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ADC Supports New Colin Powell Center
March 19, 2007
 ADC and the ADC Foundation have jointly pledged support for development of the technology infrastructure at the Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center, an inner-city facility scheduled to open in Minneapolis in Fall 2007.
According to Bill Linder-Scholer, director of the ADC Foundation, ADC will donate connectivity and wireless products to enable broadband services and a wireless environment throughout the Powell Youth Center as well as the Jesuit high school that will share space in the new facility. In turn, ADC will occasionally use the
center as a customer demonstration site. The foundation will donate cash toward the purchase of new computers for the student learning labs located throughout the
center.
ADC's combined donation, which is roughly equal parts cash and product, will showcase the company's state-of-the-art equipment and reflect the foundation's grantmaking focus on access-to-technology for community nonprofit organizations.
"This donation reflects the company's commitment to good corporate citizenship and more specifically to helping a part of the community where most of the youth and their families live at or below the poverty line," said Pat O'Brien, president of Global Connectivity Solutions at ADC.
Hilton Nicholson, president of ADC's Active Infrastructure unit that includes wireless products, added, "ADC's support will help the Colin Powell Center in its longer-term goal of raising up a new generation of urban leaders who are well-educated, skilled in today's technologies and prepared for vocational pursuits."
The Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center is a project of the Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation, which focuses on developing youth leadership, strengthening families and creating meaningful work opportunities for youth and adults in the near-south neighborhoods of Minneapolis.
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