Gracious Promise Foundation

It’s amazing what a few days of slightly warmer temperatures and sunshine will do. The word “spring” begins to lurk around the tip of our collective tongues. With that in mind, Gracious Promise would like to propose a new idea for your spring cleaning.

Do you have electronic devices around your house that you don’t use? Maybe you upgraded your cell phone this winter or your kids have got a Wii and aren’t using their Gamecube anymore. Selling these at a garage sale doesn’t provide much return, Ebay or Craigslist can be a hassle, and finding a recycling center can be almost impossible.

One of our staff uses a service called Gazelle to get rid of his old gadgets. Gazelle’s site asks you to enter the name and condition of your gadgets and then provides a price quote based on market value. It also shows you the market trends of the device’s value over time so you can even wait to sell if the value is increasing or sell quickly if it’s decreasing. Once you agree to a price, Gazelle sends out a free shipping box for you to return. Once they receive the item and confirm its condition, they will send out (based on your preference) a check, gift card or credit your paypal account.

So what does that have to do with Gracious Promise? Well, Gazelle also allows charities to do gadget drives. So you may go to our gadget drive page and the money from any gadgets you submit will be donated to Gracious Promise. We are holding a drive to raise $3000 between now and May 1st. We hope you’ll consider supporting this cause. Our Gadget Drive site is here:

http://gracious.gazelle.com

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