Corporate Support
Our corporate supporters are a big reason why World Computer Exchange achieves our goals - year after year. Whether it is through sponsoring shipments, challenge grants, computer donations or employee contributions of time, expertise and matching funds. They help us raise awareness of our mission and help further our goal of helping bridge the digital divide for millions of children in the developing world.
It is because of corporate support that WCE is able to leverage every dollar raised as much as 6 times and makes it possible for 93 percent of every dollar raised to go to programs.
For more information contact: Sponsor@worldcomputerexchange.org
Become a Corporate Sponsor
There are lots of ways for your company to support World Computer Exchange:
Sponsor a shipment of computers
For $11,500 for 400 computers will connect 11,500 youth in 30 schools. That is $1 per student. We also have half shipments of 200 computers for $6,300. Our vetted Partners match your donation. And with support of $2,500 or more we can arrange to connect your company via web cam to meeting the students who have received the computers.
Read about how Disque and Carol Deane sponsored the Computer for Girls Initiative for Zimbabwe. Learn about how The Strategic Group sponsored a $25,000 Challenge Grant that will bring computers to over 23,000 youth in 5 countries.
Sponsor employees to go on eCorps trips
For $2,500 your company can sponsor an employee to help train, upgrade and trouble-shoot through our eCorps program.
Organizing a volunteer-day of your employees
Read about how the National Society of Black Engineers volunteered their time through our DC Chapter
Start an employee chapter
Walgreens organized computer donations as well as worked with us to figure out how to pre-load content. Booz Allen Hamilton employees hosted a luncheon at their offices to spread the word and recruit volunteers for WCE.
Donate a percentage of your company's product revenues to WCE
Profile: Siemens, DHL and the World Economic Forum
The Hue University Learning Resource Center (LRC) in Vietnam provides advanced education resources as well as online training and teaching programs. The LRC was developed with the help of U.S. business people who fought in the war between their countries. LRC received 100 computers as part of WCE's pilot project with the World Economic Forum's Global Digital Divide Initiative. WCE arranged for the computers to be donated by Siemens in Germany and for DHL to donate their delivery to Hue University. All 100 computers continue to work, giving students in five nearby schools access to the Internet.
Profile: The Strategic Group
Robb Rill, president of The Strategic Group and a WCE Board member, knows that, with the right resources and incentives, the digital divide can be bridged. His support for WCE started in 2007 because he learned of a story in Glamour Magazine that listed WCE as a great charity to support. And he did. In 2008 he sponsored four employees to go as volunteers on an eCorps trip to Nigeria and Kenya. Then he sponsored a shipment to Kenya that connected 5,000 youth in 8 schools. And recently, his company the Strategic Group, Robb sponsored the first Challenge Grant for our partners -- which awarded funds to 5 countries that will connect more that 23,000 youth.
Profile: Rotary International
WCE has received great support from Rotary Clubs in Canada and the USA to ship refurbished computers to projects assisted by Rotary Clubs in: Afghanistan, Bolivia, El Salvador, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Mali, Mexico and Tanzania. Rotary Clubs have raised important funds for schools to receive computers. Our Mali shipment is the first to be matched by Rotary International. Read more about how Rotary has supported WCE over the years.
