Marie Arrington Hinton Foundation Inc
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computer refurbishing
This program supports the technology side the Purple Elephant. We receive and sort donated equipment.
PC's are tested and evaluated to determine if they meet, or can be upgraded to, our minimum configuration requirement for refurbishing. Refurbishing includes: adding any needed hardware (e.g., memory), wiping the hard drive, loading a Windows OS and other software, verifying drivers, and final QA.
Keyboards, mice, speakers, monitors and printers are cleaned and tested.
Any equipment that can not be refurbished and reused are prepared for a technology recyler (i.e., does not go to the landfill).
Elephant Walk and Stampede
This Elephant Walk (1 mile) and Stampede (5 K) is a summer fund raising event to place home computers with needy kids in the RTP area, at no cost to their families.
We work with specific organizations to identify kids who need a home computer for the upcoming school year.
Funds are raised by charging the participants, and by sponsorships (3 levels). Our target is to net $100 per child who will receive a computer PC. (The Purple Elephant normally sells its computers for $100-$200 per internet-ready PC system.)
Expenses include the cost for the venue, T-shirts for participants and volunteers, refreshments (water, food), etc.
Purple Elephant Store
The Purple Elephant partially funds it operations by selling refurbished PCs and other donated equipment (e.g., printers). Currently, this is done at our main site. We are planning to open a small store in North Raleigh, to increase our sales volumes.
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Marie Arrington Hinton Foundation Inc
Board of directorsas of 06/12/2012
David Hinton
The Purple Elephant Computer Factory
David O. Hinton
The Purple Computer Factory