Places to donate your computers in California
Non-profit organizations seeking computer equipment donations
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Los Angeles
Homecare Workers Training Center provides poverty level individuals with the tools to achieve their full educational and professional potential, while providing quality care to our senior and disabled communities and addressing the critical need for trained nursing staff in long-term care facilities. Through our pioneering efforts to develop a free healthcare career ladder for underprivileged communities, we are improving the lives of California's low-wage caregivers, seniors and persons with disabilities. Through the use of donated computers in our training centers, our students will gain real career skills and obtain real living wages.
We are seeking PC's or Laptops (no Macs, please). Speed is not important as they will only be used for word processing. If you can help, please e-mail Arlene Martinez or call 213-985-0425. We are located at: 2515 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Redondo Beach
Beach Cities Robotics, under the auspices of Redondo Beach Education Foundation, We are an award winning high school robotics team whose focus is on inspiring our community about science and technology. We provide an opportunity for high school students and others to explore the worlds of engineering, science and technology through a variety of hands-on activities, community college classes, team summer robotics academy, and mentor-devised summer robotics competition. Through our program, members learn to design, build, and program sophisticated, fully functioning robots.
Seeking Pentium 4 (or better) PCs. If you can help, please email Andrea Wagner or phone 310-953-7594
San Clemente
LEAVES Military Alliance, Inc - Our work with the servicemembers is all about filling in the gaps the support net for our American Heroes. We are finding ourselves often slowed/prevented in our support due to our reliance on an overloaded, bugfulled 1995 desktop. We need a PC (pentium 4 or better) laptop (ideally 2, one for each working staff member) so that we can help servicemembers more often on the spot, rather than having to drive them to a location with a computer. Common tasks include editing/uploading photos for deployed heroes, internet research on plane tickets or Hero Adventure requests, document creation and email. If you can help, please email Jeanne Panossian or phone 949-276-8293.
Santa Ana
Mary's Shelter - is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that serves the community by providing comprehensive residential care in a loving, supportive environment for pregnant minors who are in a homeless or other crisis situations and who have committed to carry their babies to full term. Our program includes a home for expectant mothers and a facility to care for new mothers and their child after birth, and helps prepare the mothers for emancipation, the age of majority, and independent living.
Our social service staff and administrative staff are in need of some up-to-date computers to more efficiently run our offices and provide reports to county social workers, maintain schedules, organize fundraisers, and prepare many of the support services for our residents. If you are able to help, please email Amber Davies or call 714-730-0930 x29. We would be able to provide you with a receipt for your generous donation. Thank you.
San Francisco
California Children Services, Medical Therapy Unit - is a government non-profit agency providing occupational and physical therapy to children with physical disabilities (Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, amputations, etc). We are able to adapt computers, with special hardware and software, so that children with limited physical movements can use them to control their environment, communicate and do their school work. We are mostly looking for Laptops so that we can bring it over to a child who might be using specialized equipment such as 'standers' or supportive chairs. We can provide you with a tax-deductible receipt. THANKS SO MUCH!
Seeking, "Pentium III or above laptops or G3 or above powerbooks (working please!)" If you can help, please e-mail Diane Tom, Occupational Therapist, call (415) 759-2919 or (415) 313-0391, or write - 1595 Quintara San Francisco, CA 94116