John Schwartz, writing in the 10/30/02 New York Times discusses the shutting down of the PowerUP initiative, launched in late 1999 to combat the digital divide in underserved communities. Launched in late 1999, PowerUP (http://powerup.org) was an effort to provide capital and technological expertise to youth-serving entities within underserved communities across America. Over 950 technology centers were developed or enhanced through the project, and each will now be supported through other organizations, local financing, or other means. While the program was eagerly welcome by a number of communities, there were also issues with a centralized/"one-size-fits all" approach to community technology service delivery in underserved areas. There had also been questions about coordination with existing efforts and the risks of duplicating services such that resources might be channelled away from successful smaller-scale projects lacking access to resources enjoyed by PowerUP centers. In the article, a PowerUP representative stresses that an underlying aim all along had been to ensure that the member centers could move to a level of self-sufficiency, and that the $100 million in funding, in-kind donations, and cooperative support from sources like the Case Foundation, Waitt Family Foundation, AOL Time Warner Foundation, Corporation for National Service, the National Urban League, America's Promise, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and energy-food company PowerBar Inc., had helped ensure that possibility for a large portion of the centers.