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About TechSoup

Founded in 1987 as CompuMentor, TechSoup is one of the most comprehensive nonprofit technology assistance providers in the world, employing a staff of 150 and deploying a budget of over $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, its program aimed at building NGO capacity worldwide. For an overview of TechSoup's 2007 fiscal year milestones, download our TechSoup Screenshot (1 MB PDF) .

Bios of our CEO team

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

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.

TechSoup announced it has received a grant from United Way of the Bay Area, which it will use to help Bay Area nonprofits strengthen their technology infrastructure.

TechSoup and Mailshell, Inc. today announced the fifth annual “Stop Spam Today!” campaign, a month-long nationwide effort to help nonprofits and public libraries fight spam by providing free information, resources and tools.

Recent Media Coverage

Tim Suttle and Jim Lynch of TechSoup are featured on the launch of the Cisco Learning Network Green IT page.

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."

Business Week covers the House of Representative Hearing on Online Virtual Worlds, during which TechSoup's Susan Tenby delivered a statement on TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life

This Nonprofit Times article on online donation processing quotes TechSoup's Daniel Ben-Horin.