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- EIN 46-2199564
- (530) 208-0690
- 68 Jay St Ste 201 Brooklyn NY 11201-8359 USA
- www.tech-fin.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Financial Counseling, Human Services
Mission: Techf. I. N seeks to address an alarming trend in america. Millions of low income families lack access to a computer in the home. This lack of access contributes to a growing digital divide where completing schoolwork, or college and job applications becomes increasingly difficult. Yet, in this environment u. S. Companies dispose of millions of functional computers every year, per their upgrade cycle. In a solution that is both sustainable and beneficial, techf. I. N aspires to divert some of these machines from the scrap heap to the living room.
Programs: Techfin offers one singular program: providing lower income households with used but still working corporate computers. Corporate donors will donate computers to techfin. In most cases they have the machines delivered to our facility. Sometimes we are required to pick them up. Depending on the size and location of the donation we may hire a moving company, leverage ups/fedex, or rent a uhaul and pick it up ourselves. From there we store the computers, repurpose them, clean the harddrive, and reload mostly free software. We then deliver the repurposed machines to the low income family; usually directly to a child via our relationship with their charter school or after schoool program. We leverage such organizations to nominate appropriate recipients.