Computer Donation Program
Do you or your company have old computers (working or not), monitor, printer or computer parts that you don't need any more? The M-A PTA refurbishes old computer equipment for needy, hard-working students who do not have access to a computer at home.
Since the program started in 1999, we have supplied over 5,000 computers to hard-working, deserving students at our local public high schools (Menlo-Atherton, Sequoia, Woodside, and Carlmont), plus a cart with 42 laptop computers to the Science Department, dozens of computers for classroom mini-labs, dozens of network laser printers to replace ancient classroom inkjet printers, networking equipment, and dozens of digital cameras for students in the Digital Photography class.
We securely erase all information from the hard drives before
loading new software and distributing them.
Donations are tax-deductible and we provide receipts.
We are always looking for these items:
- Windows computers, working or not
- Working flat-panel computer monitors
- Hard drives, any size or format
- USB flash drives and camera memory cards, any size
- Mice (any type)
- Keyboards
- Most computer parts or cables
- Computer memory - any speed, any capacity, any format
- Macintosh computers running Lion, Snow Leopard, or Leopard (OS 10.5, 10.6 or 10.7). Sorry, but we can't use older Macs
- Hewlett-Packard laser printers for our classrooms
- Brother network laser printers for our classrooms
- Wireless network adapters, routers and antennas
- Ethernet cables, especially long cables
- Ethernet switches
- Digital cameras for students in our Digital Photography class
- Digital memory cards for cameras
- Laptop power adapters and cords
- Tax-deductible donations to pay for purchased parts such as flash memory drives and wireless network adapters
- Projectors to display computer output on a large screen
- Legal copies of Microsoft Office for Mac or Windows
- Legal copies of Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Creative Suite, any version, Windows or Mac
- Many other miscellaneous items - email or call and ask if you have other stuff to donate.
If you are donating items on the list above, as a courtesy we can recycle any unwanted e-waste for you, in an environmentally-friendly fashion. And yes, we can provide a tax-deductible receipt for anything you donate.
If you have one item (or a truckload!) to donate, please
contact Sue Kayton at 650-853-1711 or
kayton@alum.mit.edu. To request donation of a computer, or computer
repair, please have your teacher contact Sue via email.
Links to
Menlo-Atherton High School
M-A High PTA home page
M-A High PTA
Outreach (donation) programs page
Thank you to our many corporate donors for helping bridge the
digital divide.
