Okay, I had to post here. A couple of years ago, the Goshen Rotary Club (in KY) got me involved in taking a pallet of old donated computers, refurbishing them, and loading WIndows back on there (they all had XP COAs). These computers were collected, and I went to Goodwill. There, they were having Graduation Day for some of the students in a non-profit GED preparation course, and the graduates passed the GED exam. The coordinator of Goodwill of KY and I surprised the graduates with computers for each of them. I've never seen so many people get so excited about computers that they were in tears. These were old PIII machines running Windows XP, nothing to brag about, but SO many people were so thankful to have these machines, they cried. I saw a big, tall man break down in tears and hug me because he finally had a computer.

I asked the coordinator why Goodwill doesn't accept computers anymore, and she told me (at least in KY) that unfortunately it's cheaper to recycle the computers instead of fixing them and hiring someone to refurb them (and to load software). I keep asking about extra parts -- which she doesn't have much of anymore -- and she returns begging me to make more computers work for more people.

It appears that they state on their site now that they DO NOT accept computers any longer. I really need to email her again and see what I can do to help.

The other thing I thought of was getting someone to help buy a large chunk of Raspberry Pi machines to donate to low income families too since they work with composite TV output.