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InterConnection.org Makes Donating Your Old Laptop This Holiday Free and Easy Right from Home
New “Free Laptop Donation by Mail” helps you print, pack and ship your old laptop free of charge from anywhere in the USA and transforms it into a vital tool for underserved people and humanitarian organizations around the world.
In Holiday 2009, Laptops made up 75% of all
PCs sold to consumers according to IDC research. As more people
buy new powerful laptops at record low prices this Black Friday,
many don’t know where to take their old laptop for recycling,
don’t have the time to drop it off, and are worried about how to
protect and erase their personal data before recycling it.
Free Laptop Donation by
Mail from InterConnection.org solves these problems and
makes it easy for anyone to print, pack and ship their old
laptop from anywhere in the USA free of charge.
Laptops five years old or newer are
valuable technology resources that can refurbished and given new
life as vital tools for people and humanitarian organizations
around the world.
And reusing a laptop is 20 times more effective in reducing
greenhouse gases then recycling.
“The need for laptops has never been
greater for both NGOs and individuals”, said Charles Brennick,
founder and executive director of InterConnecton.org. “Free
Laptop Donation By Mail offers consumers free and easy
recycling, helps the environment with responsible reuse, and
grows the supply of refurbished laptops.”
Donate in 3 Easy Steps @
InterConnection.org
Donating is a simple three step process
right from the InterConnection.org home page at
http://www.interconnection.org
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Step 1: Go to
http://www.interconnection.org
and click on the Free Laptop Donation by Mail link.
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Step 2: Fill out the
quick form, registering your donation.InterConnection.org needs
these details to mail you a receipt to make the donation tax
deductable on your tax return.
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Step 3: Print the
shipping label sent to your email address, use your own packing
box, attach the label for free shipping, and send it to
InterConnecton.org.
Once the laptop arrives at
InterConnection.org, its hard drive is wiped to remove any
personal information, its refurbished, and restored with new
software ready for delivery to a needy organization. Laptop
donors can, if they prefer, also download free software listed
on InterConnection.org to wipe their personal data before they
ship it.
InterConnection.org has supplied over
25,000 refurbished computers to non-profits around the world
through partnerships with Peace Corps and Microsoft Community
Affairs, and with organizations doing emergency relief such as
World Vision Chile, Action Aid Pakistan, and World Concern
Haiti.
“After the earthquake in Haiti earlier this
year, our five offices sustained extensive damage including our
computer equipment. Our capacity to respond to disasters relies
on our capacity to communicate not only with each other, but
with donors and funders." said Susan Talbot, Gift-in-Kind
Manager at World Concern. InterConnection.org’s refurbished
laptops helped World Concern quickly rebuild their technology
infrastructure, and their ability to focus on important relief
efforts.
Learn more
about Free Laptop
Donation by Mail at
http://www.interconnection.org
About InterConnection.org
InterConnection.org is a Seattle-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission to create opportunity for underserved people and communities around the world through computer re-use. Over the last 10 years InterConnection.org has shipped over 25,000 donated computers to underserved organizations and individuals in Africa, Asia, South America, and the Puget Sound. Companies and individuals both large and small donate their surplus laptops and PCs to fuel this mission. Recent computer donors to InterConnection.org include Adobe, Alaska Airlines, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CB Richard Ellis, Real Networks, Microsoft, Nintendo, Lane Powell, PATH, and Vulcan.