Thursday, March 11, 2021, Ed Dowd, Executive Director of the Mattoon Chamber of Commerce was a guest on 101.3 WMCI. Here is a brief description of what he covered during the interview:
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity who has worked with the Mattoon Chamber on the BIG and Stabilization Grants for local businesses has now created a program to get computers to those in need for their families.
PC’s for People
Through a first-of-its-kind collaboration by the State of Illinois, PCs for People and various community partners, Illinois has launched a statewide network that will receive, refurbish and redistribute used computers to those in need. This initiative responds to the 1.1 million Illinois households currently without computers and aims to bridge the digital divide for those without internet access to help improve connectivity essential for remote learning, work from home, telemedicine, and other requirements of everyday life. To source the network with newly refurbished computer devices, the State of Illinois is working with private and philanthropic partners to build a pipeline for Illinois households in need. For more information, click here.
If your business is interested in donating equipment to this program, PCs for People will accept any and all used computer equipment, redistributing what it can refurbish and recycling what it cannot refurbish. PCs for People is NAID AAA and R2 certified, requiring the non-for-profit to practice the highest standards of information destruction, hard drive sanitization, and environmental computer device recycling along with a zero-landfill policy.
If your entity is undertaking a pc refresh or you know of an entity that is looking to undertake one and would be interested in donating to this program, please contact Kala Lambert, Southeast Region Manager for ILDCEO’s Office of Regional Economic Development at Kala.lambert@illinois.gov, and she will help make the connection to PC’s for People.
Keep up to date at the Mattoon Chamber of Commerce website.
Listen to the complete interview here:
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