2009 Corporate Responsibility Report - Acer Group
2009 Corporate Responsibility Report - Acer Group
2009 Corporate Responsibility Report - Acer Group
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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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