Cyber center stage: David Bohnett turns his Internet success story into critical support for local GLBT Internet access and other causes.What does a cyber trailblazer do after he's made his marks--and his millions? A whole lot of good, if you're David Bohnett David C. Bohnett (born April 2, 1956 in Chicago Illinois) is a philanthropist and technology entrepreneur. Biography David C. Bohnett is the Chairman of the David Bohnett Foundation,[1] . The David Bohnett Foundation, created with a hefty chunk of the estimated $260 million Bohnett earned when his GeoCities company sold to Yahoo in 1999, has poured $350,000 worth of new technology into its LGBT LGBT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender CyberCenters in 2004 alone. Located in 19 cities, the centers are designed to open up the vast resources of the Internet to gays and lesbians nationwide. "The CyberCenters are especially important to youth, who may not have safe access to technology anywhere else," says Michael Fleming Michael Valentine Fleming (1913 - 1 October 1940) was the son of Valentine Fleming and brother of Ian Fleming and Peter Fleming. He married Letitia Blanche Borthwick, daughter of Hon. Malcolm Algernon Borthwick and Blanche Buckland Gorrie, on 28 July 1934. , the foundation's executive director. "They might be able to go to a local public library or their school, but there's a concern that someone will see the sites they're looking at when they're learning about their sexuality." The foundation is also active in supporting nonprofit groups that work on issues ranging from gay equality to mass transit solutions to handgun control. Other grants announced in 2004 include $150,000 to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, $35,000 for the Sexual Orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. in the News Program at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , and $35,000 to the Service members Legal Defense Network to help defend military service members targeted under "don't ask, don't tell."--Etelka Lehoczky |
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