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Giving every month is the easiest way to support Powering Potential and the young people we help. And it has an extra positive impact for us, because when we can predict our donations every month, we can spend more time building great programs to help students build a brighter future, and less time fundraising.

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Explore Our Donor Circles

Learn about our giving levels and how your support helps expand access to technology and education for students in rural Tanzania.

Equipment Donations:

Interested in donating equipment?

Read more about our tech donation policy below

Your generosity brings educational resources to children in need.

Here are some ways you can help:

$100 buys a solar panel
$200 buys a complete computer unit
$600 buys three computer units or a projector
$2000 buys ½ of the computers we need for one lab
$15,000 covers all equipment and local labor costs to install one lab

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Make payable to Powering Potential Inc. and mail to:

Powering Potential Inc.
157 Columbus Ave., 4th floor
New York, New York 10023-6082

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We have partnered with Stock Donator to make it easy for you to donate publicly traded stocks to Powering Potential.

If you prefer to make a DTC transfer using a non-automated paper form, please email us at development@poweringpotential.org or call (929) 265-1167 for instructions.

Thank you for supporting students in Tanzania and Peru who are eager to learn and need educational resources. Powering Potential Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, EIN 47-3046472 (IRS determination letter). We appreciate your generosity.

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Your generosity brings educational resources to children in need and helps to power bright futures.

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Equipment Donation Policy:

We often get requests to donate equipment, especially computers and laptops. We are so grateful for the generous donors who want to help, but we find it is usually preferable to purchase equipment locally in Tanzania or Peru. Here are some things to know:

Good quality computers are available for sale locally. When we buy equipment from local vendors, that money gets invested into the local community, meaning donor funds have an even bigger positive impact on the places where we work.

Buying locally saves on shipping and customs fees. In many cases, the amount of money it takes to ship computers from the US to Tanzania or Peru would buy the same number of computers from a local vendor. As a small organization, we care a lot about being as efficient as possible with donor funds, and buying locally is usually more efficient.

Powering Potential has a strict policy not to pay any extra-judicial fees. That means that equipment shipped from the US or Europe, especially computers, often gets stuck in customs, sometimes indefinitely. In some cases, electronics are at high risk of being stolen. We would hate for your donation to go to waste!

Since plugs and voltage are different in Tanzania, computers shipped from the US usually require purchasing additional adapters and converters, which can add a lot to our installation costs. Buying locally solves that problem!

Buying locally saves on carbon emissions, a win for the whole world.

If you are still interested in donating equipment from the US, we ask that donors cover all shipping and customs fees.

Making a monetary donation instead is encouraged.