Teachers Use Sudden Wealth for Domestic Violence Prevention
Two California teachers whose innovative, cross platform online training solution recently made them millionaires, have donated their sudden wealth to a unique effort to help women and children fleeing domestic violence. They and their nonprofit company are offering an iPhone giveaway to encourage others to support the effort.
Grass Valley, Calif. (PRWEB) July 17, 2007 -- Two California teachers recently became millionaires when the nonprofit company they founded sold software they developed to facilitate online training. Instead of early retirement or a spending spree, the couple are donating their windfall to match other donations to the Oasis Project, an innovative effort to help women and children fleeing domestic violence.
In 1999, Byron Turner and Alli Minch, northern California public school teachers, started Created Equal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting social justice and equality through education. Over the next few years, they released several multimedia projects on Sexism and media literacy. In 2006, Created Equal released a cross platform online training system developed by Turner. The system, TeachMac for Mac users and TeachIT for Windows users, allows nearly anyone to create and distribute online training. In keeping with the social justice philosophy of the company, TeachMac/TeachIT returns 100 percent of individual sales to the author and shares 25 percent of subscription and site license sales with authors as well. “We believe that the only sustainable capitalistic effort is one where those who do the real work are well rewarded,” said Turner. “So far, its working out well for everyone. One of our teenage authors has earned over $5,000 in first six months of this year through sales of the online training courses he developed.”
The software that powers this online training system recently sold for $2 Million. The couple could claim $1 Million in back salary, but instead are offering it up to match donations in order to help women and children escape domestic violence. “Our hope is that others will see this effort as important enough to contribute $10 or more,” Turner said.
The Oasis Project is a community centered around recovery from violence. In addition to a safe place to live, the Oasis Project will provide counseling, a school particularly sensitive to the needs of children traumatized by violence, continuing education for the mothers including college level courses, and medical and legal aid. “We think this is a needed approach to interrupting the cycle of violence,” says Minch. “We’ve both been involved with domestic violence shelters, and have seen how women are forced by circumstance to return to violent partners” explains Minch. “The Oasis Project will give women the time, and the support, necessary to help them make a real and permanent change in their lives.”
To draw attention to this effort, Created Equal is holding a drawing for an iPhone, open to contributors and well wishers alike. “Our goal is to save lives, so of course we’re hoping for contributions, but statements of support will enter people in the drawing for the iPhone,” says Turner.
To contribute to the Oasis Project and for more information about the iPhone drawing, follow the links from one the couple’s computer education sites, www.teachmac.com or www.teachitpc.com.
About Created Equal:
Created Equal is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to social justice through education. Developers recently sold a fully-functional, user-friendly solution enabling users to develop and disseminate online training. Through the use of progressive capitalism, they hope to build a system of self sustaining domestic violence shelters (the Oasis Project) while working for a world in which they are unnecessary.
Contact:
Byron Turner, President, Created Equal, Inc.
Phone: (530) 798-1103
byron @ createdequal.com
www.createdequal.com
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