The Charlotte Junior Chamber (Jaycees) in partnership with Goodwill Industries of Southern Piedmont is hosting a city-wide electronics donation drive to be held on Saturday Sept. 17, 2011. This is a unique opportunity for Charlotte residents to help their neighbors find jobs – through job training – and save our landfills from growing.
Members are collecting donations from 9:30am-4pm at the Park Road Shopping Center, located at the intersection of Park Road and Woodlawn Road, or you can drop off donations at any of the 20 Goodwill stores in the Charlotte area. There is no charge to drop off electronics.
The following items will be accepted: computers, monitors, fax machines, printers, keyboards, typewriters, stereo systems, VCRs, photocopiers, cell phones or any other electronic. All valuable data will be crushed and destroyed.
All proceeds from donated items will help fund Goodwill’s employment and training programs; all donations are tax deductible. Every donor will receive a receipt. You can learn more or find a complete list of collection sites at www.goodwillsp.org.
Qdoba Mexican Grill will be present and handing out free meal vouchers, food and drinks to all donors.
The Jaycees are proud to be partnering with Goodwill and participating in a project that can make an impact on our community by keeping our landfills from growing wastes.
WHO: The Charlotte Junior Chamber and Goodwill
WHAT: Electronics Donation Drive
WHERE: All Goodwill Retail Locations and Park Road Shopping Center, 4201 Park Road, Charlotte, NC
Contacts: David Hoffman, President of Charlotte Junior Chamber – 704.806.5111
Lynn Barnett, Charlotte Junior Chamber Member – 704.654.2848
Lelia King, Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont – 980.322.5636 or lelia.king@goodwillsp.org
The Charlotte Junior Chamber is Charlotte’s premier young professional leadership organization, committed to developing the next generation of civic and business leaders. For more information please visit www.charlottejuniorchamber.com.
Goodwill operates 20 retail stores and has more than 30 total donation sites in the Southern Piedmont region of North and South Carolina. Proceeds from the sale of donated goods fund job training and employment services for individuals facing barriers to employment such as lack of skills, experience or education. In 2010, Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont assisted nearly 15,000 individuals with their job searches and diverted more than 49 million pounds of waste from local landfills. For more information, visit www.goodwillsp.org.
