'Computers for Youth' Makes Its 10,000th Computer Donation.BRONX, N.Y. -- Marking its 10,000th family served, Computers for Youth (cfy.org) this week donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. computers to and conducted training for 100 families from Bronx Middle School 219, a milestone in the national educational nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. organization's eight-year history. Parents, sixth graders, teachers and JP Morgan Chase interns  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . gathered at the school this past weekend for CFY Family Learning Workshops, part of the group's "Take IT Home" program, which unites low income students and parents with a free computer-based home learning center, Internet access See how to access the Internet. for a year and access to bi-lingual content online. "We started Computers for Youth in 1999 serving 230 families in the South Bronx, so it is appropriate that we are here today celebrating our 10,000th family," said Elisabeth Stock, founder and president of CFY. "We launched this organization because I was convinced the home holds the greatest untapped potential for improving children's academic and life-long success. Today, through our efforts, we see a direct connection between home computing computing - computer , student engagement and performance." Bronx Middle School 219 was selected for the CFY program through a formal application process, which included a site visit and an interview and meeting the criteria that more than 75 percent of its students are eligible for the federal free or reduced lunch program. CFY focuses on communities of sixth graders to intervene intervene v. to obtain the court's permission to enter into a lawsuit which has already started between other parties and to file a complaint stating the basis for a claim in the existing lawsuit. just as children's disengagement disengagement /dis·en·gage·ment/ (dis?en-gaj´ment) emergence of the fetus from the vaginal canal. dis·en·gage·ment n. from family and school begins. Research shows sixth grade is when parents begin to feel less capable of helping with increasingly complex homework assignments, and when there is the steepest decline in academic achievement. "Computers for Youth has brought our students something they could not otherwise have - access to technology and an opportunity to take advantage of learning not just at school, but extending it into the home," said Dominic Cipollone, Principal of Bronx Middle School 219. "Add to this the integrated parental involvement, and we are engaged in a program that I believe will significantly aid our students' success." CFY receives donations of computers primarily from major corporations, which its technical staff then turns into CFY home learning centers loaded with free Internet access for a year; award-winning educational software in English Language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. Arts, math, science and social studies; tailored Web content; and ongoing tech support. For more information, visit www.cfy.org. |
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