Kramden Institute

Kramden Institute, Inc., is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable corporation. It is based on a father/son project initiated in their home June 2003, when NedDibner, then 13, suggested to his father Mark to refurbish and fix older computers to donate to middle school honor-roll students in Durham, NC who could not afford home computers. This pilot project was highly successful and,from July 2003 through March 2004, over 90 personal computers and 50 monitors were donated to the project from individuals and businesses, and 50 computer systems were completed and donated to the school under the Kramden for Kids name. These systems were disbursed to sixth, seventh and eighth grade students who were on the All-A or A/B Honor Rolls but who could not afford home computers. By May 2004, ALL honor-roll students in the school had computers in their homes. Additional computer equipment and computers were donated to the school for classroom and teacher use. The initial project was highly successful, and was the basis for the activities and growth of Kramden Institute. In our pilot project, the rebuilt computers were donated to a middle school, which in turn donated them to its students who cannot afford home computers. In our first year, we targeted honor roll students at Brogden Middle School in Durham, NC. Each kid who did not have a home computer received a working CPU, Monitor, keyboard/mouse, and software for word processing and other Office functions. ...