Join the Cell Phone Recycling Challenge

Join Women of the ELCA to help create lasting solutions for poverty and climate change. How? Through the simple act of recycling your old cell phone!

 

In the United Sates alone, more than HALF A BILLION cell phones are no longer being used and are ready for recycling.

Another 11 MILLION phones are added to that total each month!

We are thrilled to announce that Women of the ELCA has teamed up with the Women’s Funding Network and the Good Deed Foundation to recycle 250,000 cell phones by May 1, 2009! Money raised through the recycling campaign will be used to:

        1. Support programs that lift women and families out of poverty;

        2. Help provide lasting solutions to climate change, a major contributor to poverty worldwide; and

        3. Provide 911 emergency phones for senior citizens and people at risk.

Participation is easy and fun! Try these ideas:

  • Visit the Women of the ELCA web page on the Good Deed website to recycle your old cell phones! Go to www.gooddeedfoundation.org/welca to request a postage-paid recycling envelope and collection boxes.
  • Create a “team” challenge: Ask your congregational unit to put together teams and challenge each other to collect the most cell phones by May 1, 2009.
  • Conduct cell phone recycling drives in your community. Place collection boxes in your church, local coffee shops, or community centers. Feature cell phone recycling at your events and ask local businesses to host a box. Collect from your neighbors. Reward success!
  • Promote the campaign by including information about cell phone recycling in your newsletter, worship bulletins, and correspondence.

  • Go viral! Add the Good Deed “widget” or link to your website, or the electronic signature to your emails, and send a Good Deed eCard to everyone in your address book! Find all of these resources at www.gooddeedfoundation.org/takeaction.

Learn more and get your own collection kit and tools to help grow the campaign at www.GoodDeedFoundation.org/welca.

Download a flyer with this information and share it with your women's group.