San Francisco, CA

Contact

Status

Accepting Dropoffs with pre-arrangement.  Contact the email address above for more information.

Seeking volunteers to help with drop-offs, testing and storage.

We are currently looking for space to be used for computer testing and storage. 

News

Leilanie Bruce is retiring as the sixth WCE San Francisco Coordinator.  She is a Citizen of Philippines and we hope that she will be able to continue in another WCE volunteer role.    Thank you! 

We are seeking a new Coordinator.

Activities

• Acquiring computer donations in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley from individuals and companies.
• Recruiting adults with good technology skills from the Bay Area and Silicon Valley to help WCE partners in developing countries to develop an implementation plan for the use of used computers in their local schools.
• Recruiting K-12 teachers in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley to act as sister-teachers to teachers in developing countries that are new to technology.
• Recruiting community service programs in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley high schools and universities to help with our local activities and to staff online help desks for a group of schools in a developing country that are new to technology.
• Recruiting a small team of volunteer "Internet Ambassadors" from the Bay Area and Silicon Valley high schools and universities who are willing to visit and train local youth about technology and the Internet in exchange for learning about local history and culture.

Volunteering

We need volunteers from San Francisco to help to accomplish the following five tasks (Roles Within WCE Offices):

• Raise Sponsorship funds to help WCE Partners with the last 1/3 of the sourcing and shipping costs (this includes Rotary Clubs)
• Coordinate marketing for public computer donation events, eCorps recruitment, volunteer recruitment, speakers bureau, and press releases for shipments
• Pick-up, inventory, test and pack donated used computers
• Recruit eCorps tech volunteers from local universities and community and organize Speakers Bureau and work with local universities and high schools on community service, pairings, interns
• Recruit, organize and nurture volunteers to help with Chapter & field work including for eWaste, eCorps, and capacity building

WCE also needs volunteers to provide online support to WCE partners in developing countries in the following three roles (Online Volunteer Roles)

• Online Tech Support Volunteer
• Online Content Support Volunteer
• Online Telecenter Management Support Volunteer

Corporate Donors

• ABC Storage in Mountain View, CA, for several years in the past they graciously donated space in their storage facility to house donated computers for WCE. Thank you ABC Storage!
• Bechtel
• Belkin Corporation
• Bononi & Kouri Attorneys At Law
• Computer Recycling Center
• Fenwick & West
• Fryes
• Golden Gate University
• Intelligent Products Marketing
• Oakland YMCA
• Oakland Zoo
• PAREXEL International
• PARC
• PriMed
• Reuters
• Riverdeep
• SGI
• Sun Microsystems
• TA Associates
• Venture Law Group