Upcoming Volunteer Day & PittsburghCares.org

  • Community Impact
  • Volunteers
    • We’re having another big volunteer work day next Saturday, April 27th from 8:00am – 4:00pm, with most of the work taking place in the morning. We have 2 objectives for the day: imaging and moving.  Ubuntu imaging will take place over a PXE Server system at ITT Tech. Box moving of over 100 computers will...

    Back with Duquesne University Students

    • Community Impact
    • Volunteers
      • We had another great work day with volunteer students from Duquesne University at the Goodwill Apple “Annex” at 2400 Carson Street on the South Side of Pittsburgh. This video shows our 7th week, working on recycling the 50th computer with the students! This has been a great partnership over the course of the Spring semester....

      LibrePlanet 2013

      • Community Impact
      • Computers
        • Beth Lynn Eicher, a free software expert with fourteen years of free software support experience nationally and abroad, will be a featured speaker at LibrePlanet’s conference at Harvard University this weekend, March 23-24. This annual conference brings together global free software community developers, activists, academics and computer users to promote the distribution of free software...

        Help Put Computers in Students’ Hands

        • Community Impact
          • As of this month, our Pittsburgh area volunteers have refurbished for re-use 4,051 Computers! This is an amazing number that we are so proud to share with you. But, we always want more! That’s why we can use your help to fund several local school projects. When we place a computer in a school, each...

          Duquesne Students Return to Volunteer with CR!

          • Community Impact
          • Volunteers
            • We had two more days of computer recycling with students from Duquesne University. It’s been great to have a different mix of students each week so more learn about the importance of eWaste recycling. In the video from Week 2, meet five students, led by Lorraine Sauchin, who helped us with important demanufacturing steps. Below...