Ashland, Ore.--In a season when the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is producing Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone, it seemed appropriate that the Festival collect dead cell phones to support local crisis support organizations.
The cell phones and their respective chargers will be collected at the OSF Box Office and in the New Theatre and Angus Bowmer Theatre lobbies during the run of Dead Man's Cell Phone (February 19-June 19). All cell phones collected at OSF will be delivered to Towne & Country Cleaners & Laundry, where Mobile Madness will receive them for distribution and determine the resale potential. (Mobile Madness clears all of the previous owners' information from the phone before redistribution.)
Many dead cell phones could be worth between $20 and $70, depending on the type and age of the phone. If the cell phone has a resale value then Mobile Madness will purchase the phone, and the proceeds will go toward one of three organizations; otherwise the phones will be given to the organizations. The cell phones are useful to these organizations because once charged they are capable of dialing 911.
The first 150 donated phones and the first $200 in monetary compensation will be distributed to the Women's Crisis Support Team in Grants Pass. The next 50 phones and $200 will be donated to the Gospel Rescue Mission in Grants Pass, and all remaining cell phones and monetary compensation will be donated to Community Works in Medford.
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