1736 Magazine - Vision for the Future

Broad Street looking west
in downtown Augusta.
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bleak, but it was very short,” she
said.
At Tech 4 Success, Green said
there were times early in the pandemic
when he “actually sat here
and watched paint dry on the wall
for hours.” Today, he can barely
keep up with demand.
When he ran out of inventory last
fall, he still had several computers
he was reluctant to disassemble
but wanted to resell. He found a
solution with a local nonprofit that
helped him get into business and
helps other entrepreneurs – The
Clubhou.se.
“We have a partnership agreement
for electronics recycling,” he
said. “If anyone brings computers
to us, it’ll go through The Clubhou.
se as a donation, and if it’s a good
working computer, we’re trying to
do it where we refurbish them and
then they go to a child in need who
needs it for school.”
Just a couple of doors down from
Green’s shop is a corner shop at
Ninth and Broad streets that used
to be his computer sales floor.
Now it’s another active storefront
– a thrift store he helped open,
operated by another nonprofit,
Changing Faces. The store, which
helps raise money for the charity’s
mission of paying for housing
and food, also sells his refurbished
computers. Down the road with
Changing Faces, he hopes to provide
accredited computer literacy
classes for transient foster youth
and for technologically-challenged
seniors.
“We do a lot of this,” Green said,
then chuckled. “We probably do
too much.” But it keeps him busy.
“It’s a huge change from just two
months ago. It is a welcome change,
I will say that.”
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