Microsoft Gift Helps Youth Project

December 14, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

By NICOLE WALLACE

The Microsoft Corporation will donate $12.3-million in cash and $88-million in software to help Boys & Girls Clubs of America bring technology to each of its more than 2,600 clubs.

The Club Tech program grew out of the success of an earlier project, in which Microsoft and Shaquille O’Neal, the basketball player, financed technology centers at 15 Boys & Girls clubs around the country (The Chronicle, August 12, 1999).

As a result of the company’s new commitment, 108 clubs will receive the equipment they need to start technology centers before the end of the year, and the program will launch 500 new technology centers in each of the next five years.

Young people participating in the Club Tech program will be able to collaborate with children at other clubs on writing activities, science projects that rely on online weather and astronomical data, and a national conference on leadership development.

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.