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Use your vacation to do good in exotic locations

Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:54:07 -0700

Kids on Computers is planning a trip to the Huajuapan de Leon, Mexico area in June. If you can, please join us! If you can’t, please consider donating to help the labs we’ll be working on.

Most of us will be going down for a week or so. There are travel stipends available for those willing to spend a month helping in the area.

**What could I possibly do to help? **I ask myself this every time I go. Especially since I usually drag my kids along. Here are the things you can help with.

Kids on Computers sets up more labs in schools

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:41:31 -0700

[caption id=“attachment_1686” align=“alignleft” width=“300” caption=“Sewing at girls’ school in Santo Domingo, Oaxaca. Photo by Thomas Peters.”][/caption]

Kids on Computers folks have been busy, especially Hermes and Thomas and others in Oaxaca. In the past few months we’ve set up labs in a school for kids with disabilities and a boarding school for girls - both in small towns in Oaxaca, Mexico.

The lab for the kids with disabilities will also help their parents who will now be able to do research on the web both on their kids’ health and also on government resources that might be available.

Kids on Computers is officially a 501(c)(3)!

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:37:32 -0700

I got back from GUADEC and was ecstatic to find a letter from the IRS saying that Kids on Computers is officially a US federal 501(c)(3) organization!!!

It’s retroactive to February 25, 2009. (We have been a Colorado nonprofit since our start but this gives us federal status.)

Having 501(c)(3) status will enable us to qualify for more grants and programs targeted at nonprofit organizations. It also helps establish people’s trust (they know you are doing a public good) and enables some people to deduct their donation from the money they pay taxes on. Many thanks to Serena Robb who filled out all the paperwork for us! It was her first time filling out a 501(c)(3) federal application and she did a lot of research to make sure she got it right.