Tamont's Success Story
Tamont bounced between life on the streets and life in jail before entering the Forsyth Tech Literacy Lab at Goodwill. After earning his GED, he enrolled in advanced computer and forklift classes. Once homeless, illiterate, and living a life he knew would not last, Tamont now sees a much brighter future ahead of him as a certified forklift driver with Hayward Industries, Inc.
WHAT HAPPENS TO A DONATED COMPUTER?
After a computer is donated to Goodwill, it is evaluated by technicians to determine its usability.
Inoperable Computer Systems
- Useable parts are removed and sold at select Goodwill stores.
- Inoperable parts are sold to vendors that drill the hard drive to destroy data and conduct environmentally safe disposal.
Operable Computer Systems
- All systems are cleaned of stored information according to US Department of Defense specifications*.
- Newer systems or component parts are sold at select Goodwill stores.
- Older systems are de-manufactured and used to upfit other systems or sold as parts at select Goodwill stores.
- Systems not sold in the stores are sold to Dell approved and audited recyclers to ensure nothing goes to a landfill.
Goodwill Retail Stores Selling Computers and Related Equipment
All Goodwill Industries of NW NC stores sell computer equipment (monitors, printers, keyboards, other peripherals, etc.). The following locations sell both computer equipment and refurbished CPUs:
- Asheville: 1616 Patton Avenue
- Hickory: 1172 Lenoir-Rhyne Boulevard
- Kannapolis: 2303 Coldwater Ridge Drive
- Mooresville: 214 Williamson Road
- Mount Airy: 1986 Rockford Street
- Salisbury: 836 W. Jake Alexander Boulevard
- Winston-Salem: 2701 University Parkway
- Winston-Salem: 2760 Peters Creek Parkway
* While Goodwill takes steps to verify erasure or destruction of data on storage devices, Goodwill assumes no responsibility for data.