History

PeaceB2You began to evolve in 1994 when several of us (idle retirees) continued to talk shop like we were still working.

Realizing that employment was a thing of the past, a few of us decided to apply knowledge and skills gained over in 30+ years of labor to social activity.

The first attempt was called MOCALSystems which enlisted ourselves and other volunteers to provide computer consulting to our churches and friends.

Our first web page was on a private internet service provider under a personal account.  When this ISP folded without notice another ISP was used which soon did the same.

MOCALSystems went through several ISPs before we decided in 1999 to purchase a domain and buy reliable web hosting.  At this time PeaceB2You entered the cyberworld.

At first it was mostly family and friend news and articles concerning peace, justice, poverty and hunger with one or two pages devoted to computer consulting.  We were also active in fund-source location for church and parochial schools.  This continued until September 2002 when we were overwhelmed with web site creation and funding requests.  The family/friends news was moved to a new site.

Because of lack of volunteers and energy we were forced to cut back on fund raising and social articles but hope to reinstate the articles in the future.  Some of the past articles are in our Archive.

Mission and Goals

Since most of the money we get is from individuals and organizations for specific purposes (a church or school), that is where the energy is spent.

Applications for site creation are still accepted but organizations are asked to fund themselves if possible.

We still help churches, schools and non-governmental social-service agencies with office automation and other computer-related problems and plan to continue.

How is this financed?

PeaceB2You web site is personally funded.  Client web hosting and domain names, hardware/software, travel to client locations are paid for with designated contributions, memorials and guilt trips I put people through.