If you have old ham gear in North Texas, the best move is not dropping it at a thrift store and hoping for the best. McKinney Amateur Radio Club is the rare local organization where dusty radios can feed license training, technical workshops, repeater infrastructure, and real emergency-readiness practice.
A donated car seat can be clutter relief, or it can become part of a real support system. In Spring, Loving Choice links baby items to free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, classes, and a point-based baby store that lets parents choose what they need.
Missoula International Friendship Program has a wonderfully unfussy theory of support: pair a University of Montana international student with a local resident, keep the invitations coming, and let dinner do the heavy lifting. In a world that loves institutional fixes, this all-volunteer program makes the case for one-to-one welcome.
A spare bag of kibble can do four very different jobs in Houston. This guide sorts four local rescues by what happens after the handoff: shelter pulls, reunification, breed-specific placement, or foster recovery.
Lincoln’s child-care system is bigger than any one preschool classroom. These four nonprofits let donors fund the real pressure points: provider meals and compliance, full-day care, tuition help, and family support.
Missoula Food Bank & Community Center is compelling for a simple reason: it treats hunger relief like a matter of dignity, not crowd control. The free choice-model Store, kid meal programs, and food-rescue system make this the Missoula donation answer I’d give a friend.
DreamScopes: put telescopes in every middle school on Earth!
Remember The First Time You Looked Through A Telescope?
Remember what it felt like to see the Rings of Saturn, the mountains of the Moon, the red world of Mars?
How it felt as a child to see with your own eyes the Universe of possibility around you, to literally rise above and beyond the circumstances of your daily life and soar?
Let's inspire the next generation of scientists, explorers, leaders, and builders of space ... together.
Join Our “Moon Shot” Goal
Let’s make it possible for every kid on Earth to look through a telescope; to see the mountains of the Moon, the ice caps of Mars, and the wonders of the Universe.
Let’s inspire a generation to reach beyond their circumstances and Dream by placing a telescope in every middle school on Earth.
Let’s spark their curiosity, launch them into STEAM subjects, and involve them in humanity’s expansion beyond Earth.
They Will Rise! - The Leaders of the Space Revolution are Out There Now
Somewhere out there on planet Earth is a young person who has never looked through a telescope. When they do, their life may well change. Maybe they will be inspired to study a bit more. Maybe they will decide they want to learn about science or astronomy, or by seeing other worlds they might become more aware of their own environment and work to help save the planet.
Maybe they will decide they want to work in space, start a space company, or perhaps, just maybe, they will want to lead some of the first people to go out there. People whose children will look through telescopes back at their MotherWorld.
The Time Is Now: A Global Technology Revolution is Underway
The global technology sector is booming and this will only increase.
Demand is growing for skilled workers, leaders crosses all sectors.
STEAM education is a core investment in the future of every locale, nation, and the planet.
A positive and inspiration-driven generation can be equipped and rise to meet these challenges.
Space is proven as The most inspiring tool to motivate young minds
Get kids hooked on Hope!
You have the chance to help us get kids hooked on Dreams of a better future, addicted to science, learning, and building their own futures.
Our Dream Dealers program allows you, your group, or your company to acquire or place DreamScopes anywhere you want.
Be it one at your old middle school, or a hundred in the city where you live or grew up, even the country you call home, EarthLight will work with you to “make it so!” Better yet, we can work with you for you to be there, and have your name on every scope you help us place!
A Choice of Tomorrows
The EarthLight Foundation believes we all have the “Right Stuff,” and that given the Right Dream any kid anywhere can begin their own journey to a great tomorrow of their own creation. They may not all end up as astronauts, or building human communities in space, but some small fraction of them just might.
Meanwhile, by giving them a chance to fly beyond the borders of their lives and see what is out there in the Universe around them at a critical age, we believe many more will choose to study, learn, and engage in acquiring STEAM skills – helpful no matter what dream they decide to pursue.
Good Heart Technology is a volunteer-run, Boise-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the productivity and efficiency of people and nonprofits by empowering them with technology. Good Heart Tech’s volunteers have many years of IT experience serving businesses of all sizes all over the United States. We work with many nonprofits to improve their productivity and help them be more impactful. 100% of donations goes toward providing technology to other nonprofits.
To help our licensed operators better serve the community, the McKinney Amateur Radio Club (MARC) has city approval from Fairview, Texas, to install communications equipment on one of their water towers.
Equipment will include VHF radio repeaters, APRS service and a microwave link, requested by the National Weather Service in Ft. Worth TX, to assist with reporting. This coverage will provide backup communications support for local law enforcement and emergency services when called upon.
A Conex at the base of the water tower will hold all equipment to operate the antennas on the tower.
Expenses include securing a Conex, installing electrical, A/C, repeaters and running cable out and up the tower. Which includes 300' of heliax coax, connectors and fasteners. Hiring a certified climber.
MARC volunteer members will maintain the equipment.
Projected costs $19,000.00. We have secured $10,000.00 from an anonymous donor.
Your contribution to this project is appreciated.
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