Laptop Grant Program
The Service Beakers Laptop Grant Program aims to help bridge the digital divide in North Carolina and beyond, allowing students access to an effectively infinite number of educational opportunities.
Service Beakers crowdsources laptops from indivduals and corporate partners. We then channel the devices through our four targeted grant pipelines, working with the Kramden Institute, Beast Philanthropy, the St. Michael Honduras Mission, and Hands on Peru to bring laptops to Raleigh, Greenvile, Honduras, and Peru.
Check our progress!
Thank you all so much for your help in raising an audited value of over $130,000 worth of donations and over 1,000 total devices for under-resourced students. Since March 2022, we been distributing these devices, delivering ~250 to students in Honduras, 300+ to students in the Triangle, and 350+ to students in Greenville (NC). In September 2024, we began our Peru pipeline, and thus far, we have donated 25 devices.
Targeted Pipeline Partners
Honduran Students holding laptops donated by Service Beakers in 2022.
The Sister Parish
Two of our organization’s co-founders, Isaac Lund and Joey Milazzo, attended St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic School, whose parish supports an impoverished sister parish in Honduras. Its poor yet hardworking and faithful families typically make under $80 (USD) per year.
St. Michael’s missionary work has done a fantastic job providing for this community, including its educational, medical, agricultural, and spiritual needs.
At Service Beakers, we aim to grow the educational opportunities available to students in this community by providing expanded access to technology, which can provide high-quality, far-reaching learning through sites like Khan Academy and YouTube.
Thus far, we have donated roughly 150 devices to students in this community. Our work still continues, so if you would like to make a donation, you can reach us at contact@servicebeakers.com.
The Kramden Institute
Service Beakers far surpassed its initial goal of 250 devices for St. Michael’s Honduras mission, which was unable to transport the excess devices. This provided a great opportunity to partner with the Kramden Institute, a Durham-based nonprofit that grants devices to underprivileged students across North Carolina.
Service Beakers has thus far provided over 300 devices to the Kramden Institute. We are excited to support its programs such as Train the Trainer, which brings digital literacy curricula and free laptops to communities across North Carolina.
We are excited for our continued partnership with the Kramden Institute. If you would like to make a donation, please reach us at contact@servicebeakers.com.
Service Beakers’ 250+ device donation in October 2023.
An outgoing donation to Beast Philanthropy, taken in Isaac’s living room.
Beast Philanthropy
Mr. Beast, one of the world’s most well-known social media creators, also runs his own nonprofit, Beast Philanthropy. Located in Greenville and working with communities in Africa, Asia, and across the globe, Service Beakers identified the organization as an ideal partner to facilitate laptop distribution in other parts of North Carolina and potentially beyond the Americas.
Currently, Service Beakers, through Beast Philanthropy, supports the Boys and Girls Club of Greenville with our laptop donations. We are also working to provide laptops to other organizations as we see them.
We have donated over 350 devices to Beast Philanthropy to date. We are continuing to expand our partnership, and if you would like to make a donation, you can reach us at contact@servicebeakers.com.
Hands on Peru
In September 2024, Service Beakers initialized its newest pipeline to students in Peru through a partnership with Hands on Peru. The nonprofit aims to provide medical and life care to rural Peruvian populations disadvantaged as a result of social structures and inequity.
Our laptops will go towards their child development programs, which is dedicated to improving educational accessibility and outcomes for students from impoverished communities in Peru.
We have made an initial donation of 25 devices to Hands on Peru, and as we grow this new partnership, we are excited to continue our support! If you would like to make a donation, please reach us at contact@servicebeakers.com.
Service Beakers’ first device donation to Peru in September 2024.
The Laptop Initiative Team
Isaac Lund
Joey Milazzo
Everett Brostedt
Varun Kute
Leo Ouyang
Robbie Flanagan
Thank you to all our corporate and religious crowdsourcing partners!
