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Offering an exemplary value proposition for donors and recipients: collaborating for impact through “systemic alignment”

NCDE affirms that access to affordable devices – be they new or refurbished desktops, laptops, tablets or smartphones – is as essential for digital, economic, educational and financial inclusion as access to affordable broadband and assistance to use these resources safely and effectively.  Drawing on insights gained from our national award-winning pilot fundraising campaign at the start of the pandemic, we’ve designed a nationally scalable program providing an exceptional “value proposition” for donors and recipients based on four principles, through alignment of investments in devices, essential human services, referral to those services, and support for their effective use:

  1. Offering a diverse array of devices, including new and fully refurbished laptops, tablets and smartphones, to meet the device needs of diverse users of all ages – because some must have a device that comes with a keyboard, while for others a tablet or smartphone will fully suffice). All come with webcams and wifi access and will fully meet today’s live-streaming demands.
  2. Ensuring each device is competitively priced to optimize bang for the buck for donors – the lower the price, the more recipients a given donation amount will benefit.
  3. Working with our committed hardware partners to ensure every device comes preinstalled with carefully selected apps and pointers to exceptional Inclusion Resources. This greatly magnifies the value of the donor’s contribution, by ensuring the devices point recipients to exceptional resources — such as free checking accounts with no bounced check fees, libraries offering free unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of ebooks and audiobooks, often in multiple languages, and exemplary productivity apps.
  4. Especially important, working with leaders in key dimensions of financial, economic, educational, workforce development, healthcare and human services sectors to ensure that donor-funded devices are distributed and their use supported by these “sector impact partners” – e.g., donor-funded tablets distributed by a hospital to its lower-income post-operative patients enabling them to receive cost-effective and sometimes life-saving aftercare via telemedicine. This too greatly magnifies the impact of a donor’s contribution, by equipping recipients with much greater access, remotely, to essential services. In this way, donors committed to furnishing essential but otherwise disparate resources — devices, broadband, user support, referral to essential services, and human service delivery — come together for impact.

Discounted Devices Bundled with Essential Resources

Each of these devices comes with an at least one-year parts and labor warranty, free shipping, toll-free tech support, a webcam, and wifi-capable for live-streaming.  They also come bundled with Inclusion Resources bundled, via a small number of exemplary apps and pointers to powerful free Inclusion resources.

Donors can fund one or an unlimited number of each of the following fully warrantied devices:

  • Refurbished Windows 11 laptops, indistinguishable from new, with a new hard drive, an Avid bluetooth headset, and Microsoft Office fully installed with no subscription fee, at $400 each.
  • New 10.1” Android tablet with 4 GB RAM, 32GB ROM, T310 CPU, 5MP front camera and 13MP rear camera; includes bluetooth keyboard, carrying case, protective cover and earbuds, and device includes pointers to all Inclusion Resources plus Teladoc and SWA Perks, at $110 each.
  • New iPad 10.2″, 64 GB, wi-fi, space gray, at $325.90 each.
  • New Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 Core i5, 256 GB drive and Windows 11, at $866.99 each.
  • New HP Chromebook 14 G7 14″, 4 GB hard drive, 32B flash memory, Targus carrying case. at $276.80 each.
  • New Pixel 8A 5G Smartphone, 128GB, obsidian, at $503.74 each.
  • New iPhone SE 3rd Gen. 128 GB (no simcard required), midnight black, at $505.20 each.
  • New iPhone 13, 128GB, midnight black, at $663.40 each.
  • New iPad 10.9″ GG10, 256GB, wi-fi, silver, at $484.11 each.
  • New Surface Laptop 5 Core i5-1245U, 8GB ram, 512GB SSD, at $1,237.13 each.
  • New iPad Air 11″, 256B, wi-fi, space gray, at $678.17 each.

Inclusion Resource Bundling: Magnifying Donor Impact a Hundredfold

Every device donors put into the hands of lower-income recipients who need them comes with the following pre-installed:

  1. Apps for Productivity and Inclusion

    • Microsoft Office 365, enabling users to produce, access, save and share Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files at no cost.
    • Google’s suite of apps: including the search engine, Gmail, and maps.
  2. Inclusion Resources

    Each device also comes with hyperlink pointers to the following carefully and constantly vetted resources:

    • BankOn: pointing to low-cost and free checking accounts with no overdraft fees, and other providers of essential “financial inclusion” supports including free income tax preparation assistance, webinars on financial literacy, financial education simulation games, and the like.
    • Consumer Reports’ stellar “Security Planner” toolset in English and Spanish, enabling the user to create a comprehensive personalized cybersafety action plan to use the Internet and their devices safely and successfully.
    • Libby: this free app points the user to their local public library where, once they obtain a free library card, they can then access at no cost from home hundreds of thousands of free audiobooks and e-books on nearly every topic imaginable, often in multiple languages.
    • 211: This will take them to a webpage where they can connect with their statewide or local “211 Help Desk” staffed 24x7x365 by trained information referral specialists, pointing them to an extraordinary array of providers of essential services, tailored to their immediate concern. (see www.211.org).
    • NCDE’s Inclusion Resources Directory: In collaboration with a growing array of partners, this hyperlink on the device will take them to a constantly updated compilation by NCDE of best-ins-how resources for financial, economic, educational and digital inclusion, from providers of digital navigator assistance to free training in digital, media and financial literacy, AI and cybersafety skills, to Career OneStop, an unrivalled resource alerting users to real-time information maintained by the US Dept. Of Labor on the most in-demand living-wage occupations in their community and state, the average starting salary in these fields, and providers of free and low-cost training enabling entry into these occupations. In addition, through NCDE’s pioneering, free Inclusion Junction toolset, users will be pointed to nearby digital navigators and providers of free digital literacy, cybersafety, financial literacy and other important skill training.

Donors: Coordinating Philanthropic Investments Will Yield Life-Changing Impacts

Our commitment at NCDE is to make otherwise siloed donations as impactful for recipients and as deeply satisfying as humanly possible. As noted above, the devices are affordably priced, fully-warranted and ready to meet the hardware demands of live-streaming , come bundled with apps and pointers to exceptional resources for systemic inclusion, and can be distributed by key “impact sector partners” such as hospitals and other healthcare providers, schools serving predominantly free/reduced lunch-eligible students, financial aid-eligible college students, workforce development participants, veterans, seniors, English Learners and other New Americans, and residents in public housing.

Philanthropic Leaders Seeking More Information

Dr. Robert McLaughlin
Executive Director
[email protected]
Schedule a Meeting: https://calendly.com/rmclaughlin1

Donors Ready to Make a Pledge

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Sector Impact Partners

Watch this space for more details very soon or contact us.

Fostering Self-Sustaining Statewide Device Refurbishment Campaigns

NCDE and our partners are committed to mitigating in every way possible the environmental impacts of digital inclusion initiatives, including our own.

  • We encourage donors and others to finance refurbished devices, to cost-effectively extend the life of often still very capable computing devices.
  • NCDE is finalizing plans for a campaign in our home state of New Hampshire to assist employers large and small, across every sector who purchase rather than lease their computers, to donate them for refurbishment.  Employers and agency leaders, our national refurbishment partners at Bluum stand ready – at zero cost to you — to pick up your used devices when you “refresh them”, ship them to one of Bluum’s regional refurbishment hubs, for wiping drives clean to Department of Defense specs, installing a fresh hard drive, and working with NCDE to donate them to low-income recipients who need them. Bluum and NCDE will stand ready to discuss with you fully meeting your data security concerns, which we regard as an utmost priority. We know that many donors of used computers will want to themselves destroy hard drives or wipe them clean on their own end, out of an abundance of data security caution. Please know that our refurbishment partners themselves fully meet and exceed DOD security requirements.