InterConnection (www.InterConnection.org), a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, provides high-quality refurbished desktop and laptop computers to nonprofit organizations around the world. InterConnection’s mission is to provide other nonprofits and NGOs with access to computers and technology, regardless of their geographic location or economic resources.
Since 1999, InterConnection has shipped tens of thousands of computers to organizations in 38 countries, and in the process has provided workforce development training to more than 3,500 individuals in the Seattle area, teaching them valuable computer hardware repair and upgrade skills.
TechSoup (www.techsoup.org) is the technology Web site for nonprofits created by CompuMentor (www.compumentor.org). Each month, TechSoup receives more than 400,000 visits from people who are looking for nonprofit tech know-how to achieve their missions.
InterConnection was selected by TechSoup to be the only nonprofit organization in the nation to provide computers for TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative Program.
InterConnection, based in Seattle, picks up surplus computer equipment from businesses, refurbishes it, and distributes computers to nonprofits and charitable organizations in the U.S. and worldwide. TechSoup recognized the quality of refurbished computers provided by InterConnection and chose to offer their product to qualifying nonprofits. The partnership creates yet another avenue where surplus computer equipment from businesses, donated to InterConnection, will be provided to the nonprofit sector for reuse.
InterConnection, which currently refurbishes approximately 5,000 computers per year, expects to ship an additional 400 computers per month as a result of this partnership. All computers refurbished by InterConnection pass a series of diagnostic tests and are reinstalled with licensed Microsoft software.
The partnership between InterConnection and TechSoup ensures a corporation’s donation will be used for charitable purposes. InterConnection addresses the primary concerns to computer donations: data security and an easy, cost-free process.
Nonprofits that order from TechSoup may now get a refurbished computer from InterConnection’s corporate computer donors including Nintendo, Alaska Airlines, Real Networks or one of many other Seattle companies.
