Interesting, I've recently been doing something similar with friends and family but with a charitable twist... They donate their unused electronics (iPhone, Bl

Interesting, I've recently been doing something similar with friends and family but with a charitable twist... They donate their unused electronics (iPhone, Blackberry, iPods, etc) to me and I give them away to people who need them in exchange for community service hours. The goal is to get people involved with the community as well as recycle used electronics that would otherwise sit in a drawer for years and eventually wind up in a landfill. So far I've used craigslist to give away an original 5gb iPod, iPhone 3g and 15" Macbook Pro battery in exchange for ~40 hours worth of community service (Habitat for Humanity and soup kitchens). I've been tossing around the idea of turning this into a non profit so that donations can be tax deductible. It would be nice to have a monetary incentive to donate used electronics in addition to the feel-good karma incentive. Right now I'm wrapping up a few projects and hope to dig into this idea a little deeper in the next week or so (come up with a name, look into what it takes to become a 501(c)(3), list some more items that have been donated, etc). When I do that, I'm definitely going to refer back to this thread for some ideas!