The HIV/AIDS Network, 1998-2004! This online member drive is to gather some money for needed items to make our network more of a success! We are 1/4 way there as of August/Sep1 2004!

Voluntary Gift Drive 2008
Please do not make a donation if you are one of our POZ members (unless you are well off or rich) or a struggling HIV positive person (I can relate, I have been homeless and without food many times in the past, but no more in the future), there is no need for you to risk your own financing to help me (I have all the necessities of life taken care of, medications are covered, food is in the fridge, clothes are on my back). But, if you know someone with extra money to spare for a good humanitarian cause, please direct them to this page (the money will go towards our sites guranteed)!

Credit Card Cash Gift to the HIV/AIDS Network®:

Or (changeable value) $

Become A HIV/AIDS Network® Monthly Sponsor (credit card):

Or (changeable value) $/month

Send Money Order, Gifts Or Checks (Mail):

Dave Brown
PO Box 5318
Oswego, NY, USA
13126

Why Does The HIV/AIDS Network Need Your Help?:

It costs DaveyBoy about $100.00 per month just for electricity to run the 2 servers (plus 3 workstations which also run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week), over $125.00 per month for high-speed business internet access (not allowed to run a server on cheaper residential lines), and 50-100 dollars a month for other costs (like domain names, picture hosting, etc). DaveyBoy does not get funding of any sort as he is not a charity (charities are too complicated and other members can have them shut down, even slander can cause this problem), that is why help is needed so his sites do not shut down!

I just bought a NEW SERVER (March 3rd, 2007)! It's equivalent to 8 computers rolled into one as it basically has 8 CPUs that share one mother board/system. Same as this Dell Server (2 @ Quad Core Intel® Xeon®, 2x4MB Cache, 4GB RAM, 2 @ 36GB SAS 15K RPM Hard Drives - equivalent to 8 CPUs), but here are the things that differ: faster RAM, no RAID, smaller 36GB (yet faster) hard drives, 3Yr BASIC SUPPORT (downgraded some items to reduce price from $6,000 down to $3,500). I paid about half from my bank account and the other half is on credit gaining interest. I had bought 3 workstations about 2 years ago (another $2,500 cost, 3GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, Windows XP Pro), but the one designated for web server (the other 2 are being used, 1 for a database server that runs applications like HIVdate and the other is my work computer now until I get another server to run the chat server seperately) is crashing/freezing a lot due to 100% CPU usage (we have many search engines that spider hundreds of pages a minute, sometimes more plus we have many sites with up to 500 visitors on the server at one time during peek times). I can now program and add more tools for POZ (like a medication diary/chart, med reminder service, more features to dating sites, POZ toolbar, voice chat maybe if I can afford the software one day, etc).

Please help out, even a dollar can help keep us online so we may continue to help over 50,000 people per month (we have over 1 million visitors a year, both POZ and negative).

DaveyBoy can prove these costs to investors or serious funders, all receipts have been saved and you can be presented with (all copies will have private data removed unless meeting with a lawyer of my choice is present) a copy of a cable bill (business highspeed internet access with static IP, not allowed to run servers on residential lines), copy of Dell receipts for 3 full (systems with monitors, KB, mice, etc) workstations, reciept from Dell for the new MEGA $3,000 server (March 3rd, 2007) easily.

Many people ask questions like: "Why does DaveyBoy have to pay so much to run sites?", "Why can't he just run his sites from free hosting from BraveNet.com like other sites?", "Why can't DaveyBoy just use MySpace?", Why can't DaveyBoy just get a cheap web hosting company for less than 20 bucks a month to run sites?", etc...
Well, some answers are: I cannot run web applications programmed in ASP or PHP (these are advanced programming languages that allow me to create web based software) on free web hosting. Cheap web hosting companies only allow one domain per account and I have about 100 sites & 50 domains (half are non POZ, but they contribute to incomes that help pay the bills for the servers), therefore it would cost almost 50 accounts x $10 a month ($500/mnth) and it has been much cheaper in the long run for me to do it myself (the new server will literally pay for itself in less than a year). Average priced hosting accounts do not have chat servers (nor the cheap ones, hardly any do and if they do you get a single room, we have a dozen). Average priced ($20-$40 per month) specialize in either ASP or PHP hosting, our sites require both, plus they do not support more than a single domain (again, I have almost 100 domains). DaveyBoy cannot control many security features on hosted accounts, being the server administrator allows him full access to firewalls (banning trouble makers and web hackers/attackers) and all software running on the actual computers, this gives DaveyBoy greater power to keep out troublemakers/spammers/scammers. Hosting accounts do not allow clients to add third party add-ons or plug-ins to their web servers that may help DaveyBoy produce better web tools for POZ. Hosting accounts do not allow installation of any software/utility/tool (such as tools to assist with mass editing web pages, cannot even unzip an archive on paid hosting accounts) that may help DaveyBoy make sites run. Most hosting companies limit your bandwidth usage (then the price goes up per MB transferred, web server uses 2-4GB a day, that's equivalent to 3,000 floppies a day or 4 CDs), yet business cable internet is unlimited.

Buy some POZ Gifts (t-shirts, mugs, etc) or see our POZ EBay Shop!

FREE ways to help out HERE!

Some people may not trust giving a stranger pure cash to spend (maybe worried DaveyBoy will spend on non needed items or something illegal), so DaveyBoy will also accept gift certificates (Ebay, Wendys, Walmart/SamsClub, RadioShack, etc), checks, money orders, cashier cheques, change collections (jar of pennies or loose change), American food stamps, gold jewelry (old, broken, missing stones), stocks/bonds, any sort of semi-valuable item/product (non perishable) that can be sold on Ebay, old computers and parts (hard drives, RAM, etc), etc. Use email address Support@HIV-AIDS-POZ.com for online purchased gift certificates please...

The HIV/AIDS Network®

What/Who We Are:

This is a network of a dozen websites offering HIV/AIDS information, support and links to local resources for the general public. Our major focus is on support offered for free to HIV+ people through chat, meeting/dating services, classifieds (rent, selling), message forums, etc. Hundreds of members live in rural areas, but find POZ companionship with the HIV/AIDS Network®'s web sites. Many couples have met locally, some even have been married by meeting each other by "fluke" on our HIVdate.com! Many people meet others through the chat rooms, sometimes people travel and meet up in a public place. Our sites even give me (DaveyBoy, founder) hope, as I realize I am not alone (I like the chats the best, talking about and accepting my HIV with other HIV+ is my mental therapy, plus we have many great peer supporters for when I am down)!

Examples of our FREE HIV+ Support web sites:
www.HIVsearch.com, www.HIVforum.com, www.HIVdate.com, www.HIVAIDSsearch.com, www.AIDSchat.org, www.POZ.ca, www.HeteroPOZ.com, www.Gay.POZ.ca, I.Am.Not.Afraid.org, www.HIV-AIDS-POZ.com, www.HIV-AIDS-Chat.com, www.HIV-AIDS-Meds.com, www.POZitiveLiving.com, etc...

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"I feel bad accepting cash gifts, but I feel worse when our sites go down due to my low-income."
-DaveyBoy


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Dave Brown
PO Box 5318
Oswego, NY, USA
13126

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Is It Legal To Give To A Canadian Citizen?

There is no gift tax in Canada (DaveyBoy/Founder is Canadian who is temporarily living in New York with family), so your transfer of monies has no Canadian tax implications. If you sold capital assets to come up with the transfer, then there may be a taxable disposition on which capital gains would have to be paid. If I was to make income from your cash gift, then I would have to pay taxes for earned income (use my Canadian SIN and to file a tax return). Giving me stocks will be deemed to have disposed of them for fair market value, which in this case gives rise to a capital loss on your part. Any amounts arising from any source, including lottery winnings, can be gifted to any person (Canada resident) without Canadian tax implications. You may include me into last will & testament documents, give me items such as computer parts (or full systems), software, jewels, a vehicle or other valuable goods.

Revenue Canada takes the position that a gift is a voluntary transfer of property without valuable consideration. In other words, other than the issuing of a receipt, there is no value given for the gift. Generally a cash gift is made if all three of these conditions are met:
· some property - usually cash - is transferred by a donor
· the transfer is voluntary; and
· the transfer is made without expectation of return (no reciept), no benefit of any kind may be provided to the giver

Please Help Me Get Funding:

  To date, I have successfully started an online HIV/AIDS live 24/7 support network (1998-2007), 24 hour HIV/AIDS education (information and facts) for those needing information and many HIV prevention tactics (posters, banner campaign, etc) without any startup grants or funds! I get almost 2 million visitors to my online web sites each year. Some of my main sites such are: http://www.HIVforum.com (people can ask questions about HIV/AIDS and get a response), http://www.HIVsearch.com (search for HIV/AIDS info), http://www.HIV-AIDS-Meds.com (new HIV/AIDS medicine database), http://www.POZ.ca, http://www.HIVAIDSsearch.com (HIV/AIDS education directory of links), http://www.13km.com (HIV/AIDS chat server), http://www.HIVdate.com (HIV/AIDS only dating and pen pals, so hard for HIV+ to meet others), http://www.HIV-AIDS-POZ.com (HIV art), etc... I have fully funded these projects from my disability check. It is not cheap running all these domains/sites, running my own web server, running my own chat server, buying my own domain names, paying for monthly picture hosting, high speed internet costs, etc. Costs now are more than they were 4 years ago when I first started, seems my costs are now more than I can afford without financial help. I have saved so much money by designing and doing all my own programming (over the last 4 years, it would have cost over $750,000.00 to hire 2 ASP programmers, a HTML programmer, graphic designer, an animation designer, network administrator, chat room monitors, email readers/responders, promoting/advertising department, search engine submissions, etc) as I knew it would be hard to prove to the World I was capable of doing this (so I might try for start-up funding some day), but I now have the proof (bit rough, but will be worked on more as usual).
 
  My sites have about 20,000 HIV positive members (free membership) and another 50,000 who visit occasionally. Each day about 5,000 people come to my sites (HIV+ and HIV negative) seeking online friends, advice, educational facts, statistics, web links to prominent sites, etc. I do all I can to help anyone who contacts me through email, chat rooms or other routes.
 
  Many members rely on my services daily for meeting others (in our online chat rooms on www.13km.com) and talking about their HIV status. Couples have even met through my services and some have even been married! Unfortunately my sites are not available everyday as sometimes my disability check will not cover all expenses. The days that my sites cannot run, I put up a "temp down page" explaining the reason for downtime and usually someone will send me a little money to help me pay off the bills to get back up. When my sites are down, many members start emailing me sending their condolences and hoping I will be back online soon so they can get back into my chat rooms to meet their POZ friends (some members panic when I go down because this is their only source of talking about their issues with others in the same situation, talking is therapy).
 
  Over the last 9 years, I have spent about $15,000 (and up) on expenses and computer/software costs in order to make this network succeed, even yesterday (March 3rd, 2007) I just bought a ($3,000 US from my dental funds and rest on Dell credit) industrial computer server. I don't know any other organization in the World that helps almost 2,000,000 people a year for less than $2,500 a year (costs 1.25 cents for me to help every 10 people, even for you to read this entire email it costs almost 20 cents in salary). I can do a lot with a little! If I had more money, I can help these people better by making more services and making my sites more reliable (just by having a better internet account that was prepaid for a year, my sites would be online 99% of the year instead of 66%-75% like they are now, I could literally help another 750,000 people with the extra uptime).
 
  I have not paid myself any money for my 4 years of work (at least 10-12 hours a day for 1440 days from 1998-2003, now about 4 hours a day 2004-2007 as I have a son to raise) so savings have been huge, but I do suffer from toothaches as dentist are too expensive (I need dentures now, it's been 5 years I have been trying to save for minor dental problems that have now esculated to rotten & crumbling teeth).


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