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<strong>Acer</strong> <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Responsibility</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2009</strong><br />

It’s Time for Community Involvement<br />

Gateway Foundation<br />

Denied access to high-tech learning facilities due to<br />

a financially inferior upbringing, many underprivileged<br />

schoolchildren are placed at a disadvantage in the<br />

classroom; this denial of access to high-tech facilities can<br />

sometimes affect their performance when embarking on a<br />

career. This is where Gateway Foundation's mission lies:<br />

the provision of <strong>Acer</strong>'s core strengths – technologies and<br />

services – can improve the status quo of these youths for the<br />

better. Therefore, since its inauguration in 1994, Gateway<br />

Foundation has made organizations serving disadvantaged<br />

youths, and schools with resource shortage its primary<br />

targets, in hopes of helping the youths build confidence to<br />

face challenges of the future head-on, thus creating more<br />

digital opportunities.<br />

In the course of <strong>2009</strong>, Gateway Foundation helped up to 20<br />

organizations that work directly with youths within the 50-mile<br />

radiuses of North Sioux City, South Dakota, where Gateway<br />

Foundation is headquartered, and Irvine, California. 200<br />

notebooks or desktop computers were donated in all.<br />

2010 Goals and Commitments<br />

• Enhance <strong>Acer</strong> Volunteer Team's participation<br />

• Develop community-centric Digital Opportunity Project<br />

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