Linking Donors
together with
Nonprofit Recipients
We provide a convenient, secure, and easy to use means of exchange for donors and nonprofit recipients. The Nonprofit Recycling Network is focused on the productive transfer and reuse of office and school equipment.
Who We Serve
We're here for schools, churches, learning and activity centers, teachers, counselors, technicians, community leaders and organizers who hold interests in reusing office and school technology. We make it easy to keep good, used technology out of the waste stream while putting it back into service where it can help the most.
Projectors, Copiers, Accessories
Phone Systems, Storage Media & more
to Benefit the Non-Profit Sector
In the Classroom and for the Office
since 1994
Frequently Asked Questions
Table of Contents
Part 1 
Questions from Donors
Q 1: How do I offer to donate my items?
Q 2: What sort of items do you accept?
Q 3: Where are you located and do you pickup?
Q 4: How are donated items used?
Q 5: Is my contact information protected from spam or abuse?
Q 6: How do I change or cancel my offer once submitted?
Q 7: Do you assess a value for tax purposes?
Q 8: How may I be assured of an organization's IRS Status?
Q 9: Do you scrub, wipe, or clean hard drives?
Q 10: Do you provide EPA certification for donations of monitors?
Q 11: No one seems to want my old equipment. Can you give me any tips on how to get this junk out of my office?
Part 2
Questions from Participants
Q 1: How does our nonprofit group acquire a User ID number?
Q 2: Our User ID does not work or we lost it.
Q 3: How long must we wait for our application to be approved?
Q 4: We did not receive an email from Recycles.org. Why?
Q 5: Can our NPO participate if we do not have a webpage?
Q 6: Is this a free service?
Q 7: We're not affiliated with a nonprofit group and wish to participate. Does your service provide free computers, or can you refer us to assistance?
Q 8: How do we change our account information? Where do we login? What is our password?
Q 9: How do we make a request for equipment?
Q 10: What happens once I finally submit my request?
Q 11: How can we get more free request credits? Is there a limit to how many requests I can make?
Q 12: We need laptops, notebooks, and netbooks. We want a good, working, fast one, and it is best if we had it yesterday. Can you provide us with a free laptop computer?
Q 13: Our web site does not work, or is incomplete. We intend to complete your application process anyway just to see what happens. Will you accept our application?
Q 14: How can we increase our success with acquiring donations?
Q 15: I was searching your archives of older equipment offerings and noticed an item we would like to request. Is this equipment still available after all this time?
Q 16: We don't want to use our request credits on offerings that we have little chance of receiving. Can you offer some tips?
Q 17: How can I be sure the equipment I am requesting is in full working order?
Q 18: We have made a request and have not received a response. What is next? How do I know the status of each request I make?
Q 19: Why does your credit system count all requests and not just those for which equipment is actually received?
Q 20: I am a student, stay-at-home mom, disabled person, private individual, or a for-profit business enterprise. Will you accept my application?
Q 21: We are an International Organization (NGO) in a developing nation without a shipping representative in the USA. Can you help us?
Q 22: What are "Public Offerings"?
Q 23: Can we offer to pay for packaging and shipping?
Q 24: Can we request equipment offerings from far off locations when the offerer is UNWILLING to ship?
Q 25: What is the most common way to negotiate shipping?
Q 26: How can we increase donation offers in our locality?
Q 27: What about fraud and professionalism?
Q 28: Send your logo so we can put it on our website.
Q 29: I saw on another website a place where I can submit information about your website so others can learn about your great service. Can I submit your URL?
Q 30: You offer such a great and innovative service in so many ways, and I want to see you succeed. How can we support this project financially?
Q 31: This FAQ does not answer my question, or I noticed an abuse, misuse, error, or inconsistency.
