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Elder Services Receives Net Services Software Donation from Novell
Pittsfield, MA , July 5, 2000 - Elder Services has received a computer software donation valued at $33,670, from Novell, Inc.
Elder Services’ Executive Director, Catherine R. May, said, "This software will enable our computer system to run more efficiently, decreasing system response time, thus boosting staff productivity. Service non-profits such as ourselves, with limited operational budgets, are especially grateful for donations that allow us to keep costs down while staying current with technological advances. This Novell software donation makes a huge difference to Elder Services."
Novell’s software donations are part of its community relations program, which seeks to fulfill the company’s corporate responsibility by enhancing the quality of community life. Novell’s product-giving program focuses on the areas of education, critical community needs, and cultural development. Gifts in Kind International, the world’s leading charity in product philanthropy, manages Novell’s product-giving program, coordinating distribution of Novell software to a network
of 50,000 charities across the country.
Novell, Inc. (www.novell.com) is a leading provider of Net services software that delivers services to secure and power all types of computer networks - the Internet, intranets and extranets; wired to wireless; corporate and public - across leading operating systems. Novell’s Net services software provides the foundation for one Net - a single global network that makes Net business simple and secure for organizations of every kind and size.
Gifts in Kind International (www.giftsinkind.org) partners with businesses and charities to provide quality products and services that improve lives in communities around the world. Gifts in Kind provides charities access to $350 million annually in product and service donations.