How It All Started: RIT Students, Refurbished Computers, and a Mission Worth Building
Before there was Shift2, there was a group of RIT students with a simple idea and a lot of drive.
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BuildIT Computer Camp 2025: Rochester Students Build Their Own Computers and Take Them Home
Every summer, a group of Rochester high schoolers spends a week doing something most people never get to do: building a computer from scratch. By the…
Shift2 Ribbon Cutting – A New Space to Grow the Mission
In February 2025, Shift2 celebrated the opening of our new location with an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony. We were joined by City of Rochester…
Shift2’s Megan Alchowiak Named 2025 Tech Woman of the Year Finalist
Megan Alchowiak, Executive Director of Shift2, has been named a finalist for the 2025 Tech Woman of the Year, a recognition that reflects years of work…
Shift2 Equips Innova Girls Academy with 68 Dell Laptops at Half the Cost of Chromebooks
When Innova Girls Academy Charter School was preparing to open its doors for the first time in fall 2023, they had a plan for student computers….
Frontier Donates High-Speed Fiber Internet to Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Rochester Through Shift2 Partnership
When Frontier Communications joined Shift2’s Community Partner Union (CPU) as a corporate sponsor, they put their membership to work for a Rochester nonprofit that needed it.
Shift2 and Li-Cycle Donate Laptops to 60 Rochester Students
Sixty senior students at Edison Career and Technology High School walked away with something they earned: a laptop to take with them into the next chapter.
Shift2 Partners with REDCO to Put Laptops in the Hands of Rochester Entrepreneurs
Starting a business takes a lot. A laptop shouldn’t be the thing that slows you down.
A New Name, The Same Mission: Introducing Shift2
In 2018, The Shore Foundation was founded as a student philanthropy project at RIT with a simple goal: refurbish computers and get them to people who…