A Million High Fives
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A Million High Fives (#AMHF) is America’s largest e-waste collection and redistribution drive.
This project is produced in conjunction with Moderne Communications and will launch in Summer 2010. If you would like to sponsor A Million High Fives, please contact Moderne Communications directly.
Origins
#AMHF came out of a e-waste recycling drive Brandon Mendelson started to help pay for college. His efforts were featured in an MSNBC story. After leaving UAlbany, Brandon wanted to expand the drive into a nationwide effort to benefit the homeless.
Brandon and Amanda piloted #AMHF while volunteering for a small breast cancer foundation. Teaming with Sprint, they traveled across America, volunteering at homeless shelters and promoting the early detection and prevention of cancer on college campuses.
When the couple returned, Brandon evaluated the project and decided to expand it into a full-scale program that incorporated his previous e-waste initiative.
The name of #AMHF comes from the idea of high fiving a million participating volunteers,
Partners & Tour Stops
Current partners for the 2010 edition of A Million High Fives include: Whrrl, Dell, Ford, Live Stream, Vistaprint, and Goldmail, and several others we are not yet allowed to identify.
#AMHF 2010 Tour Stops: New York (NY), Cleveland (OH), Chicago (IL), Denver (CO), Omaha (NE), Salt Lake City (UT), Reno (NV), San Diego (CA), Los Angeles (CA), San Francisco (CA).
Project Summary:
All you have to do to participate is bring your e-waste and CDs to us when we visit your city. We recycle what’s broken and donate the profits from recycling to InvisiblePeople.tv, the Lisa J. Flaxman Fund, and Blame Cancer.
The working items are then distributed to: Pediatric cancer centers (.mp3 players and game consoles), and homeless shelters (laptops and game consoles for children) on our route.
Each laptop will also be equipped with our free, crowdsourced Social Publishing MBA to provide clear directions on how to get started using social publishing to assist in finding jobs.
The distribution will be streamed on LiveStream.
We will also attempt to set a Guinness World Record for tallest wall made of business cards, with the profits going to our supported charities.
CDs & MP3 Player Collection
When Brandon and Amanda piloted #AMHF, they attempted to collected CDs and CD players in memory of Lisa Flaxman, who lost her battle with breast cancer just before the pilot started. A friend of Lisa’’s reached out and asked if they would help collect the CDs and CD players, and provide them to children’s cancer hospitals.
We encourage you to bring your CDs and CD players to the collection points.
If the CDs don’t play, they will be sent to the CD Recycling Center.
If they do, they will be traded-in and the profits from the trade-in will be donated to the Lisa Flaxman Fund.
-Functioning mp3 players (Zunes, iPods, ect.) will be donated to pediatric cancer centers.
Questions?
Most #AMHF questions will be answered as we approach the event. Until then, you can get in touch with Earth’s Temporary Solution by clicking here.
The Photo
Pictured: Our #AMHF logo was designed by Anom Design.
