How to Use TechSoup
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TechSoup is a nonprofit that provides technology assistance and donations to other nonprofits and libraries to help them fulfill their missions. It offers access to 400+ technology products from over 45 donor partners through a simple 5 step process: 1) create a user profile, 2) register your organization, 3) submit your IRS nonprofit documentation, 4) check eligibility, and 5) request and purchase qualified donations. It also provides educational resources like articles, webinars, and an online community forum to help nonprofits and libraries make the most of technology.
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How to Use TechSoup
- 1. How to Use TechSoup Technology donations for nonprofits and libraries
- 2. Product Donations Learning Center Online Community
- 3. About TechSoup We are working toward a time when every nonprofit and social benefit organization on the planet has the technology resources and knowledge they need. TechSoup Global, founded in 1987 as The CompuMentor Project, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides technology assistance to other nonprofit organizations in the United States and in 35 countries. In the last 10 years, TechSoup Global has saved the world’s nonprofit sector more than $2 billion in IT expenses.
- 4. What will you find at TechSoup.Org? TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. TechSoup has articles, blogs, free webinars, and forums led by expert hosts are available to all users. Once qualified with TechSoup, nonprofits and libraries can access 400+ technology products from more than 45 donor partners — including Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, and Symantec. All donated and discounted products are available for a small admin fee that supports our work in the U.S. and around the world.
- 6. Donations from 45 technology partners
- 7. Example of a detailed product page
- 8. Get Started Step 1: Join TechSoup (Individual user profile) Step 2: Register Your Organization Step 3: Fax a copy of your IRS 501(c)(3) letter Step 4: Check Your Organization’s Eligibility Step 5: Request a Donation and Check Out
- 9. Step 1: Join TechSoup (create an Individual user profile)
- 10. Step 2: Register Your Organization (or link to an existing account)
- 11. Step 3: Fax a copy of your IRS 501(c)(3) “Nonprofit Letter” to 800-633-9400
- 12. Step 4: Check Your Organization’s Eligibility Now that you’ve qualified for TechSoup, review every technology partner’s unique guidelines to check product eligibility – with the touch of a button.
- 13. Step 5: Request a Donation Find a product Review the product details Add it to your cart
- 14. Step 6: Check Out
- 15. Digital Catalog
- 17. Latest Articles
- 18. Browse by Topic
- 19. Security Corner
- 20. GreenTech
- 22. Webinars Free weekly webinars Follow-up conversation in the community forum Slides & Recordings available
- 23. “By The Cup” & “New Product Alert”
- 25. TechSoup Blog
- 26. TechSoup in Second Life
- 27. Find us on Facebook
- 28. Help/Contact Us Client Services (800) 659-3579 For faster service, please have your organization's EIN, Tax ID Number, or your TechSoup Donation Request Number on hand when you call. Submit questions via email Visit our Frequently Asked Questions Press Contact Glenn Hirsch TSG Communications (415) 633-9403 [email_address]
- 29. TechSoup.Org is part of TechSoup Global Global Network - San Francisco, Warsaw, London - partners in 35 countries NetSquared - 27,000 people sharing solutions in 79 cities around the world TechSoup.Org - product donations and education for nonprofits and libraries NGOsource - opening philanthropic channels to global communities GuideStar Intl. - global data services for greater sustainability
Editor's Notes
- #2: This presentation can be found at www.slideshare.net/techsoupglobal
- #3: This presentation created April 18, 2011.
- #4: For more information, please visit www.techsoupglobal.org.
- #5: TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. As part of that goal, we provide technology products and information geared specifically to the unique challenges faced by nonprofits and libraries. Learning resources, including articles, blogs, free webinars, and forums led by expert hosts are available to all users. Once qualified with TechSoup, nonprofits and libraries can access 400+ technology products from more than 40 donor partners — including Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, and Symantec. All donated and discounted products are available for a small admin fee that supports our work in the United States and around the world.
- #6: www.techsoup.org
- #7: Donor partners as of April 15, 2011
- #8: http://home.techsoup.org/stock/pages/product.aspx?cat=techsoup%20global%20catalog&category=&id=g-43086
- #9: www.techsoup.org/stock
- #10: Create a user profile.
- #11: This takes only a few minutes.
- #14: Not sure if it’s the right product? Search our Forum and our Learning Center for a discussion … http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/
- #16: http://home.techsoup.org/pages/catalog.aspx
- #17: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/
- #18: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/latestarticles/
- #19: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/latestarticles
- #20: http://www.techsoup.org/security/
- #21: http://www.techsoup.org/greentech/
- #22: http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/
- #23: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webinars/index.cfm
- #24: On the TechSoup.Org home page
- #25: http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community
- #26: http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/b/tsblog/
- #27: http://www.techsoup.org/community/Second%20Life/page4997.cfm
- #28: http://www.facebook.com/TechSoupGlobal
- #29: Try an email question first, or phone the 800.659.3579 account management services line…
- #30: TechSoup Global Network. We partner with NGOs around the world to deliver relationships, technology, and expertise that enhance their service to their communities. These partner NGOs customize our offerings, providing their beneficiaries with resources that combine the best of global knowledge and local perspective. NetSquared. This global network of local communities empowers individuals to build and share their solutions to social challenges, identifying and accelerating the most innovative of those projects. With over 27,000 members registered online and events in 79 cities around the world, NetSquared is a vibrant on- and offline community. TechSoup.Org. Perhaps the largest technology philanthropy program in the world, TechSoup.org connects nonprofit organizations and libraries to the resources and knowledge they need to operate at full potential. Visited by over 188,000 individuals monthly, this online community is a place to build capacity, make connections, and share solutions. NGOsource. In 2009, TechSoup Global was selected by the Council on Foundations to host a new centralized NGO repository, which will offer the U.S. grantmaking community a streamlined solution to the often expensive, time-consuming, and duplicative process of Equivalency Determination (determining if an NGO outside of the United States is a valid equivalent to a U.S. public charity). GuideStar International. We teamed up with U.K.-based GuideStar International (GSI) to improve our capacity-building programs for civil society. GSI works with civil society leaders worldwide to develop transparency and civil society organization reporting in their own countries. GSI supports this growing network through the provision of a shared common technology platform as well as advice and support in each country’s development process.
- #31: For our 200 staff in San Francisco, London and Warsaw -- and for all of our partners -- nothing is more important than supporting the individuals and organizations who are working in their communities for change.