Many students and community members around the world that are eager to gain experience with infrastructure technologies including virtualization, compute, network and storage are currently lacking key resources including access to hands-on lab resources and affordable training materials. While we’ve managed to maintain 0% administrative costs and overhead, made possible by Google Apps for Nonprofits and contributions from vCommunity Trust volunteers, there is still a critical gap to be filled for providing lab resources. Not only will the completion of the lab environment provide hands-on access for students and community members, but it will also provide the resources to develop essential training materials and valuable lab guides. To that end, we already have the datacenter hosting, compute and virtualization resources required for a lab which will support approximately 25 students concurrently; however, we still are lacking the storage and networking components required to make this initial lab a reality. Will you kindly help us to meet our goal of providing hands-on lab resources for 25 concurrent users as well as the foundation for providing additional training materials to the general public free of charge? There are many ways you may contribute to this cause and we greatly appreciate your support. We will honor your gift by including your name or logo within our training materials and on our website so that our students and visitors to our site will know you’ve invested in the global community’s technical education. Contributions are welcome in the form of cash donations by mail or through our site at http://www.vcommunitytrust.org/donations, equipment donations mailed to 30883 Montclair Dr, Lindstrom, MN 55045, and/or transferring the rights of technical training materials created by you to vCommunity Trust Inc. Your gift will have a significant impact for increasing interest, awareness and knowledge of new technologies and enable individuals from all walks of life to embark on a successful career in technology. The ability to have hands-on experience with advanced technologies, we feel, is the best way to prepare individuals for the workplace and we thank you for partnering with us and our students to make this a reality. Sincerely,  |