Places to donate your computers in Illinois
Non-profit organizations seeking computer equipment donations
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Chicago
The Center of Higher Development - Founded in 1992, The Center of Higher Development now operates 10 computer technology centers in low-income communities in Chicago. Clients served are principally African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American. Our mission is to: Provide computer training, after-school programs, life skills and educational resources for underserved low-income communities in Chicago and to help eliminate the digital divide in those disadvantaged communities which keeps residents from important opportunities for learning and advancement. Our services are all free and we serve over 1200 children, youth, and adults each year.
We started one of our newest centers in an impoverished and troubled neighborhood in Chicago: West Englewood, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city, especially for children. The donated Pentium III computers we are using are too slow for much of the instructional and business software we need to offer our children and adults. We could use as many as 12 Pentium IV/V computers at this site.
The Center just received a large grant from the Illinois State Board of Education to set up a 21st Century Computer Center in South Chicago, a blue-collar area in Chicago that suffers from high unemployment. We will be serving a school at which over 90% of the students qualify for free/reduced cost lunches. A complication with this grant is it does not cover equipment, so we are seeking another 15 Pentium IV/V computers for this new site. If you can help, please e-mail Robert Bator or phone 773-643-1881
Chicago
Leap Learning Systems - works to close the education gap by training teachers, parents and children. Our services includes providing language strategies to help early childhood educators and direct training on effective communication skills to adolescents and teens. The more of our resources that we can put toward direct services the more individuals, families and schools we can positively impact. Most of our current equipment was donated or purchased several years ago, therefore we are working with slow computers and equipment that often needs to be serviced.
We could be a lot more productive with new or newer equipment. Our programs would benefit from three high speed/high capacity PCs, 3 lap tops, an upgraded color copier, an upgraded color printer and a high quality shredder. If you can help, please email Michael Levesque, Executive Director, Leap Learning Systems, or call 312-578-1255.
Rockford
Brooke Road United Methodist Church - We are a small congregation looking for 3-4 computers to download Bible-based software on to teach our children and youth in an interactive, non-threatening and fun way. We are also planning in the near future to offer afterschool tutoring to the low-income, (high hispanic population) children in our neighboorhood. These children do not have the everyday luxuries that their fellow peers do. We want to offer computer based math, science and english tutorials to help these students with their studies.
We are seeking PCs (no Macs, please) with at least Pentium Three processor, CD-rom drive, sound cards, enough memory to run newer software for teaching children Bible based interactive games and be internet ready/capable. If you can help, please e-mail Cheryl May or phone 815-708-8208