[OT]Not for Profit Question

[Roger Ruffner]

Good Luck!

I run my own business building databases for small/medium companies.  
Because of profit margins I occasionally 'give away' free databases and 
programming to not-for-profits.

This is the first year that I've been turned down by all of the NFP's (3) 
that I approached.  The reason stated by all of them was "It's been such a 
bad year that it isn't worth it to get time/effort donated to them from IT 
tech providers."  When asked what they meant by that, "There are so many 
people willing to donate time/effort to our infrastructures (which are 
pretty marginal anyway) and nobody donating time/effort/money to operations 
or volunteer operations; it doesn't do any good to have an infrastructure 
when there is no business to operate upon it."

So this year I'll have to pay a full tax load.

Roger Ruffner

>From: Paul Taylor <paul at kcnetcare.com>
>To: kclug at kclug.org
>Subject: [OT]Not for Profit Question
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:18:36 -0600
>
>Anyone know of a not-for-profit entity in Kansas City metro or surrounding 
>area that might be interested in website and/or networking done for them?
>
>I've got a capstone project at Rockhurst that requires I help a non-profit 
>upgrade/install for free and document the project thoroughly.
>
>Any suggestions would be welcome. You can e-mail me directly.
>Regards,
>Paul
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