Thanks for being a great partner, friend and supporter of NPower Greater DC Region. We are wishing you and yours much peace, love and joy this season.

Pictured left to right: Matthew Coffman, Sheryl Augustine, Francis Johnson, Julie Chapman, Ben Hendricks, Terry Walsh Roberts, Thomas Anderson, Jeff Mates, and Elio Trabal.

Here are a few ideas that are offering a way for you to extend your charitable giving this holiday season.

Changing the Present connects you with more than 1,500 meaningful charitable gifts that change the world. Browse by cause or nonprofit to find the perfect gift for friends or for your own charitable giving.

The GlobalGiving Gift Card (at right) is perfect for that hard-to-shop-for person. Make a donation in their name to over 450 charities on the GlobalGiving site. The card is 100% tax-deductible and 100% guaranteed.

Unicef's Inspired Gifts is an innovative program that allows you to purchase real, lifesaving products to be shipped to over 150 countries and territories around the world.

Finally, Network for Good's Good Cards can be sent to friends and family online or via U.S. mail. The cards can be redeemed as donations to over one million charities on Network for Good's website.

We are delighted to work with many of our region's best nonprofits. This tech impact story examines how NPower set up the computers and network at all 13 USO-Metro locations on military bases, at airports, and in military hospitals in DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

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Dell and Goodwill Industries have just launched Reconnect, a drop-off program to recycle unwanted computers. Reconnect offers free recycling for ANY brand of computer equipment in ANY condition for Washington, D.C. metro area residents, including Maryland and Virginia.

Computer donors are responsible for removing data from hard drives and other storage media before donating to Goodwill. Donors can also request a Goodwill receipt at time of donation.

The program goals are to divert over 2.7 million pounds of used computers and computer equipment from area landfills over the next year; and provide consumer education on the importance of environmentally-responsible computer disposal.

Congratulations to our friends and clients of Goodwill DC for this terrific and much needed program.

All computer equipment can be brought to one of the following locations:

Gaithersburg 619 South Frederick Avenue (Rt. 355) (301) 527-0970 Mon - Sat, 10am - 9pm Sun, Noon - 6 pm	Rockville 4890 Boiling Brook Parkway (301) 881-0744 Mon - Sat, 10 am - 8 pm; Sun, Noon - 5 pm	District of Columbia 2200 South Dakota Ave NE (202) 715-2658 Mon- Sat, 10 am to 7pm Sun, Noon to 6pm
Arlington 10 South Glebe Road (703) 979-5947 Mon - Sat, 10 am - 9 pm Sun, Noon - 6 pm	Manassas 8014 Sudley Road (703) 551-3200 Mon - Sat, 10 am - 8 pm; Sun, 10 am - 6 pm	Sterling Sterling Plaza II Shopping Center 22405 Enterprise St (703) 444-5186 Mon - Sat, 10 am - 8 pm; Sun, 10 am - 6 pm

www.reconnectpartnership.com

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The typical small-business network is far more complicated than some hardware and software vendors would lead us to believe. Having competent support is a necessity especially when “mission-critical” data is involved.

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