Donate Equipment
- Check our Minimum Requirements (below) to insure that your equipment can be accepted.
- Make an appointment - Donations are accepted by appointment only. To make an appointment, please call 919-638-6200. We ask that donors be responsible for transportation of the equipment to our facility. For larger donations, we can suggest low cost transportation in the local area.
- Donate - For donations of LESS THAN 10 PCs/Monitors, please consider a donation to help with our refurbishing costs. The average cost for us to refurbish a computer and award it to a child in need is $65. Your monetary donation will help us put your equipment donation to good use.
May we suggest the following minimum donations along with your equipment:
- $20 per PC
- $30 per PC without hard drive
- $10 per monitor
A cash donation is not required but it is very helpful.
A tax donation acknowledgement will be sent to donors, typically within 2-4 weeks, via email. The value of the donated equipment for tax purposes will be solely determined by the donor. Donors may request to receive the acknowledgement via postal mail. Kramden Institute has been issued a 501(c)(3) certification from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as a charitable, not-for-profit organization. Kramden Institute can issue acknowledgements for tax purposes to represent the donation of equipment at fair market value. The donor is responsible for determining his/her own fair market value.NOTE: Kramden Institute does not assume any liability for donated equipment or the disposition of computers, data contained therein or other donated equipment and software.
Minimum Requirements for Equipment Donations:
Desktops:
- Computers must have a Pentium III (or equivalent) 450 MHz or higher processor. (Computers that make this requirements are typically less than5 years old).
- Computers should be in working condition, and must not be stripped of parts.
- Monitors should be in good working order and CRTs should have a 15" to 17" screen (LCD panel monitors can be any size but must be working properly and come with the power supplies).
Laptops:
- Laptops -- must be in working condition and have a Pentium III (or equivalent) 450 MHz or higher processor. (Please no cracked screens or screens with more than 4 dead pixels) Laptops should include an AC adapter or power cord.
- We regret that we cannot accept Printers or Apple/Mac products.
EQUIPMENT NEEDS:
- Hard Disk Drives -- 20 GB and higher. In working condition.
- Operating systems. Windows XP. The CDs, keycodes and certificates of authenticity (COAs) must accompany each OS.
- Memory -- 128 MB or higher RAM sticks of all kinds, including laptop memory.
- Multiple donations (10 or more) of PCI sound cards, CD or CDRW or DVD drives, ethernet cards, PCI video cards, PCI Modems, etc.
OTHER NEEDS:
Office Equipment and Supplies
- Copier, digital, high speed, collating, good working condition
- Bar-code reading equipment and software, for managing our inventory of computers
- Copy paper
Warehouse Equipment
- Palettes
- Power Packs
- Shrink Wrap for moving and storing equipment.
Computer-Related
- Digital switches or routers
- Laptop memory cards (128 Mb or higher)Laptop hard drives
- Motherboard batteries (button batteries)
Higher Tech
- 19" half-rack used for server systems and networking equipment installation.
- Rack mounted server or blade server systems suitable for network based OS image loading of target PC systems.
- Rack mounted DASD (hard drive) storage system.... SCSI, iSCSI, or SATA.
- Rack mounted Ethernet networking equipment.... switches, routers, hubs. (Cisco, HP, etc....10/100mbps or Gigabit)
- Stand alone 10/100mbps or Gigabit Ethernet routers or hubs.... (Netgear, Linksys, Dlink, etc....)
- Rack mounted or stand alone multi-port KVM switches with cables.
Why not?
- Rack mounted Truck. A nice sized step van or box truck in good working order. We need to move around computers and monitors, sometimes 100+ at a time, often palletized, so a lit gate in the back would be ideal.
- Fork Lift. One of those nice yellow fork lifts in good working order.
