Turn on more accessible mode. Turn off more accessible mode. Skip Ribbon Commands. Skip to main content. Turn off Animations. Turn on Animations. Free assessment. Any U. If your organization isn't eligible for Microsoft product donations through TechSoup , you may still be eligible for discounts through Microsoft's Volume Licensing program. Microsoft-authorized resellers cater to government, health, education, and charity organizations.
If you are eligible for donations through TechSoup but have received your quota for the year, this is a great next place to turn.
See Licensing Options for Industries for details. Technology Leadership Grants: Through the Technology Leadership Grants program, Microsoft gives grants of money and products to a few national nonprofits. Several discount software programs provide substantial savings to nonprofit organizations on many popular applications.
While some resellers require only proof of c 3 status, others impose further eligibility restrictions. Program Summary: TechSoup, a c 3 nonprofit organization, distributes donated and discounted products from dozens of companies such as Microsoft, Symantec, and Adobe. There are no registration or shipping and handling fees. TechSoup is a great first place to look for software donations and discounts as well as refurbished hardware and online technology services.
Program Guidelines: All nonprofits must provide a copy of their c 3 documentation to be eligible for TechSoup donations and discount programs valid U. For a list of eligibility restrictions by partner, please visit the TechSoup partner restrictions page.
Ordering: In order to request products, you must register yourself as an individual user and then register your organization. Our tutorial will guide you through the process. Program Guidelines: c 3 documentation is required for nonprofit discounts. Discounts are also available for those in the health care industry. Program Summary: Several software companies Autodesk, Citrix , Novell, and more coordinate product giving programs through Good, which is a nonprofit organization.
Good also offers donated office supplies, toys, clothes, and more. To cover costs, Good charges a handling fee. Good serves nonprofit organizations as well as American Indian reservations.
Ordering: Although Good's donation offerings change weekly, they provide an up-to-date list of software and hardware donations. Lynch notes that well over half of all donors only give to an organization once, rather than providing recurring donations, which nonprofits rely on to survive.
The reason Lynch knows so much about nonprofit software needs is because he works for TechSoup , one of the leading nonprofit organizations that helps charities meet their technological needs. As he explains, most nonprofits start with nothing—no staff, no budget, sometimes even no business experience—except for a passion for their cause. TechSoup is probably most famous for their product donations program, wherein they serve as a middleman between large software vendors that want to engage in corporate social responsibility CSR and charities.
Vendors supply software to TechSoup as a donation grant. Then, TechSoup does the work of validating nonprofits and providing the software to them at a huge discount, sometimes as low as 5 percent of retail cost. Rather than going to the vendors, that fee goes back to TechSoup itself to support their operations. They also need support for implementing and learning to use the software.
And our education arm does articles and trainings and online courses, webinars, all that kind of stuff, to train people on how to use all of this stuff.
Through this free educational outreach , TechSoup aims to show nonprofits the importance of investing time and effort into software training and adoption, and not just securing the software itself. In doing so, they will lower their overall costs in the long term. They do this in a variety of ways, including publications and e-books, assessments and trainings.
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