Geeks Supporting Single Parents
This past weekend over 350 knowledge industry professionals and their families from around Atlantic Canada converged on the Moncton 
Sportsplex to participate in the third annual Geeks on Ice hockey and inaugural Geeks Golf tournaments. The tournaments have a purpose to promote networking between IT professionals from around Atlantic Canada and raise funds to purchase computers and peripherals for a non-profit organization.
The event was a huge success and rose close to $7000.00 to benefit Support for Single Parents. This investment will ensure that Support for Single Parents can deliver their services to the community in a more efficient manner. A technology investment can be very expensive for non-profits who must justify the expense. The upgrade will also provide users access to technology that most low-income families cannot leverage today to seek help.
As founder of Geeks, I want to thank the community, volunteers, Dundee Sportsdome and the City of Moncton for embracing the knowledge industry’s effort to improve our community. Events like Geeks demonstrate the city’s commitment and leadership of the knowledge industry, especially the IC2 project that will multiply the amount of Geeks in the city.
Special thanks go to Enterprise Greater Moncton, CompuSmart and Whitehill Technologies for their donations of computers and peripherals to Support for Single Parents. Geeks look forward to 2007!
Trevor Macausland
Geeks on Ice/Geeks Golf Organizer
Email: tmacausland@gmail.com
www.GeeksonIce.com
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