Getting Started with TechSoup Product Donations

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Overview of TechSoup Product Donations

TechSoup's product donation service connects nonprofits with technology product donations from more than 40 leading corporate and nonprofit technology partners. As a nonprofit organization, our mission is to help other organizations further their programmatic goals through the intelligent use of technology.

To find out more about us, see About Us.

• Key Features and Benefits
• Who Can Receive Product Donations
• About Administrative Fees
• Privacy Policy

Key Features and Benefits

• TechSoup distributes donated and highly discounted technology products to eligible nonprofits and public libraries in a supportive educational environment.
• Our administrative fees are low — typically 4 to 20 percent of retail prices — thanks to generous donations and discounts from over 40 technology partners, including Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, Cisco, Intuit, FileMaker, and Sage.
• You can place requests for product donations quickly and easily online. There are no registration or membership fees to use TechSoup resources or to request product donations.
• TechSoup is a nonprofit serving nonprofits. TechSoup is a project of San Francisco–based TechSoup Global. Since 2002, our low fees have saved over 138,000 nonprofits more than $2.2 billion*, a savings they can redirect into their programs. *As of 12/31/2010

Who Can Receive Product Donations

Nonprofits with valid 501(c)(3) status and public libraries listed in the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) database can register with TechSoup. Individuals and nonprofits with other status types are not currently eligible to request donations.

TechSoup does not provide donated or discounted products to organizations that advocate, support, or practice discrimination based on age, ethnicity, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background. Organizations must be willing and able to confirm that they do not discriminate on any of these grounds in order to receive donations.

Your organization's location, annual operating budget, and the mission selected during registration (defined as type/subtype), will determine your eligibility for product donations. Our donor partners determine which of these types/subtypes align with their donation philosophy.

Please Note: Not all organizations will be eligible to receive all products. To determine if your organization is eligible to receive donations from a given partner, please review our Nonprofit Eligibility Requirements and Donor Partner Restrictions page or log in to take our Check Program Eligibility Quiz.

About Administrative Fees

Our administrative fees partially subsidize our donation programs and ensure that TechSoup can continue to offer donated and discounted technology products as efficiently as possible, at the lowest possible cost. The fees vary by program and are based on a number of factors:

• The amount of work involved in launching the program
• The amount of work involved in qualifying and processing organizations' requests for products on an ongoing basis
• The expected volume of requests
• For discount programs, the nature of our agreement with the partner or supplier

Privacy Policy

All of your information is encrypted to ensure privacy. Our servers are located in a secure facility and are protected by a sophisticated firewall. We do not share or sell email addresses to third parties. For details, see our Privacy Statement.

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