Help Others while Recycling
Your Used Computer Equipment
 
    

Do you have computer equipment that is just taking up space in your home? One of our club members has volunteered to help you clear out such equipment in an environmentally safe way, at no cost to you, while offering you the opportunity to help disabled people improve their quality of life. The SHARE Foundation, Inc. provides specially adapted computer systems to people with disabilities.

This is a win-win program. You win by experiencing the satisfaction of helping others and knowing that you have disposed of computer equipment in an environmentally sound way. Disabled people win by getting individually customized computer systems, outfitted with special switches or other devices that allow them to communicate in spite of severe disabilities. For these people, the computer truly becomes a "lifeline."

 
What to do:

1.	Make sure your equipment qualifies for this program. Monitors, CPUs, keyboards, mice, printers and any related equipment will be greatly appreciated. Please include any documentation, drivers and/or software with the equipment that you are donating.
	EXCEPTIONS:
	(a)	SHARE cannot accept Apple/Macintosh equipment.
	(b)	Any equipment with 5.25" floppy drives is not usable as it is not of adequate power or capacity for the purposes of this program.
2.	with the following information:
	(a)	Your full name, postal address, and phone number
	(b)	For each item you wish to donate, the item description, make, and model.

 

The information you furnish will be reviewed and you will receive a response letting you know where and when to drop off your equipment so that it can be taken to UMass Dartmouth for processing. If SHARE determines that the equipment can be used for the disabled, you will be sent a donation receipt for tax deduction purposes. If SHARE finds that the equipment cannot be used for this program, it will be recycled at no cost to you.

Thank you for your help!

Eleanor Buthmann, February 2002

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