Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Week 3 EOC: Making Money for Good

Ok we have all done this at one time or another, a associate or a friend of yours has come to you and asked if you would be able to donate to some local charity or their child is trying to save up enough money to go on some school trip. You really want to donate money but you just don’t have the means to make it happen. Well don’t feel bad for to much longer because there is a new service on the Internet at http://www.gazelle.com/gazelle-for-good/ . What Gazell is is a new online service that buys up all those old electronics that you have just laying around, collecting dust. When you go to their site and enter in say an older “iPod” or an old digital camera, they tell you the going price for that piece of technology. And if you decide to sell it to them, they will send you the box free of shipping for you to then send the articles back to “Gazell” in.

Your probably thinking where does the charity aspect come in at? “Gazelle For Good allows anyone to raise funds for a cause by starting an online gadget collection drive.” www.gazellforgood.com . Gazelle for Good allows you to collect used gadgets and in return they give the money to the charity of your choice or to support your cause. Gazelle will even recycle old electronics instead of just throwing away that stuff into a landfill.“Gazelle guarantees that no item sent to us will ever end up in a landfill regardless of whether or not it has value.” www.gazellforgood.com . I think that this is great idea. This solves the problem of people not having the funds to fork over for a good cause.”Gadget drives are a great fundraising idea for organizations or individuals.”www.gazellforgood.com. I know that I have plenty of old gear that I would like to get rid of for good and even in a responsible way.