Your retired devices have years of life left. Our students can use everyone of them.
StreetCode Academy lends donated laptops, tablets, and phones to students in East Palo Alto for a year at a time. Since 2020, more than 2,500 devices from Bay Area companies have found a second life here.
Why Bay Area companies donate to the Level Up Program
Keep devices local
Most of our partners are within 20 minutes of our HQ. Your devices stay in your community, with the students your team drives past on the way to work.
Skip the recycling fee
We pick up for free on your schedule. One contact, one form, one pickup. We handle everything after handoff.
Report real reuse
Every partner gets device counts and estimated pounds diverted from the waste stream for sustainability and community reporting.
Report real reuse
Volunteer at a class night, host a device drive, or visit HQ and meet the students using your devices.
What we accept
Laptops, tablets, and phones released in 2019 or later.
Working condition, wiped, and released from company management software. Chargers appreciated. The year floor moves forward each year, so in 2027 the minimum becomes 2020.
Desktops, monitors, and accessories are welcome at lower priority. They support our classrooms and community partners rather than the lending program, so we take them as space allows.
Not sure a device qualifies? Ask us. Send the make, model, year, and condition and we’ll answer within two business days.
How it works
1
Tell us what you have
Fill out the short form below, or email Quincy Sanders directly.
2
Your IT team wipes and unenrolls
Exactly what you already do before any device leaves the building. We don’t touch data, and we say so.
3
We pick up
At your site, on your schedule. Or drop off at our HQ on Capitol Ave in East Palo Alto.
4
You get the letter
An itemized IRS acknowledgment within seven business days, and an update on where the devices went in about 90 days.
Where your devices go
Every device is asset-tagged, lent for a year, then returned and lent again. One refresh batch of 20 laptops covers a full StreetCode class.
2,500+
devices placed since 2020
400+
programs that Level Up Devices have supported since 2020
300+
students using a Level Up Device this year
Companies that have donated devices to Level Up
Every partner is thanked. Larger gifts come with more ways to connect.
Neighbor
1 to 9 devices
Ally
10 to 24 devices
Partner
25 to 99 devices
Anchor
100 to 249 devices
Cornerstone
250+ or a multi-year committment
Counted over a rolling twelve months.
Common questions
No. Donors wipe and unenroll devices before handoff, using the same process they’d use for any disposition. We can walk small teams and individuals through a factory reset.
You’ll receive a written acknowledgment that meets IRS substantiation requirements, listing each item received. StreetCode doesn’t assign a value; your tax advisor can tell you what’s deductible in your situation.
It has to be released before pickup. Apple Business Manager, Intune, Jamf, and Google Admin can all release devices remotely. An enrolled device can’t be used by a student, so we’ll set it aside and ask your IT team to release it.
Most of our partners do. Many vendors can route working 2019-or-newer units to a designated nonprofit after sanitization. We’re glad to coordinate directly with them.
Yes. Volunteer at a class night, run a device drive at your office, or bring a team to see the devices in use at our HQ.
Quincy Sanders, quincy@streetcode.org, (650) 485-1413. We reply within two business days.