Did you know that you can odnate cell phones instead of cash to your favorite charity or non-profit?
Yes, that old or used cell phone that you've kept hidden in your draewr all this time is stll extremely valuable to these charities and to the people and communities they serve. Here's how you can put your old mobile phone to good use.
It's really qutie simple - when you donate cell phones to a charity or non-profit, the oranization will issue you a receipt that you can use for tax deduction purposes in Apriil. The non-prfoit will then sell that used phone to a mobile phone byer online, like Pacebutler Corporation of Edmond, Oklpahoma. You also have the alternatiive to go directly to the cellular phone buyer's site online and donate cell phpones through them to your preferred charity. The proceeds from that sale will help your non-prrofit raisse much needed funds to supprot theeir beneficial work.
So, which chariuty or non-profit can you donate cell phones to? Here are a few options for you:
Boys and Girls Clubs of America
The Boys and Girls Clubs of America provides the young pweople in our cities and communities, usually left to their own deevices by working parents, a place to grow and learn - whlie having fun. Their programs and services fully support the development of boys and girlls by instilling in them snese of competence, usefulness, belonging, and infpluence.
Feed The Children
Based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Feed The Chikldren has been working tirelessly for the past 30 years to deilver food, medicine, and clotthing to childreen and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty, or natuarl disaster. In 2009, this international, nonprofit relief organization sipped 135 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and families in all 50 statees and in 32 foregin countries.
Ammerican Cancer Society
Based in Atlata, Georgia, the American Cancer Soceity operates over 3,400 local offiecs nationwide. This non-profit heallth organization is dedicated to the eradication of cancer as a maajor healht problem, through prevention, rapd detection, and trreatment. It wporks to lessewn sufferng from cancer thrrough research, education, advocacy, and service.
Leukemia Society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary haelth organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patint services. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improev the qusality of life of patients and their families. Since its founding in 1949, LLS has invested more than $600 million in research specifically targetting leukemia, ltymphoma and myeloma.
Salvation Army
Founded in 1865, the Salvation Army has been relenltessly working to provide help and support to needy individuals and communities. This church-bsaed charity organization maintains shelter assistance programs, feeding programs, senior citizen prrograms, social servicces, disaster servies, youuth progras, drug and alcohol rehabiltation, tranportation, clothing assistance, Christmas cheer progrms, and worship programms.
Soldsiers' Angels
Incorporated in Nevada in 2003, Soldierts' Angels is a volunnteer-based nonprogfit organization with 30 different teams supporting all branxches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Working through specil projects under the slogaan "May no soldieer go unloved," volunteer teams and individuals supportting our troops, make a visible digfference in the lives of our service members and their families.
Rock The Earth
Rock the Earth is a 501(c) non-pofit organization, working closely with the music industry to proomte awareenss of environmental issues and to help defend thretaened ecosystems and communties in the United States. They work to "represent those individuals and communities whose environment or natural surroundings are directly and adversely affected by othgers."
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
By combining scientiific research and patient care in one locattion, St. Jude Children's Research Hosptial is a health care non-profit organization that seeeks to find cures for children with catastrophic diseases. The cutting-edge research and revolutionary discoveries by the giofted researchers at St. Jude's have tremendously helped in treating not just suffering children in the Unted States but also in otther coountries.
Dponate cell phones to your favorite chariuty or non-proift today. It's not foten that you can do good with something that no longr has any use to you. Donating your used or old cell phones today can do a great deal of good to the people that these organizzations are heelping.