What equipment can I donate?

The Purple Elephant accepts donations only at our main site at 6808 Davis Circle in Raleigh. We stop accepting donations 30 minutes before closing.  Please do not leave donations at our door!

We will take a wide range of personal computer equipment, including:

• CPU's - the central processing unit (big box)
• Laptops
• Keyboards
• Mice
• Speakers
• Storage devices
• USB components
• Monitors (15" - 17" CRTs, any size LCD)
  • There is a recycling fee of $5.00 for each monitor not part of a PC system donation.
• Printers
• Cables

PE provides itemized receipts for equipment donations. These can be used in preparing income tax returns but PE cannot specify the value of such donations.   Check out what happens to your computer.

PE also accepts donations of

• other computer-related materials including but not limited to modems, routers, and cords
• other small electronic equipment, such as cell phones and digital cameras.

PE accepts old and non-working CPUs.

We can no longer accept CRT monitors that are 19" or larger, TVs, and telephones.  We are not able to use donated software.