Charles Boyd Chevrolet is Proud to be Part of the Chevrolet Effort to Raise over $1 million for the Cell Phones for Soldiers Campaign

When you donate your unused cell phone at Charles Boyd Chevrolet, you are giving a soldier a chance to call home. Stop by our dealership today to donate your cell phone. We are located at 284 US 158 Bypass, Henderson, NC 27537.

Nationally

Chevrolet has launched a year-long campaign, with the goal of raising $1 million to support Cell Phones for Soldiers. To reach that goal, Chevrolet is asking for donations of unwanted, gently used cell phones to the cause. Cell Phones for Soldiers will recycle the cell phones, and use the proceeds to provide pre-paid calling cards and cell phones to troops serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded in 2004 by brother and sister Robbie and Brittany Bergquist. To date, they have provided more than 60 million minutes of free calling cards through a national network of individual and corporate supporters.

"There are more than 130 million phones retired every year in the United States," said Robbie Bergquist, "If just 2 percent of Americans were to donate their unwanted phones, we could supply every soldier with a free call home – and a small measure of our national gratitude."

Locally

Additionally, each Chevy dealership in the Raleigh area is partnering with their local high schools to promote the Cell Phones for Soldiers Campaign. From Monday, October 17 through Friday, November 18 cell phones will be collected at Charles Boyd Chevrolet. There will be two collection bins at the dealership- one on behalf of Northern Vance High School and one for Southern Vance High School. At the end of the collection period, the donated phones will be totaled for each Raleigh area high school and the school with the most phones will win an in-school concert by the band Steel Magnolia! The school that comes in second will receive an in-school lunch-time pizza party.