November 15, 2010
Welcome to Operation America Cares. This is an open letter from Greg Scott and Linda Millimaki.
The original Operation America Cares is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation and started operations in 2005 in Minnesota, USA. The mission was to connect military families serving overseas with loved ones here at home via video teleconference, along with sending care packages to the troops. The original founders included a US Marine family, a few members of Eagan Hills Church, and a local Minnesota telecom company. The original OAC essentially went dormant when the founding US Marine family deployed to Okinawa, other families moved out of state, and video teleconferencing became less relevant as the US Military adopted lower cost methods to connect back home.Recently, a new and different Operation America Cares started operations near San Diego, California, USA. The new OAC's mission is to send care packages to the troops. It is gaining donors and growing. Through the magic of the Internet, Linda Millimaki of the new California OAC and Greg Scott of the old Minnesota OAC recently met. Greg is a founder and board member of the old OAC, Linda is a founder of the new OAC. Since the old OAC is dormant and unlikely to start significant operations again, and the new OAC is growing and meeting a real need, Linda and Greg agreed that the old Minnesota OAC will file paperwork to formally cease operations. This will pave the way for the new OAC to set up its own 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation.
The people in both California and Minnesota who handle paperwork for such operations tell us this is the easiest way to formally get the new OAC up and running, so we are working together to make this happen as soon as possible.
May God bless you and thank you for supporting our troops. And thank you for your patience during the next few days as we close down the old OAC, file paperwork for the new OAC, and eventually build a new OAC website.
- Greg Scott
Board Member
the old Operation America Cares
GregScott@Infrasupport.com
USA cell phone 1-651-260-1051
- Linda Millimaki
Founder
the new Operation America Cares
LMillimaki@aol.com