HOW CAN I MAKE A DONATION?

    .    Occassionally, people wish to make a donation, to help me 
    continue to provide this unique service to people without regard 
    for their abilty to pay.  Sometimes these are e-mail clients to 
    whom I've given a great deal of my time and energy; who, for one 
    reason or another, won't be coming here to complete this process 
    (at least in the near future.)  Other times, former clients, who 
    might have payed little or nothing for my services, have realized 
    substantial improvements in not only their personal lives but their 
    financial situations, as the result of the closure I helped them to 
    obtain.  In still other instances, someone has abused my tendency to 
    give people "the benefit of the doubt," regarding their motives for 
    being in contact with me; and, have enough character to want to 
    compensate me for having used time and effort which I could have 
    spent on someone who was sincere.  Long story short, my policy of 
    never turning away a person who is sincere but unable to pay or has 
    to pay in only tiny increments, results in it being a constant 
    struggle to barely keep both ends meeting somewhere in the general 
    vicinity of the middle.  Without occassional donations, I don't see 
    how I could continue to do this the way it needs to be done.  Just 
    like those of you who get regular, dependable paychecks for all of 
    the hours which you put into your job, I have things such as utility 
    bills and other necessary expenses which MUST be paid, regardless of 
    how much (or, even if) the people who come here in any given month 
    can afford to pay me, regardless of how much people procrastinate or 
    back out, regardless of how many people feel free to abuse my good 
    will and time for purposes other than I intend, etc.

    You may do so by any of the following methods: 

    1) Sending a check or money order to: 
                 Kathy Renbarger, 
                 PO Box 483, 
                 Seminole, OK. 74818 

    2) If you'd like to send a donation on-line, using a credit or debit 
    card, you may do so via my fedup@okplus.com e-mail address, using: 
    PAY PAL

    3) Or, for those of you who prefer to retain more anonymity, 
    you may also place credit on my Lowe's (home improvement store) 
    merchandise card, the number of which is:  600649_1700027378308

    4) Gift certificates for Wal-Mart are also a good avenue for 
    people who wish to remain anonymous; and, perhaps, need to 
    avoid questions from someone else regarding the donation.  
    Gift certificates from other stores can often be problematic, 
    however; since, they might not have a store in my area; or, 
    they might be ill suited to my rather austere lifestyle.

    5) Used computer equipment, sent to my snail mail address...  
    Quite often, equipment which is upgraded and discarded will 
    exceed the outdated equipment which I get by with; plus, it's 
    the type of donation which costs you virtually nothing and 
    results in no questions from others in your life.  Right now, 
    I'm in rather desperate need of a laptop which exceeds my old 
    (non-upgradable) 486/100, which will only run Win3.1 and chokes 
    on the internet, since it has only 8 megs of memory...  I could 
    also use an upgrade on this old 166mgz dinosaur desktop which I 
    use...  I have a standard Win98 CD; so, feel free to format the 
    hard drive (to erase all personal info.)  If it were to be a more 
    proprietary system, though; such as an HP (which requires its own 
    restoration drivers,) a copy of the system restoration disk or CD 
    would be greatly appreciated (as, of course, the equipment would 
    be...)  Even upgrading to larger than 1.2gig (C) and 545 megs (D) 
    hard drives and more than 48 megs of memory would help a lot...  
    If anyone is getting rid of an old 100 meg zip drive and has spare 
    diskettes for it, they would help, as well; as would an internal zip 
    drive.

    .    To those of you who do decide to make a donation; but, who 
    choose to do so without letting me know that it's from you and 
    letting me thank you personally, I want to take this opportunity 
    to thank you. {smile}  Without the help of people such as yourself, 
    it would be extremely difficult for me to maintain the open door 
    policies which I feel are needed for this program.


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E-mail: Kathy (Renbarger) at:  fedup@okplus.com







              Last updated: 10/30/2002