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Old cell phones
are best recycled at Collective Good. They partner with top-rated
charitable organizations to help them raise much-needed funds by
organizing mobile phone recycling collections. If you have
a spare mobile phone and want to dispose of it in a socially and
environmentally responsible manner, read on! By donating
your cell phone to one of these charities, you have set a lot
of good into motion!
Simply
select a charity (see list below), download and fill out the form,
wrap it around your phone – including accessories and mail
it in to the address on the donation form.
The forms to
Recycle Cell Phones are in pdf format
which requires a copy of Adobe Acrobat reader. If you do not have
the reader, click below to download a free copy.
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We are proud to be affiliated
with the following charities for old cell phone recycling:
Recycle
Cell Phones with
your favorite charitable organisation. (Cell old phone recycle,
cell phone recycle used and cash cell phone recycle)
Adopt
An Acre / RedJellyFish.com - Includes Free Phone Shipping Label!!
Transform your
spare mobile phone into the preservation of rainforest lands through
The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt An Acre program. Our supporters are
proving that the beautiful tropical forests and pristine coral reefs
of the Maya Mountain Marine Corridor can be saved in the same way
they are being lost...acre by acre. This is a great opportunity
to preserve these precious rainforest lands forever!
Airline
Ambassadors
Airline Ambassadors
International is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping
children in need. Our members hand-deliver humanitarian aid and
provide medical care to children in more than 34 countries; escort
orphans to new homes and children to hospitals for medical care;
and participate in events that increase international cooperation.
For every dollar donated, we have been able to arrange for the donation
and delivery of over $100 worth of aid.
American
Humane Association
Founded in 1877,
the American Humane Association is the nation’s only national organization
dedicated to both child and animal protection. American Humane’s
work includes increasing the abilities, knowledge, and effectiveness
of child protection professionals; enhancing each community’s capacity
to respond effectively to the needs of children and families; developing
and promoting humane education; rescuing animals during disasters;
providing support to animal shelter professionals through grants
and education; providing research-based technical assistance to
child and animal welfare agencies; and serving as the nation’s only
organization with the jurisdiction to protect the rights and welfare
of animal actors in movies and television.
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Animal
Foundation
The City of Las
Vegas’ Animal Shelter is the Animal Foundation. The Foundation’s mission
is to save lives and it’s reaching this goal. Help us find a
home for them all. Our innovative idea is to become the first "no-kill"
city in the country.
CARE
CARE is one
of the world's largest international relief and development organizations,
working in more than 60 countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific,
Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Care's mission is to relieve
human suffering, to provide economic opportunity and to build sustained
capacity for self-help in some of the poorest communities of the
world. For more information about CARE call: 1-800-422-7385 or see
http://www.careusa.org/.
Cherokee
County (Georgia)
Cherokee County
wants your spare mobile phones. Donating your phone generates funds
for our programs in your community and helps preserve the environment
by keeping them out of our landfills. Your donations are tax-deductible
as an in-kind donation.
Childkind
Childkind
is the only agency in Georgia focused on building stable and nurturing
homes for kids with very complicated medical challenges. We
have three primary goals: to provide safe, secure and nurturing
homes for medically fragile and HIV+/AIDS affected children; to
offer HIV+ parents affordable daycare; and to educate Georgia's
citizens on the needs of medically fragile and HIV+/AIDS affected
children.
Children's
National Medical Center
For more than
125 years, Children's has been serving the health care needs of
children and families throughout the Washington, D.C. area. One
word describes the principles behind the CNMC mission: C.A.R.E.,
which stands for Care, Advocacy, Research and Education.
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Christmas
In April - Rebuilding Together
Christmas in
April provides assistance to people who own their own home but who,
because of physical limitation or income, are not able to cover
the costs of home repair. Typically, these individuals have a disability
and/or are elderly, but low-income families and non-profit facilities
such as schools, shelters and daycare centers are also included.
Christmas in April does more with less. Every dollar spent is leveraged
with over $4 in donated goods and services. It works because it's
neighbor-helping-neighbor to build safer and stronger communities.
Computers
For Schools
The proliferation
of computer technology into mainstream society over the past ten
years has created a societal imperative to redirect prematurely
retired computers properly and to help teach our children how to
utilize technology. The Computers For Schools Program is committed
to creating and maintaining extraordinary partnerships to assist
schools in attaining the technology they need; expanding and improving
education for our entire nation.
Disability
Resources
“It is our
goal that each and every person with a disability live a life of
maximum independence with minimal public assistance”. Disability
Resources, Inc. has been serving people with disabilities since
1993. The agency currently operates 4 programs: Job Development,
Supportive Living, NewToYou Computers (a computer-recycling
program) and the Respite program.
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Environmental
Defense
Environmental
Defense is a leading national nonprofit organization representing
more than 300,000 members. Since 1967, we have linked science, economics
and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions
to society's most urgent environmental problems. Environmental Defense
is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people,
including future generations. Among these rights are clean air and
water, healthy and nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem.
Florida
Emergency Medical Foundation
The Florida
Emergency Medicine Foundation (FEMF) is dedicated to promoting and
advancing emergency medicine, disaster management, out of hospital
emergency care, and public health by providing education and research
activities. The FEMF is committed to the right of every individual
to "access to delivery of quality emergency services and care."
Friends
Of Wayne (New Jersey) Animal Shelter
"He who is
cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We
can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel
Kant
Friends of Wayne animal shelter uses funds generated through this
program to protect the lives of animals in the Wayne New Jersey
area.
Friends Without A Border
ANGKOR HOSPITAL
FOR CHILDREN, in Siem Reap, Cambodia is funded and managed by Friends
Without a Border, a non-profit organization based in New York and
Tokyo. Since opening in 1999, the hospital’s mission has been to
provide medical care for the children of Siem Reap, and to train
the next generation of Cambodian doctors, nurses and other health
care workers.
Gail
P. Ramos Foundation
Our mission
statement is simple - the elimination of lung cancer as a life-threatening
illness via a cure or sufficient treatment options to provide a
high-quality of life and management of the disease as a chronic
condition. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death
for both men and women. More people die annually of lung cancer
than of colon, breast, and prostate cancer combined. In 2002, there
will be about 169,400 new cases of lung cancer. About 154,900 people
will die of this disease: 89,200 men and 65,700 women.
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Grameen
Foundation USA
"Grameen has
gone from a tiny project in one village to a nationwide bank in
Bangladesh to a worldwide movement. Grameen Foundation USA will
play the role of catalyst - helping ensure that the movement grows,
and that the poorest of the poor are the direct beneficiaries of
that growth."
- Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank Founder and Managing Director,
GF-USA Board member. Revenues from the sale of the phones
donated will be used by Grameen Foundation USA to further the successful
anti-poverty programs of the Grameen Bank and related Grameen institutions
on a global scale.
Habitat
For Humanity Traverse City (MI) -- Sponsored by
NPI Wireless
Habitat for
Humanity International is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian
housing organization. We welcome all people to join us as we build
simple, decent, affordable, houses in partnership with those in
need of adequate shelter. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than
125,000 houses in more than 80 countries, including some 45,000
houses across the United States.100% of the funds generated by this
program are donated to the Habitat for Humanity Grand Traverse Chapter.
Please note
that you will not be eligible for a tax-deduction for your donated
phone through this program because technically, it is NPI Wireless
making the donation to Habitat For Humanity.
Help
of Southern Nevada
HELP assists more
than 35,000 people each year in solving problems in the following
areas: Information & Referral (I & R), Community Alternative
Sentencing (CAS), Displaced Homemaker (DH), Family Resource Centers,
Weatherization, Travelers Aid, Direct Services and more. All
funds are used within the State of Nevada
High
Desert Domestic Violence Center (CA)
High Desert
Domestic Violence provides volunteer training, a temporary restraining
order clinic, peer support, professional counseling, and an emergency
shelter. Help convert your spare mobile phone into funds used
to protect women and children from domestic violence.
Keep
Blount Beautiful
Keep Blount
Beautiful is non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to litter
prevention and solid waste management through education, public
awareness and citizen involvement. Keep the Blount Beautiful
coordinates Adopt-A-Mile, Great America Clean-Up, river cleanups
and the Landfill Learning Center programs, just to name a few.
Keep
Collier Beautiful
Keep Collier
Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, wants your spare
mobile phones. Donating your phone generates funds for our environmental
programs in your community and also helps preserve the environment
by keeping them out of our landfills. These programs include the
successful Adopt-a-Shore and Adopt-A-Canal programs. Your donations
are tax-deductible as an in-kind donation.
Keep
Hall Beautiful
Keep Hall Beautiful,
an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, wants your spare mobile
phones. Donating your phone generates funds for our environmental
programs in your community and also helps preserve the environment
by keeping them out of our landfills. Your donations are tax-deductible
as an in-kind donation.
Keep
Madison Beautiful
Keep
Madison County Beautiful wants your spare mobile phones.
Everyone deserves to live in a community
environment that is healthy, safe, clean and beautiful, and we all
have a role to play in achieving this goal. Donating
your phone generates funds for our programs in your community and
helps preserve the environment by keeping them out of our landfills.
Your donations are tax-deductible as an in-kind donation.
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Keep
Mobile Beautiful
Keep Mobile
Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, wants your spare
mobile phones. Donating your phone generates funds for our environmental
programs in your community and also helps preserve the environment
by keeping them out of our landfills. Your donations are tax-deductible
as an in-kind donation.
Keep
Roswell Beautiful
Keep Roswell
Beautiful wants you to improve the quality of the environment in
Roswell by recycling your mobile phone. You can either send
it in using the link below, or bring it in to the county recycling
center. Donating your phone generates funds for our environmental
programs such as Rivers Alive River Clean Up, America Recycles Day
and Bring one for the chipper. Your donations are tax-deductible
as an in-kind donation.
Keep
Sandy Springs / North Fulton Beautiful
Keep Sandy Springs
North Fulton Beautiful, Inc. is dedicated to educating, influencing,
and activating our community in the beautification, conservation,
and preservation of our environment. Our programs educate individuals
about litter prevention, beautification and ways to reduce, reuse,
recycle and properly manage waste materials.
Keep
Stamford Beautiful
Keep Stamford
Beautiful is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to preserve
and enhance the appearance of Stamford, Connecticut through public
education and community improvement programs. Our common goal is
to enhance the quality of life and economic development in Stamford
by instilling pride, positive attitude and behavior change regarding
natural resource preservation, littering, recycling, proper solid
waste management and beautification.
Keep
The Midlands Beautiful
Keep The Midlands
Beautiful is non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to litter
prevention and solid waste management through education, public
awareness and citizen involvement. Programs include Programs include
Adopt-A-Highway and Adopt-A-Street, Grinding of the Greens, Telephone
Book Recycling and River Sweep, just to name a few. Our motto
is “Empowering Individuals to Take Greater Responsibility for Enhancing
the Community”.
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Keepers
of the Wild
Keepers of the
Wild is a non-profit sanctuary dedicated to the rescuing of endangered
species. The preservation and protection of these wonderful, exotic
animals is paramount in our hearts and minds. For many of the animals,
this is their last chance for a life of peaceful coexistence with
man.
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Knoxville
Recycling Coalition
The Knoxville
Recycling Coalition is a grassroots, non-profit organization seeking
sensible, environmentally sound waste management practices. The
Knoxville Recycling Coalition brings together local citizens, businesses,
environmental and community groups in the Knoxville area to support
the concept and practice of recycling. Through public education,
workshops and demonstration projects, the Coalition is striving
to move our community into a new era of waste management. This new
era of waste management will have as its center piece waste reduction,
recycling, composting and mulching of yard and food waste, and the
proper disposal of household hazardous waste.
Lance
Armstrong Foundation
I was inspired
by cancer survivor and Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong to
do more than I ever thought possible for myself: I rode my bicycle
93 miles over 4 Sierra mountain passes in 1 day to raise funds for
the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Your donation of spare cell phones
helps the fight against cancer in two ways: You make the environment
safer by keeping phones and their toxic contents out of landfills,
secondly, all proceeds go to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which
supports cancer survivor services, community programs, advocacy
and research.
Make-A-Wish
of Eastern Tennessee
The Make-A-Wish
Foundation® of Eastern Tennessee grants wishes to children under
the age of 18 with life-threatening illnesses. By donating your
used mobile phone, you help us grant wishes to children in our area.
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Make-A-Wish
of Greater Atlanta and North Georgia
The Make-A-Wish
Foundation® grants wishes to children under the age of 18 with life-threatening
illnesses. They are the largest wish-granting organization in the
world, with 80 chapters in the United States and its territories,
and 20 international affiliates on five continents. Since being
founded in 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona, the Make-A-Wish Foundation
has granted a wish to every qualified child referred to us—in
the United States, more than 66,000 children total, and nearly 8,100
in FY 1999 alone.
Media
Partners for Pets
Media Partners
for Pets helps the public to learn about responsible pet ownership
and alternatives to taking an animal to the shelter. Low-cost vaccinations
and behavioral referrals are also made available. Vital partners
in this endeavor to save the lives of hundreds of animals are Dewey
Animal Care Center, Clark County Animal Control, Veterinary Centers
of America, community-minded business sponsors, and generous individuals
like you, who care about the futures of these animals.
Metro
Augusta / Columbia County
Clean and Beautiful
Augusta Clean
& Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, wants your
spare mobile phones. Donating your phone generates funds for our
programs in your community and helps preserve the environment by
keeping them out of our landfills.
Mile
Hi Humane Society
The Mile Hi
Humane Society is a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated
to the care of homeless animals. Our operations are funded by donations
and the fees for the services that we provide. Our mission is to
offer refuge, medical care, nourishment and an opportunity for a
second chance for life to unwanted animals in our community, to
protect animals from cruelty, neglect, carelessness and ignorance,
to offer a public sentiment of humanity and gentleness toward animals
and to encourage and promote responsible pet ownership
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National
Taxpayers Union
National Taxpayers
Union has been your watchdog since 1969 – in favor of responsible
spending and against excessive taxes and political pork. National
Taxpayers Union is the most effective grassroots lobby in favor
of rational and limited government. Your mobile phones help fund
NTU’s work on your behalf, including: research and testimony on
responsible ways to reduce taxes; the only complete scorecard on
every roll call vote of every Senator and Representative, Vote Alerts
and the Activist Bulletin Board. Help NTU do the right thing in
Washington DC.
Operation
Kindness
Founded in
1976, Operation Kindness is the oldest and largest no-kill shelter
in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. We never euthanize an animal to make
room for another. We care for an average of 180-210 animals on a
day-to-day basis, with another 60-80 animals in foster homes. More
than 2,800 dogs and cats are adopted from Operation Kindness each
year.
Parent
Patrol of Reno, Nevada
Parent Patrol
Inc. is a grass roots non-profit organization, founded and organized
by parents who believe a positive, visual presence of informed,
trained and involved parents make a difference for child safety
in and around our schools.
Positively
Kids
The Foundation
for Positively Kids is raising money to open and financially support
the on-going operations of a pediatric skilled nursing facility
in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our goal is to provide 24 hour nursing care
and therapies to medically fragile and terminally ill children and
offering support and training to families of the children we serve.
Rebuilding Together of Pasadena
Rebuilding
Together provides assistance to people who own their own home but
who, because of physical limitation or income, are not able to cover
the costs of home repair. Typically, these individuals have a disability
and/or are elderly, but low-income families and non-profit facilities
such as schools, shelters and daycare centers are also included.
Rebuilding Together does more with less - donated materials and
volunteer skilled labor enables Rebuilding Together programs to
leverage six dollars of repairs for each dollar contributed. It
works because it's neighbor-helping-neighbor to build safer and
stronger communities.
Rebuilding Together of Silicon Valley
Rebuilding
Together Silicon Valley rehabilitates the homes of low-income homeowners
so that they may live in warmth, safety and independence and repairs
nonprofit facilities so they are better able to serve our community.
Typically, these individuals have a disability and/or are elderly,
but low-income families and non-profit facilities such as schools,
shelters and daycare centers are also included. Rebuilding Together
does more with less. Donated materials and volunteer skilled labor
enables Rebuilding Together programs to leverage six dollars of
repairs for each dollar contributed. It works because it's neighbor-helping-neighbor
to build safer and stronger communities.
Ronald
McDonald House Of Central Georgia
The mission
of the Ronald McDonald House of Central Georgia is to provide care
and comfort for the families of seriously ill or critically injured
children being treated at area hospitals. This "Home Away From Home"
will provide nearly 5,000 room nights annually to families who are
experiencing tremendous financial, physical and emotional stress
of dealing with a hospitalized child.
Scotland
County Humane Society
The Scotland
County Humane Society is a non-profit animal welfare organization
dedicated to protecting animals. Our mission is to protect, shelter
and promote adoption of unwanted animals, to provide education about
responsible pet ownership and to reduce pet overpopulation through
spay/neuter programs.
Servlife
International
Servlife International
wants your spare mobile phones. Donating your phone generates funds
for our programs to advance the gospel around the world. In addition,
it helps preserve the environment by keeping phones out of landfills.
Your donations are tax-deductible as an in-kind donation.
Shreveport
Green
Shreveport Green wants your spare mobile phones.
Donating your phone generates funds for our programs in your community
and helps preserve the environment by keeping them out of our landfills.
Your donation is tax-deductible. Our vision for Shreveport is a
clean, green, physically enhanced community whose citizens exhibit
a strong sense of pride and concern about the environment. We maintain
that an attractive city promotes respect and economic development.
Sierra
Club - Staples Mobile Devices Recycling Program
Recycle
your spare mobile devices at any Staples store in the US to protect
the environment and to support the Sierra Club
CollectiveGood and Staples now offer a nationwide
Mobile Devices Recycling program in all Staples stores that makes
it easy for customers to recycle their used cell phones, PDAs, pagers
and rechargeable batteries. Customers can recycle these devices
by simply dropping them off while they shop at their local Staples
store. A large portion of the proceeds generated from recycling
the mobile electronics devices will be donated to the Sierra Club,
America’s largest grassroots environmental organization to fund
environmental education and conservation programs.
Get
complete program information
Learn more about Sierra Club
SPCA
of Texas- Established in 1938, the SPCA of Texas has been
a leader among humane societies in Texas for over 55 years. We seek
to uplift the community by encouraging the humane treatment of all
animals. After all, a better world for animals will be a better
world for people too!
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SPCA
of Wake County, North Carolina
The SPCA of
Wake County is a non-profit animal welfare organization dedicated
to the prevention of cruelty to animals and the creation of a more
responsible and humane community. Our mission is to protect, shelter
and promote adoption of unwanted animals, to provide education about
responsible pet ownership and to reduce pet overpopulation through
spay/neuter programs.
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WasteCap
WasteCap of
Massachusetts is the statewide, non-profit, public/private partnership
working with the business community to develop and implement cost-effective
recycling, buy recycled, reuse, and waste reduction programs. WasteCap’s
services and resources focus on assisting Massachusetts companies
to find workable, cost-effective, and environmentally appropriate
solutions to their solid waste management problems.
Winnipeg
Refugee Education Network (WREN)
Winnipeg Refugee
Education Network (WREN) is devoted to improving conditions for
refugee children around the world. We are doing this through the
Refugee Education Sponsorship Program: Enhancing Communities Together
(RESPECT). RESPECT is working towards improving the quality of life
and future potential for refugee children caught in conflict by
helping to outfit schools in refugee communities with proper teaching
and learning supplies such as science equipment, computers, books,
paper, and pens.
Women
in Film and Video
Women in Film
& Video (WIFV) of Washington, DC is a 501 (C) (3) nonprofit
organization dedicated to advancing professional development and
achievement for women working in all areas of film, video, multimedia,
and related disciplines.
Working
Assets Wireless Charity Fund
Help Working
Assets fund philanthropy and political activism while bridging the
digital divide in Latin America. This program solves the dilemma
that so many mobile phone users face: What do I do with this extra
cell phone? Proceeds from the sale of these phones will be
used by Working Assets to fund about 55 nonprofit groups. The organizations
fall into five categories: Economic & Social Justice, Environment,
Civil Rights, Peace & International Development and Education
& Freedom of Expression.
YWCA
Of San Diego
The YWCA empowers
women and girls by offering a wide range of services and programs
that enrich and transform their lives. We encourage women to exercise
their political clout at the Institute for Public Leadership. We
embrace and promote social justice by annually presenting the YWCA
Week Without Violence® and the YWCA National Day of Commitment to
Eliminate Racism.
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