CHICAGO – Schools, churches and some impoverished homes inChicagoland will be the beneficiary of Alliant Credit Union'sdonation of 86 personal computers, 103 monitors, eight servers, anetwork hub and more. The $4.4 billion CU donated the used techgear to the Computers for Schools Foundation(www.pcsforschools.org), which will refurbish and distribute it toschools, churches, charitable organizations and the homes ofunderprivileged children. In addition to helping a good cause, theCU gets the benefit of the foundation's technicians cleaning offthe data on each hard drive to meet stringent Department of Defensecertification standards. Laurie Wallace, senior network engineer atAlliant (www.alliantcreditunion.org), says some vendors charge $35to $45 per computer for that service. “This was both the safest andmost cost-effective way that we could donate our computers,”Wallace says. “It's also very much in line with Alliant's ongoingmission to support education, youth financial literacy and ourpartnership with the National PTA.”