Kramden Institute is constantly seeking equipment donations to support our Kramden Scholars and to help fund our efforts.

Used computer equipment for the support of the students we serve:

• PC Hard Drives- 20GB and larger
• PCs less than 5 years old
• Laptops- 700MHZ and faster
• PCMCIA wireless cards for laptops
• LCD Monitors in working condition
• USB flash (thumb) drives
• PC Memory- 256 MB and higher
• CDRW or DVD drives
• PC Speakers
• New headphones in package

Computer equipment and supplies for resale to help fund our efforts:

• New printers with cartridges
• Apple Computers Less than 3 years old
• New laser printer toner in original boxes
• Routers, switches, or hubs (particularly Gigabit switches)

Office and Warehouse Equipment and Supplies:

• Bar-code reader and software, for managing our inventory of computers
• Wheeled bread racks for storage
• Shelving
• Large Plastic Totes for storage
• Copy paper
• Orange traffic cones (6-8)

Follow these easy steps to donate equipment

1. Check our Minimum Requirements to ensure that your equipment can be accepted.
2. Make an appointment - Donations are accepted by appointment only. To make an appointment, please call 919-293-1133. 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. Thumb Drives can be mailed or dropped off at our office Monday through Friday 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM, or at any of our Kramden Events.
3. Consider a cash donation along with your equipment - For donations of LESS THAN 10 PCs/Monitors, please consider a monetary 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 gift will help us put your equipment donation to good use.
4. Please fill out Kramden's Equipment Donation Receipt prior to arriving. This will make the donation process much faster.

Minimum Requirements for Equipment Donations:

Desktops:

• Computers must have a Pentium III (or equivalent), and 800 MHz or higher processor. (All computers less than 5 years old should meet this requirement).
• Computers should be in working condition, and must not be stripped of parts.

Monitors:

• Monitors must be in good working order.
• We are not accepting CRT monitors at this time.
• LCD flat 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) 700 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.

Computer Equipment:

• Hard Disk Drives- 20 GB or higher in working condition
• Operating systems.Windows XP. The CDs, keycodes and certificates of authenticity (COAs) must accompany each OS.
• Memory -- 256 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.
• 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

USB Thumb Drives:

• 64 MB or higher

OTHER NEEDS

Professional Services/Assistance

• Graphic Designer, to help us with image modification on business cards and stationary

Warehouse Equipment

• Pallets
• Power Packs
• Shrink Wrap for moving and storing equipment.

Why Not?

• A nice-sized box truck or step van in good working order with a lift gate in the back.
• Fork Lift, in good working order.

Important Note:

All donations to Kramden Institute that meet our  requirements are eligible for a tax deduction to the full extent of the law.  A tax donation receipt will be provided at the time of donation. The value of the donated equipment for tax purposes will be solely determined by the donor. Donors may request to receive the acknowledgment 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 acknowledgments 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. By donating equipment to Kramden Institute, Inc. (Kramden), the donor acknowledges that this is an unconditional donation and transfers to Kramden all rights for use of the equipment and any data that might be contained therein.  Kramden will use the equipment as it sees fit which may include; refurbishment for educational and charitable purposes, use for spare parts, donation to a third party, scrap, recycling or resale to raise funds to support Kramden activities.

While Kramden uses general procedures to reformat and/or wipe data from hard drives from all donated equipment, it cannot guarantee the removal of information from contributed computers and assumes no responsibility for the removal of any information from contributed computers.