ERA Brings Its Global Technology Reuse Mission to New Zealand
Technology moves quickly, but what happens to the devices we no longer need? For more than two decades, the Electronic Recycling Association (ERA) has worked to make sure usable…
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South Florida Nonprofits: Apply for Refurbished Technology
More than 1,000 charities, schools and nonprofits are currently on the ERA network's donation waitlist. Behind every name on that list is the same story: people who could do more…
AI and Reuse: Why the AI Boom Makes Refurbishment Matter More
The United States is building computing capacity at a pace no one has seen before. Data centres are rising across the country to power artificial intelligence, and with every new…
11,400 Devices and Counting: The ERA Network's 2018–2025 Impact
Between 2018 and 2025, the ERA network (the Electronic Reusing Association in the United States together with our Canadian parent organisation, the Electronic Recycling…
ERA Comes to America: From a 2018 Announcement to Florida Warehouses
On October 12, 2018, our Canadian parent organisation (the Electronic Recycling Association, founded in Calgary in 2004) announced its expansion into the United States under a…
From Calgary to the World: The ERA Story
In 1996, Bojan Paduh emigrated from Croatia to Canada with his family. Like many newcomer families, they couldn't bring much. Then a church group gave them a donated computer…
MFT Brings Laptops and a Projector to the Bongolava Region, Madagascar
In April 2026, our Madagascar partner MFT (Madagascar Fanantenana Teknolojia) delivered 10 refurbished laptops and a projector to the Regional Directorate of Youth and Sports of…
Kompjuteri Nade Equips a Student Computer Lab in Banovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina
In April 2026, students at Mješovita Srednja Škola Banovići in Bosnia got a working computer lab: four computers and four monitors, donated through the ERA network and delivered…
ERA and Futed Build a Student Computer Room in Chile
In April 2026, the students of Escuela Básica G-N 348 Huechún in Chile got something their school had never had before: a computer room of their own. The room was built with five…
Laptops and Connectivity for Lycée Andohalo, Madagascar
A donated laptop is useful. A donated laptop with a working connection to the wider world is something else entirely. That is what Lycée Andohalo in Madagascar received through…
Lending a Lifeline: How Laptop Lending Helped Communities Through COVID
In the spring of 2020, classrooms emptied almost overnight. Schoolwork moved to the kitchen table, and for thousands of families, there was no computer waiting there. That year,…
225 Computers for Tsuut’ina Schools: A Network Milestone
In 2015, CBC reported on a milestone for our Canadian parent organisation, the Electronic Recycling Association: 225 donated computers reaching Tsuut’ina Nation schools. The…
Years of Laptops for the Isa Mundo Foundation in Mexico
Some donation stories are about a single delivery. This one is about staying power. The ERA network's relationship with the Isa Mundo Foundation in Boca de Tomatlán, Mexico, goes…
Tech for Clean Water: Supporting Rainmaker Enterprise in South Sudan
Clean water is one of the hardest infrastructure challenges anywhere, and Rainmaker Enterprise has taken it on in South Sudan. To support that work, the ERA network provided…
The Day the Network Delivered 550 Devices: A Giving Tuesday Story
Every Giving Tuesday, we think back to the one that set the bar. On Giving Tuesday 2018, the ERA network delivered more than 550 devices to 28 organisations in a single day…