Introduction

The Michigan LoCo team wants to start a computer recycling and donation program.

Purpose

To accept computer donations from personal, business, and/or government agencies and refurbish them to a usable state. The computers will then be donated to various organizations/groups that are in need of computers.

• Possible equipment Donors:
  • Universities
  • Businesses we have contacts with
  • ...
• Possible Recipients include:
  • Schools
  • Community Centers
  • Shelters (Women's, Homeless, etc)
  • ...
• Possible parters:

  • ReCellular in Dexter (deals with recycling cell phones)

Other Examples

It is always nice to have a sense of how others go about doing similar projects, so here I will keep a list of place/groups that share our goal.

• http://freegeek.org/

• http://www.accrc.org/

  • A video of that group: link

• Arizona LoCo Team is doing Computers4Kids

• more to come