computers, as well. We follow a strict set of data destruction standards that ensure the confidentiality of the information on the donated computers we receive. What we can’t use, we send out to certified recycling organizations so nothing ends up in a landfill.
More opportunities with Connecting for Good
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Connecting for Good
Location:
3210 Michigan Ave, Kansas City, MO 64109, US
Mission Statement
Like Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, Connecting For Good devotes itself to training low-income residents to develop digital Life Skills, Education Skills, and Career Skills, and also provides the technology tools to help these skills blossom in a digital world.
Description
Connecting for Good is a nonprofit organization has been bridging the Digital Divide since 2011 with wireless networks, low cost refurbished PCs and digital life skills training.
Our core values are:
Internet connectivity equals opportunity . It is an absolute necessity in order to fully participate as a productive citizen in a digital society.
Education is the number one thing that lifts people from poverty . In a digital society it is impossible to pursue a quality education without access to the Internet.
- In-home Internet access is as essential as any modern utility; like phone service, electricity and running water.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Connecting for Good2006 N 3rd StreetKansas City, KS 66101
DATE POSTED
November 24, 2015
SKILLS
- Google Apps
- Salesforce
- Basic Computer Skills
- PC Platform
- IT Help Desk
- Network Administration
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- Flexible. Shop is open business hours M-S
- Able to life at least 30 lbs. Willing to learn,