Red Cross looking for Tech donations..

[Sandman]

The New York American Red Cross is in dire need of technology equipment and services. The field workers and sites have little, if any, means of communication and the central office is processing way too much on completely paper systems. Your help in acquiring these resources would be greatly appreciated.


If you can help, please contact:



Joe Leo, Assistant Director, Business Applications, IT
American Red Cross in Greater New York
phone: 212.875.2409
email: [email protected]
150 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10023


PLEASE NOTE: His email is slammed, so don't resend your messages over and over again.

Following is the list of equipment that the Red Cross needs for its field workers and expanded Emergency Operations Centers. It also needs certified Citrix engineers and Microsoft-certified consultants.


40 IBM computers and laptops (with NICs)
Monitors (with desktops)
Any storage solutions
25 10/100 hubs (8+ Ports)
100 Cat5 cables (All lengths)
50 power strips
Any IBM-compatible memory
Any 3Com wireless NIC cards and LAN products
30 desktop-size UPSs
15 LaserJet printers (HP 1100 or faster) and printer supplies
20 external Zip drives and disks
Any diskettes and R/W CDs
5 external CD burners
5 duplex document scanners
25 extension cords
any colored tie wraps
any Velcro cable wraps
50 Citrix client licenses
12 PCMCIA LAN cards for IBM P20 ThinkPads, preferably 3Com (in addition to those in the new PCs)
50 Microsoft Exchange CALs
35 Microsoft SQL CALs
50 Microsoft Office Professional licenses
15 PC Anywhere licenses
DSL lines
PDAs with wireless capacity and service
Nextel cellphones and service

Thanks in advance for your generous assistance. Any donation will help greatly.

[Jenny]

I HONESTLY hope that places like Microsoft, Hewlitt Packard, Nextel, etc. DONATE those things like the licenses, laser printers, phones (at least, if not service as well), etc. Does anyone else assume or hope they will?

[gear02]

I think (hope so). I saw a report about all these companies donating stuff to OTHER companies who were affected by the bombing. I think Cisco donated $6 million. Another company donated office space to other companies. It's absolutely incredible. I just hope microsoft gives something.

I believe all companies in the US should donate a significant amount. The terrorists were trying to disrupt the economy. It would even make business sense to donate stuff in order to keep the economy from getting horrible. If we can get companies affected back on their feet. It would be great. I would be even more amazing to see the cooperation of all these companies.

[pjh12]

I heard that M$ donated $10 million to relief causes.

[playa]

From: Windows NTBugtraq Mailing List
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Russ
Sent: 14 September 2001 14:56
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Administrivia - New York Red Cross needs tech


Sigh...

In my attempt to help where I can, I put out this story about the NYC
Chapter of the American Red Cross needing tech. The story was published by
TechTV on September 12th.

Sources at the corporate level of the American Red Cross have told me that
they are still looking for the source for the story. They've had no requests
from the NYC Chapter for any sort of computer assistance.

Further, Microsoft have already donated $10 million, $5 million in cash to
the United Way September 11 Fund, and $5 million in software and Microsoft
Consulting Services. They are also matching funds with their employee
donations (like many other companies are).

My apologies folks, seems this story was either published too late, or
wasn't verified by TechTV (and I didn't verify it either, I just assumed it
plausible and believed the TechTV report).

So again, forgive me, I'm struggling to find a way to help.

Cheers,
Russ - NTBugtraq Editor