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TechSoup staff is often asked to present at sector events. Recent speaking engagements are listed below.
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- March 19-21, 2008 New Orleans, LA
Nonprofit Technology Conference - TechSoup co-CEO Marnie Webb spoke at the session: "Changing your CEO from Barrier to Partner"
- March 19-21, 2008 New Orleans, LA
Nonprofit Technology Conference - TechSoup's Senior Manager for Community Development, Susan Tenby, spoke at the session: "Getting Started in Second Life"
- March 9-11, 2008 Boston, MA
9th Social Enterprise Summit - TechSoup's Global Network representative Antony Chiang and William Holden of Charity Technology Trust, the British TechSoup Global partner, presented on "At the crossroads: outsourcing versus partnerships as expansion strategy"
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About TechSoup
Founded in 1987 as The CompuMentor Project, TechSoup is one of the most comprehensive nonprofit technology assistance providers in the world, employing a staff of 170 and deploying a budget of $18 million. It conducts a range of major programs on the international, national, and the local level, including the operation of its nonprofit technology Web site TechSoup and its distribution service for technology product donations, TechSoup Stock. TechSoup’s newest programs are the NetSquared initiative to help nonprofits worldwide use new Internet-based tools such as blogging and podcasting to extend their reach and impact and TechSoup Global Network, its program aimed at building NGO capacity worldwide. For an overview of TechSoup's 2008 fiscal year milestones, download our TechSoup Screenshot (894 KB PDF) .
Bios of our CEO team
- Daniel Ben-Horin, Founder and Co-CEO
- Rebecca Masisak, Co-CEO
- Marnie Webb, Co-CEO
TechSoup's testimony before the House of Representatives on 4/1/08
TechSoup was asked to testify about its activities in Second Life before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. The hearing's topic was "Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium."
Susan Tenby, TechSoup's Senior Manager of Online Community Development, delivered TechSoup's statement - An Introduction to The Nonprofit Commons in Second Life (113 KB DOC)
Recent Press Releases
Ending a month-long submission period, San Francisco-based nonprofit technology assistance provider TechSoup (www.techsoup.org) today announced the winners of the Show Your Impact Design Contest (www.showyourimpact.org).
TechSoup and global job skills training provider, the International Commission on Workforce Development (ICWFD) have entered into a partnership that will provide U.S. and Canadian nonprofit organizations and libraries access to job skills training courses through ICWFD's e-learning platform.
Nonprofit technology assistance provider TechSoup announced today a $500,000 grant from The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) to distribute 9,500 Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) computers to nonprofits and low-income families by October 2009.
San Francisco-based nonprofit technology resource and provider TechSoup and Internet software provider for the social sector CitySoft Inc. announced today CitySoft's donation of its Community Enterprise (CE) open-source enterprise software to U.S. and Canada-based nonprofits.
Announcement of the 2008 NetSquared Conference hosted by Cisco Systems
TechSoup partner release: The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS) in partnership with US-based non-profit TechSoup launched the TechDonation programme.
Recent Media Coverage
Microsoft's new portal, NGO Connection, is a well-organized, user-friendly and comprehensive guide to the free, the donated and the affordable.
Tim Suttle and Jim Lynch of TechSoup are featured on the launch of the Cisco Learning Network Green IT page.
"TechSoup distributes products like software to 50,000 groups a year. 'We were just trying to meet the needs of nonprofits,' said Rebecca Masisak, co-C.E.O ..."
Check out what Jon Stewart of the Daily Show had to say about the congressional hearing on online virtual worlds and learn why he can't forgive TechSoup's Susan Tenby...
The "Louisiana Nonprofits Blog" by the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organization sums up nicely why TechSoup gained such popularity among its fellow nonprofits: "If you want to buy it, chances are TechSoup has it cheap, and if you want to know it, chances are TechSoup has the answer."
The Mercury News reports: "Susan Tenby turned serious as she described her work as senior manager of San Francisco-based TechSoup, a technology Web site for non-profits. Virtual worlds are offering grass-roots groups low-cost ways of organizing, raising money and advocating for causes."
