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Tis the Season for Thanking

12/13/2022

 
Thank you!
And we mean it -- straight from the Laptop Upcycle Lab in the basement of the United Way building. We are grateful to everyone who thought of us so that we could provide laptops to kids in need. Your generosity has allowed hundreds of students to get their work done.

And (drumroll please), we are thanking these organizations for their thoughtful 2022 thinking that’s helped so many:

Bloomberg Philanthropies
The Electronic Access Foundation
Boston Consulting Group
Essence Global Advertising
Guardian Data Destruction
T-Mobile Communications
The Sentinals-16
MFEE
Succeed2gether
Celonis


Finally, thank you to New Jersey Community Capital (owners of the old United Way building) for renting their generous space (even during construction!) As we enter the Season of Giving, we know that more students will need laptops to get their basic education.  Please consider adding your name to our thankful and thinking list for 2022 with a donation or proposal.
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Hotspots for Those In Need

7/24/2022

 
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Laptop Upcycle has successfully qualified as a participating organization of the T-Mobile Project 10 Million to help provide internet access to all students who need it. This means we have 240 hotspots to hand out to any family in need in our local area.  Go to our Get Technology page to see if you qualify.

If you own one of the more than 230 existing hotspots that we have given out in the past 5 years thanks to the generous grants from the Don Katz and Leslie Larson Foundation, please note that these have been disabled to due to a network consolidation by T-Mobile, and you are eligible for a replacement.

We have scheduled a delivery session for July 30 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM in the Laptop Upcycle Lab at 60 South Fullerton Ave, Montclair (use the side entrance and ring the bell if the door is locked).  Bring your old hotspot and get a replacement.  Or apply and get approved online this week. If you are not available this Saturday, please contact us and we can arrange another date/time to meet you.

All hotspots have filters for safe family browsing and are totally free with enough bandwidth for school work. Want to learn more?  Check out https://www.t-mobile.com/business/education/project-10-million

See you in the Lab.

Your Laptop Upcycle Team


Back in the Office? Be Like the Boston Consulting Group

3/10/2022

 
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Are you back in the office, at least part time?
That's great!

Did your IT department set you up with a new laptop?
 Awesome!

What do you reckon will happen to your existing (old) one?

Here's an idea. A number of local companies, large and small,  have made a difference by donating their prior stock to Laptop Upcycle. Like Laptop Legend Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Summit, NJ, who donated 52 Lenovo Thinkpads (left) today, your company could:
  • Be assured of secure destruction of the data (or you can donate them sans drives)
  • Direct your old tech to a local student who really needs it for school
  • Demonstrate its commitment to tech education and your community

Be Like BCG.
Contact your IT Department.

Send them a link to this page where they may also see the details of our donation (Give) process (follow the link). If they have any more questions, we're happy to answer them. They can email us and we will set up a call and a pick up.


National IT asset reselling podcast features Laptop Upcycle

2/26/2022

 
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Have you thought about how Laptop Upcycle gets So. Many. Laptops? Individual donations from generous and thoughtful community members are important (please keep ‘em coming) but there’s a reuse “pipeline” that contributes quite a bit.

Companies like Essence Global Advertising, BCG, Celonis and Pfizer choose to donate their laptops when they’re “retired” and we’re exceedingly grateful for their support of our underprivileged students. Companies, from Tier 1 to small businesses, make up a significant IT equipment repurposing cycle. As computer equipment such as laptops, desktops, servers, tablets, etc. (termed collectively as “IT assets”) are no longer needed, there is a nationwide reseller industry that evaluates them (called “grading”) for any retained value and remarkets them. Not only is this a green initiative but there is almost always a market for a functioning computer somewhere.

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At Laptop Upcycle, we are working to get the attention of corporations and resellers to create a larger laptop inventory feed so that we can continue to expand our program.

That’s why we were so pleased when Doug Green of Telecom Reseller invited us to be on his weekly podcast that showcases news for the corporate IT asset reseller market. 


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Sarah Damaskos, a Laptop Upcycle co-founder and board member, sat down (virtually) to tell the excellent historical and current view of Laptop Upcycle. She also noted the impact of the program, our intentionally-anonymous relationships with individual kids in need, and most importantly, our local approach. 
 

We’d like to thank Telecom Reseller for giving us the airtime to outline Laptop Upcycle’s growth mission in understandable terms that provides listeners a way to help.  

If you know a company -- perhaps yours? -- that’s planning an IT refresh and would like to donate their laptops for PR benefits, tax benefits and big-hearted benefits we want to talk to them! Did we mention benefits?

Thanks for reading, thanks for listening (our first podcast – woo hoo) and thanks for supporting us!


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