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…
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…
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…
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…