Volunteer for Experience or Donate your Computer Equipment

Project Gutenberg is an organization dedicated to converting the world's great documents into ASCII text, called "e-texts." We at the HTML Writers Guild are marking up these documents as either XHTML or XML, with free tutorials provided. This will be both a way that HWG members (join for free) can contribute to the cultural fabric of society and a useful way to get hands-on experience learning and working with XHTML and XML!

Get involved with TECH CORPS®. Today's students need a technologically advanced education today to compete in the workforce of tomorrow. Not all of our schools have the technological resources to enrich the education of today's students to adequately prepare them for the fierce competition that they will face as members of tomorrow's workforce. TECH CORPS® is the leading national nonprofit mobilizing technology volunteers into schools, offering tech support and teacher training. TECH CORPS® is also working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in their efforts to locate and recover missing children, promote child protection, and educate students on the safe use of the Internet.

GeekCorps helps communities around the world to gain access to information technology and to build businesses on the Web.

UNITeS (United Nations Information Technology Service), one of the largest initiatives in the world promoting volunteerism as a fundamental element to successful ICT4D efforts, and placing and supporting more than 200 volunteers applying ICT4D in countries of the "South."

Online Volunteering for opportunities in support of organizations serving the developing world. Managed by the UN Volunteers programme.

If you spend time on the Internet, especially in chat rooms, you know that there are creeps out there that prey on young or naive people. CyberAngels is one of the original Internet safety organizations, since 1995, offering online training classes on general Internet knowledge, online security, safety and privacy. CyberAngels' Net Patrol is a group of volunteers over the age of 18, who virtually patrol the Internet looking for child pornography, stalkers, child predators, groups advocating child abuse and pedophilia, hate and bigotry sites and scam artists. This site also has links to report child porn, or to report cyber emergencies (cyber 911).

Places to Donate and Recycle Computer Equipment

http://www.ntrp.org
The National Technology Recycling Project is a non-profit organization designed to help people recycle technology and to support non-profit technology recycling organizations across the United States.

http://www.eiae.org
The Consumer Education Initiative (CEI) is a program developed by the Environmental Issues Council of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA); its purpose is to inform consumers about recycling and reuse opportunities for used electronics. It includes a state-by-state list of electronics recyclers.

http://www.usedcomputer.com/nonprof.html
The listed non profit organizations are dedicated to recycling computers, office equipment, and other technology related items. Each organization has a different emphasis and process of donation, so look at these listings to see which one is most appropriate for the equipment you would like to donate or recycle.

http://www.microweb.com/pepsite/Recycle/recycle_index.html
PEP National Directory of Computer Recycling Programs
Resources for Parents, Educators & Publishers. A State, National and International Directory of agencies that facilitate donations of used computer hardware for schools and community groups.

http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org
World Computer Exchange (WCE) is a global nonprofit organization committed to helping the world's poorest youth bridge the disturbing global divides in information, technology and understanding. WCE does this by keeping donated PCs, Macs, and Laptops out of landfills and giving them new life connecting youth to the Internet in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.