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Sponsors and Supporters
Cal-ESAR is a nonprofit team completely funded by it's members and supporters.
All team members provide their own equipment and transportation, and take vacation
or unpaid time from work to perform searches and training. Support from the
community is vital to our ability to perform our missions.
Donations
If you are interested in donating money, equipment, or other resources to Cal-ESAR,
please go to our Donations page.
Community Organizations
Two community organizations have been extremely supportive of Cal-ESAR. Our
Lady of Angels Church in Burlingame, California provides us with a place to
hold our meetings. This saves us large amounts of time and money and is deeply
appreciated. The Elks Club of San Mateo supports us with some financial donations,
which goes towards our operating expenses.
Vendors
Cal-ESAR is in the process of building one of the best web sites for volunteer
search and rescue teams. This site helps us operate much more efficiently, attract
more members, solicit more funding, and in the long run, better serve the state
of California. The following vendors have been extremely supportive of Cal-ESAR
and we are deeply in their debt. Each and every one of them responded very positively
when we requested a donation of their product or services and continue to support
us to this day. We strongly recommend their quality and professionalism. Please
click on their logo to go to their web sites. If you have any questions at all
about their support or products, please contact David Kovar - kovar@calesar.org.
Telamon, Inc.
Telamon, Inc. produces a paging system called TelAlert which is used by everyone
from small SAR teams, to local companies, to Fortune 1000 companies. They have
been very supportive of Cal-ESAR and have donated a copy of their product to
the team, which has dramatically improved our ability to perform timely callouts
of our staff. TelAlert's web interface provides us with a lot of flexibility
in implementing our callout process while their two-way acknowledgment system
greatly improves both our ability to get information out to the volunteers and
helps us determine their status.Prior to Telamon, our paging system ran on a
PC accessible to only one person. With Telamon, the system is not only more
flexible, but it's accessible via the web, allowing any of our operations staff
to page individuals, groups, or the entire team. We're deeply indebted to Telamon
for their support! WebNexus, Inc.
WebNexus, Inc
WebNexus is an Internet Service Provider that has been extremely supportive of the
team for many years. They host our site, provide colocation services for our
server, and support our mailing lists. They're extremely responsive to our needs
and provide us with very professional, and personal, attention.
Caldera, Inc.
Caldera markets a commercial version of OpenLinux that is extremely easy
to use. We considered using RedHat, or one of the other relatively inexpensive
and available versions of Unix, but went with Caldera because they have ported
Netscape's products to their OS. Netscape's Directory Server is an integral
part of our system for managing our roster and pager call-out. We are extremely
pleased with the product, it's ease of use, completeness, and support.
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