The proceeds from this year's eWEEK Excellence Awards program goes to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.Here at eWEEK, we're focused
on putting technology in perspective for enterprise IT buyers to help them make
decisions about which products, services and computing models will be most
effective for their companies.
Each year, the eWEEK
Excellence Awards allow us to do that with hundreds of products in a very
concentrated effort. But what the program also allows us to do is raise money
for an organization that—among many other things—uses technology to help young
people learn and grow in a safe and positive environment: the Boys & Girls
Clubs of America.
With this year's Excellence
Awards program, eWEEK will continue its tradition of donating the proceeds from
the entry fees to Boys & Girls Clubs of America clubhouses that map to the
offices of eWEEK's parent company, Ziff Davis Enterprise.
The donations—made to
clubhouses in Lawrence, Mass., New York and San Francisco—are made in support of the
use of technology in the clubhouses.
In the past, the donations
have been used to purchase new computers, maintain Web sites and fund the
salary of a technology teacher.
Find out here the winners of this year's eWEEK Excellence Awards.
The origins of the Boys
& Girls Clubs of America go back to 1860, when women in Hartford, Conn., organized the first
clubhouse to provide a safe alternative for boys roaming the streets.
In 1906, several of these
Boys Clubs decided to affiliate—the start of a national movement. In 1931, the
Boys Club Federation of America became Boys Clubs of America, and, in 1990, the
national organization's name was changed to Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Today, the Boys & Girls
Clubs of America organization is still offering a positive environment for
young people, providing programs that address some of the most pressing issues
of the day and teaching kids the skills they need to succeed in life.
Along with programs that
focus on the environment, health, the arts, careers, gang prevention,
leadership development and athletics, the Boys & Girls Clubs provide
technology training and—perhaps more importantly—consistent access to
technology.
(Check out the organization's
YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/bgcastaff.)
