Our members are local groups, businesses and organizations with the goal of extending the lifetime of products through repair, refurbishment, retail and, in general, reuse.

Solidanca.cat

Solidança is a nonprofit organization created in 1997 dedicated to the professional training and labour insertion of people in social vulnerability. To this end, in 2006, created a company Solidança labour insertion -Solidança Labor EI – which offers services in the environmental sector, specifically in the management and revaluation of certain waste fractions.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, labor insertion, not-for-profit testimonial.

Reutilitza.upc.edu

The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) has a service-learning reuse program (reutilitza.upc.edu). Involves more than 500 students every year on tasks around repairing and refurbishing computers. Up to December 2016, more than 2000 computers were repaired, installed and handed over to 140 solidarity projects around the world.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, service-learning, university, not-for-profit, testimonial.

Pontsolidari.org

The Banc de Recursos Foundation located in Barcelona, is focused on reutilization and redistribution of goods at both, national and international level and on development aid projects. Through the on line platform www.pontsolidari.org , used computers coming from donations of business companies, are being reused in social organizations and charities.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, NGO, not-for-profit, testimonial.

Trinijove.org

Trinijove facilitate entrepreneurship of youth in risk of exclusion an new business models such as sharing and leasing schemes for products. Trinijove is a private foundation based on Catalonia (Spain) that aims its efforts in the education of people with difficulties and helps them in the task of finding a job.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, recycler, labor insertion, not-for-profit, testimonial.

Andromines.net

Andromines is a nonprofit organization that since 1993 works for a more just and equitable society, by denouncing and fighting social exclusion and welcoming people marginalized labor. Its project ‘Recycle PC’ is based on carrying out the recovery and recycling of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and) Line Gray (computers, monitors, printers and other computer accessories).

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, leasing, labor insertion, not-for-profit, testimonial.

Reciclanet.org

Reciclanet is an Educational, Ecological and Solidarity Association, formed by volunteers. We develop projects for recovery and reuse of computer equipment, and the spread of free software. Our philosophy is based on people, and speaking of sharing, education and solidary. We work since 2000, promoting the sharing and reuse of computers with open source.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, labor insertion, not-for-profit.

elkartenet.eus

Elkartenet is a non-profit educational association and main objective is to carry out educational, associative and commercial revitalization projects supported by tools designed with Free Software and with criteria to fight against the different forms of Digital Divide and favouring Circular Economy.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, not-for-profit.

Ieselcalamot.com

The Calamot Institute is a public secondary education compulsory and post-compulsory taught ESO, secondary education to middle and top grade.

TAGS: school, not-for-profit.

Labdoo.org

Labdoo is a humanitarian social network joined by people around the world who want to make our planet a better place by providing those in underdeveloped regions (both in the developing and the developed world) a chance at a better education. The goal of the social network is to send unused laptops, ebook readers, tablet-PCs and any device that can be loaded with educational software to needy schools around the world using collaboration and without incurring any economic nor environmental costs.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, NGO, not-for-profit.

Marianao.net

Marianao Foundation is a nonprofit organization that since 1985 develops socio-educational projects serving the community, to promote the personal and community development in Sant Boi de Llobregat and Baix Llobregat. The Funación is interested in receiving the material does not work and must be repaired.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, service-learning, foundation, not-for-profit.

Engrunes.org

Engrunes is a private non-profit enterprise with the purpose to provide people at risk of social exclusion or excluded, support staff, paid work that allows them to rejoin again an active social life and work, using as tools their work and personal effort.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, labor insertion, not-for-profit.

donalo.org

Donalo is a meeting point where companies and people donate digital devices and products to NGOs. The project, based on the accountability of companies according to their standards, is a reformulation of the task did Migrano de Arena Foundation since 2007 and took the name of ‘surplus management’.

TAGS: testimonial.

Founded in 1968, Abacus cooperative has more than 850,000 consumer members and 478 business partners. Is a leader in the distribution of books, real educational, cultural and entertainment establishments in Catalonia 45 Catalonia, Valencia, Castellón and Islands. Abacus cooperative is a founding member of the Group clade, the first Catalan cooperative business group.

TAGS: supplier, retailer, leasing, cooperative.

Reutilizak.org

We are a non-profit association that supports the integral development of people at risk and / or social exclusion in the neighborhood of Vallecas in Madrid, since 1986. Encouraging and promoting social participation, especially of juveniles and young people from underprivileged socio-cultural backgrounds, trying to prevent their marginalization from the educational and social process. To promote, carry out and manage social and labor integration projects for people at risk or socially excluded.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, labor insertion, service-learning, not-for-profit.

Ongdreamit.org

DreamIT is an NGO that under the motto “dreams that change the world”, aims to mediate in the adhesion of volunteers and the transfer of technological equipment (Hw and Sw educational) to projects that aim to give an opportunity to the most disadvantaged through education. Our vision is a world in which education is available to the most disadvantaged through technology. Our mission is to transform and make education possible by using technology to empower people in need, focused solely on social change.

TAGS: supplier, retailer, NGO, not-for-profit.

fundesplai.org

FUNDACIÓN ESPLAI mission is promoting committed citizenship through social inclusion, social-educational action and a responsible use of ICT, with a special dedication to childhood and youth, all in all within the global aim of encouraging the third sector role in society. They work at local, national and international level developing different projects addressed to different vulnerable groups and designing methodological tools and training materials

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, NGO, not-for-profit

Argentina

Tau.org.ar

Nodo Tau is a civil association settled in Rosario, Argentina, that since 1995 promotes the use of ICTs in vulnerable groups and social organizations who work for the validity of social, civil, economic and environmental rights. From its experience in the recycling of computer equipment used for the social sector, it has incorporated to the WEEE sector, by managing its own plant of reused, and simultaneously dedicating to the investigation and broadcasting of the issue, by its publications in raee.tau.org.ar.

TAGS: refurbisher, retailer, NGO, not-for-profit