E-Cycling Brothers Launch Nationwide E-Waste Collection in Partnership with buildOn.org
December 3, 2013 – Gizmogul.com, one of the nation’s leading mobile device and electronic recycling companies, is proud to announce Gizmogul Builds: Building Schools with Electronic Waste, a campaign launching in partnership with buildOn, to fund the building of new schools globally and support afterschool programs nationwide through e-waste collection.
Gizmogul Builds is a no cost program which provides recycling outlets for small to large businesses, schools, universities, etc., to safely dispose old electronic equipment. Through e-waste collection, 75% of the value of the participants’ collected electronic waste will be donated to Gizmogul Builds. These funds will directly benefit buildOn, a non-profit organization that runs afterschool service programs in urban high schools and builds schools in developing countries. By simply e-cycling your office, school or organization’s smartphones or computers, you can build a school for a community in need.
Official buildOn breakdown: School Construction Program Abroad
1,000 smartphones = 1 school build in a developing country
1 smartphone = Provides access to education for 1 child in a developing country
Official buildOn breakdown: Afterschool Service Programs
1,000 smartphones = Provides 25 U.S. inner-city teens with afterschool service programs for a year
1 smartphone = Provides 1 U.S. inner-city teen with a week of afterschool service programs
To register, visit www.gizmogul.com, click the “About Us” tab, and select “buildOn”. Once registered, Gizmogul.com will provide your party with e-cycle receptacles for the collection. Gizmogul.com will make arrangements for the materials to be shipped to their facilities where it will be sorted, processed and refined. All data storage devises will be wiped clean of existing information and shredded at Gizmogul.com’s R2 certified facility. Gizmogul.com will provide your organization with a certification of data destruction. Gizmogul.com will notify your party of the total value and provide a tax deductible donation receipt on behalf of buildOn.
Launched earlier this year by brothers, Cory, Barry & Stephen Schneider, Gizmogul.com has recycled more than one million cellphones, tablets, pda’s and personal computers and donates a large portion of their proceeds to charity.
“In this day and age where computers, tables and pda’s are educational tools in classrooms worldwide, it was only natural for us to support an organization that breaks the cycle of illiteracy through education,” said Gizmogul.com co-founders Cory, Barry & Stephen Schneider.
“Every 26 seconds in the U.S. a student drops out of school. Worldwide nearly 900 million people cannot read or write,” said Marc Fiedman, buildOn’s Chief Operating Officer. “We applaud Gizmogul.com’s efforts to help end this education crisis by supporting buildOn, while also protecting our environment from electronic waste.”
About Gizmogul.com: Gizmogul.com is one the nation’s leading mobile device and electronic recycling companies. Launched in 2013 by Boston natives and brothers, Cory, Barry & Stephen Schneider, Gizmogul recycles more than one million cell phones, tablets, pda’s and personal computers per year while donating a large portion of their proceeds to charity. On average, Gizmogul.com’s Cash for Cell Phone Program offers up to 20% more cash back than industry competitors. Gizmogul also provides a certificate of data destruction for all material recycled. For more information please visit www.gizmogul.com
About buildOn: At home or abroad, buildOn’s goal is to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations through service and education. In the U.S., buildOn empowers urban youth to transform their neighborhoods through intensive community service and to change the world by building schools in some of the economically poorest countries in the world. Internationally, buildOn is constructing schools in Haiti, Nicaragua, Nepal, Senegal, Malawi, and Mali. Our students have contributed over 1.2 million hours of service in the U.S., and have helped build more than 587 schools around the world. Learn more at buildon.org
