"nonprofit reuse or recycling program"
How the policies and procedures are working, and what isn't working as well as it could
What would it take for what isn't working as well as it could, to work better
How the policies and procedures are working, and what isn't working as well as it could
What would it take for what isn't working as well as it could, to work better
John,
Jim Lynch and I spent quite some time a couple of years ago assessing the current state of federal donations being given to schools. If you want some in-depth findings of what is happening in California, I would be glad to talk to you about it.
The program is a mess and totally worthless. The implementation varies from state to state and is dependent upon who you know. I have lots to say and I believe it is a waste of taxpayer money that doesn’t benefit schools.
I am here if you need further information.
Pat Furr
Founder/President of Computers for Classrooms, In.
Celebrating our 25th year of helping schools, low income families and seniors
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A working group of us have been working with HUD, Commerce, and GSA on a revision of Executive Order 12999 and the Computers for Learning program to try and make the program more effective. Pat is on that working group. The changes seem to be well under way, but it’s too soon for me to report in to ya’ll officially on this.
-jim
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I’m part of the Procurement team...
I’m currently working on finding a vendor to donate our computers to. These computers do not have hard drives but are in good condition.
Duration of donation will be approximately four months. During this time we will be donating approximately 30-40 computers a month. The Equipment will not be palletized for pickup. The models may vary but will mainly consist of OptiPlex 760 Desktops and OptiPlex 780 Desktops.
If awarded the donation, how soon would you be available to pick up the equipment?
Please let me know if you have any other questions and or if you would like to accept our donation.
Thanks
Non-Profit Computing will be happy to place your donation promptly and well for you, and ensure that the recipient organization provides you a proper letter of receipt if you need that -- it'd also be helpful to know:Do the items being considered for donation include printers / scanners / copiers / fax equipment, network gear, or anything else other than desktops or laptops
Is there a list of the items being considered for donation, and if not yet, what are the approximate quantities and timing for asset disposition, whether all at one time, or in stages over a period of time, and if in stages, approximate quantities anticipated per stage -- when appropriate, we've also placed donations in corporate / institutional government refreshes where the donated items go out as the new items come in
Do the items being considered for donation include any items that are known not to be fully working, and if so, whether those items been professionally diagnosed -- we can place items that are known not to be fully working, or have them mined for parts, with an absolute minimum going to responsible recycling / destruction
Have any parts been removed, for example, hard disk drives or RAM -- this isn't the only data destruction method, but if your firm chooses it, it influences the donations placement process so we need to know
Are all the items being considered for donation owned by your firm -- if any are leased, for example, we've worked with that in previous corporate / institutional / government donations, we just need to know up front
Whether your firm has any preferences or restrictions as to kinds of recipient organizations or their locations
If pickup will be required, whether there's a window of availability, or a deadline, for pickup, and where geographically to pick up -- if your firm expects to be shipping anyway for your firm's own reasons, for example to a staging area / warehouse as part of your firm's asset disposition process, could such shipments be made instead to a distribution center or freight forwarder that would be involved in the donations placement process
Does your firm need tax-deduction documentation -- our pro-bono tax advisor advises that letters of receipt not include values, which should come from your firm's own tax advisors, but we'd be keenly interested in your firm's take on current best practices for receipting for donations, particularly at the scale you refer to
We place donated items directly with recipient end-user organizations -- as soon as we have the above information, we make a match with an organization that needs what you have.
I'm sure you have questions that aren't covered above -- once we have the above information, I'd be happy to call you.
I work in the Procurement Department...and we are currently in the process of a long-term renovation. With that being said, we are replacing all of our current computer equipment and would love the opportunity to donate any computers, laptops, etc. we will no longer be using.
Is this something that would interest you? If so, please give me some details on the types of computer equipment that you accept for donation as well as the amount you are willing to accept. Also, please let me know the pick-up options and prices.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks so much!
I assume it's not under warranty -- has it been professionally diagnosed or serviced
It is not under warranty. We had a repairman come in and look at it, who did not know how to address the issue – we kept getting the message on the display screen “Switch power off. Check cartridge path.” It continues to display this message.
Is it owned by you / your firm -- if it's leased, for example, we've worked with that in previous corporate / institutional / government donations, we just need to know up frontIt is owned by our firm.
Whether you / your firm has any preferences or restrictions as to kinds of recipient organizations or their locations
We do not have any preferences as to the recipient.
Whether there's a window of availability, or a deadline, for pickup, and where to pick up
We would like the plotter to be picked up at the latest, at the end of this week. It is located at our offices[...]there is an elevator in the building that goes to [their] Floor.
Do you / your firm need tax-deduction documentation -- our pro-bono tax advisor advises that letters of receipt not include values, which should come from your / your firm's own tax advisors, but we'd be keenly interested in your / your firm's take on current best practices for receipting for donations
We would like tax documentation. We estimate the value of the plotter to be $1,500.00.
Looking forward
If anyone needs anything else, about the above or anything else, let me know.
If this email message leads to any useful or interesting results, I'd be interested in hearing about it.