Tech Friends of The Children's Storefront

Tech Friends of The Children's Storefront who have become tech partners with The Children's Storefront and have helped out a school with a unique mission. Our tech progress is a direct result of the generosity of our tech friends!

August 10, 2009: Much thanks to Jo Klos and Carla Gatges at www.glance.net for the donation of one license of GLANCE to Storefront which will help us out immensely in terms of faculty training and support for the coming year. GLANCE appears to be one of the best products of its kind for easy screen-sharing with control between any two computers, whether Mac or PC.
April 15, 2009: Special thanks to Sarah Reynolds and Paulette Greene (President, www.fablevision.com) for the generous donation of 20 copies of Animation-ish software which is cross platform. "Hi Steve! I discussed it with Paulette Greene, our President, and she agrees that this sounds like a great idea; we?d love to donate to your group. I?ll be sending you another email directly with download instructions and 20 license key numbers attached. Each computer will require one of the license keys. Please let us know if there?s anything else we can do or if you have any questions!"
July 17, 2008: About two weeks ago, one of our servers running our backup utility crashed. I posted a note on the ISED listserv for Independent Schools and was amazed by the chain of events and e-mails that ensued. Click here to read about the incredible proactive generosity demonstrated by several people who have helped us in a major way. As I said to Audrey Levi, owner of Altek Computer Group in Miami Florida, it is incredibly rare to encounter someone so generous and so proactive who does not have a direct connection with our school or any people here. Thank you so very much, Audrey (as well as Carolyn and Sam for making the connection). We would love to offer you an open invitation to visit our school if you are ever in NYC.
June 23, 2008: Special thanks to Andrew Speyer from Choate who drove his vehicle and dropped off20 Dells with matching keyboards, mice, power adapters and six 17" CRT monitors. Unbelivably generous, Andrew writes "we would like to an annual donation each summer if you are interested."
--Andrew J. Speyer, Director of Information Technology Services, Choate Rosemary Hall, 333 Christian Street, Wallingford, CT 06492 Click here for the vehicle before unloading and click here for the 2 page Microsoft document of instructions for restoring each machine to its native XP state.
March 22, 2008: Special thanks to Marlon Henry from Noble & Greenough School who drove a truck down from Boston and helped unload 27 Macs that had been secured by Clint Gilbert from piping.com from a Boston school. Darren Goodwin had kept the Macs protected for 2 weeks. Marlon got the chance to say hello to Michael Lewis from The Wireless Harlem Initiative who helped us unload the truck. Marlon now works as part of the Noble & Greenough Computer Dept and was a student of mine (Steve Bergen) back in 1998.
March 13, 2008: Special thanks to Dirk and Yumi from Greenwich Academy who drove down over 20 eMacs and took wonderful pictures as the grade 7 girls unloaded the 50 pound computers from the truck. This generosity and proactive effort will have a huge positive impact on helping more families in Harlem get free computers at our next Tech Saturday in May. You can see click here or on their picture above to see the photos. And what a wonderful concept that parallels American Gangster movie when drugs were being trucked into Harlem to think that now we are trucking computers into Harlem for Tech Saturdays. Perhaps Dirk and Yumi should get a special award from Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe as "American Techsters" one of these days!
March 7, 2008: gigathanks to Rob Sugarman and Bill Luther from Tequipment from Farmingdale NY for one of the most shocking acts of generosity we have ever seen on 129th street. Coming out on Friday 3/7 to do a routine walk-through and to choose 2 or 3 rooms for a mounted projector and smartboard, the two of them forced me (Steve Bergen) to sit down after 33 minutes so they could share the "facts of life" with me. Unwilling and reluctant I sat down and was shocked to hear that they wanted to put mounted smartboards and mounted projectors into each of our 15 classrooms at no charge, along with training our entire faculty. Speechless, stunned and shocked, it has taken me days to recover and understand the magnitude of this generous gift and the enormity of how it is going to impact our school. Arriving with truck on Wednesday March 26th, the view from a porch in Harlem began to take on a distinctive look with Smartboard cartons! Click on the picture at the top to see a picture or Rob and Bill with several Storefront students in the computer lab. Click here for "before" and "after" pictures of the 14 rooms that were transformed on March 26-28, 2008.
Dec 2007: much thanks to Pat Smith and his crew from SK Cabling from Staten Island for installing cables into both our Business Office and Grade 3 Classroom and then saying "Merry XMas" instead of sending a bill. Cilck on picture above to see their picture with the Larry Bird doll on 129th St.
Oct 2007: much thanks to our tech friends at Park School in Boston MA for shipping 15 working laptops to us (pictures 1 and 2 and a thank you video)

The Children's Storefront is an Independent, tuition free school in Harlem

From the georgetown.edu Web site regarding Ned O'Gorman:
In the mid-1960's O'Gorman decide to get involved in the local community in Harlem in New York City. He founded the Children's Storefront, meant as a refuge for children, "where the senses of the children could thrive..or, at the very least, exist." The Children's Storefront, now privately supported without any federal, city or state aid, accepts any child who wishes to come there.

Two Buildings on the North Side | One Building on the South Side
From our main Web site at www.thechildrensstorefront.org:

Mission

We work in partnership with families and community members to prepare children academically and emotionally for further education.
The Children's Storefront is an independent, tuition-free school in Harlem committed to providing a comprehensive education to children with varied academic strengths from preschool through 8th grade. Our work is grounded in the conviction that every child deserves the opportunity for an excellent education.
We work in partnership with families and community members to prepare children academically, socially and emotionally for further education, empowering each child to reach his or her potential. We inspire the imagination, creativity and love of learning inherent in all children. We promote values of hard work, mutual respect and service to our society in a structured, joyful environment.
We are a caring community of educators, children, families and friends who are focused on each student's daily achievement as a step towards a better future.

History

We inspire the imagination, creativity and love of learning inherent in all children
The Children's Storefront was founded in 1966 to provide a safe haven for Harlem children to engage in a variety of educational activities; by 1970 it had grown into a formal preschool.
In order to have a lasting impact upon students and their families, th school began expansion to a full elementary program. In 1981 a first grade class was formed, and each subsequent year one grade was added until 1989, when six students graduated from the first eighth grade class.
September 10, 1966 - Mr. O'Gorman begins The Children's Storefront as a small program for neighborhood children on Madison Avenue between 128th and 129th Street. The program functions as a library, an after school center and a drop-in site for all neighborhood children. Food and quiet nap-space are provided for about 50 children a day.
1982 - The Storefront receives a challenge grant from the Ford Foundation to start a fledgling environment. Today our foundation is about $3,300,000.
1983 - The Storefront opens a residential summer camp in Lyme, Connecticut on the property of a Board member. The program now serves 50 students each summer.
1989 - The Storefront first eighth grade class of six students graduates.
1990 - Karen Goodman produces a documentary shown on PBS television and nominated for an Academy Award.
October 1991 - Renovations are completed on 70 East 129th building and five grades move into the building. Made possible through a $1,000,000 anonymous grant.
1993 - a grant from Joan Ganz Cooney establishes the Storefront's afterschool program.
June 1994 - NYSAIS grants the Storefront full accreditation, following a year-long evaluation process.
1995 - Manhattan School of Music starts regular music programs - opera, classical and jazz - at the Storefront as part of the school music program.
Spring 2001 - The Storefront celebrates its 35th anniversary with a gala at Harlem's famous, Apollo Theatre.
June 2003 - The Storefront graduates its largest 8th grade class with 14 students.
In 2005, the Storefront receives extensive kitchen makeover from Emeril Lagasse and the Food Network.

Our Hope
We hope that you have taken the time to learning more about The Children's Storefront. We have a limited computer budget and are trying to make things happen "on a shoestring."
If there is any way you can support us or help us or discount your services, we would appreciate it tremendously. Megathanks!

Audio Permission re Joe Cocker Music
"up to 10 percent of the work but no more than 30 seconds of the music or lyrics from an individual musical work."
source? http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.shtml
other source? http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/ccmcguid.htm