When nonprofits got down to serve their communities, expertise just isn’t all the time on the forefront of their minds. Their most important focus, as an alternative, could also be offering starvation aid, being a voice for the missed and unprotected, or guaranteeing truthful accessibility. For organizations in these areas and plenty of extra, expertise is a way to an finish to result in change for the causes that they’ve dedicated to.
That is not a nasty factor. Actually, it is a actually good factor, and we help it one hundred pc.
Entry to inexpensive, related, and helpful expertise is pure if you happen to’re a small nonprofit group trying to make a distinction in a trigger you care about. You need an expertise that reduces the stress and uncertainty of expertise acquisition, significantly if you happen to’re not conversant in the method.
TechSoup has acknowledged that since its early existence. Our objective has all the time been to assist reduce the trouble for organizations to entry, simply perceive, and successfully use expertise affordably. It is evident in our mission assertion:
“To construct a dynamic bridge that leverages expertise to allow connections and modern options for a extra equitable planet.”
However, because the world modifications round us, how can we proceed to do this in one of the simplest ways for these we serve?
TechSoup Membership Is Evolving
Digital options are altering and evolving day by day. There are new apps, new options, GenAI, and updates inside your current options that can be utilized to unravel your challenges. You additionally must suppose otherwise about expertise choices. Since most options are actually subscription-based, planning turns into extra crucial than ever.
The concept of TechSoup membership just isn’t new — we have all the time considered the organizations that help us as members, and the entire further providers now we have developed will proceed to be a part of the TechSoup expertise.
After considerate consideration and analysis, now we have decided that essentially the most supportive means to do this is thru restructuring and tiering our membership mannequin in order that organizations can interact with TechSoup on the degree that makes essentially the most sense to them. New and current TechSoup members now have three choices to select from:
- DIY (do-it-yourself, no annual price)
- Enhance ($99 yearly)
- Quad ($200 yearly)
To be taught extra, go to our TechSoup Membership web page. I will describe every under in additional element.
DIY — Entry the Important Know-how You Want
The DIY (do-it-yourself) mannequin is what you’re used to in the present day. It empowers any certified nonprofit to achieve inexpensive entry to over 400 discounted merchandise throughout 80+ donor companions. There isn’t a annual price for being a DIY member, and thus no further value to your group.
This membership degree is acceptable if you realize precisely what you need and are eligible for, and you may independently be taught and educate your self on the expertise options you purchase.
All validated TechSoup member organizations will proceed to have entry to a catalog of assorted discounted and donated services. Meaning you’ll proceed to have full entry to presents from Microsoft, Adobe, Intuit, Norton, Avast, and lots of of different companions.
DIY members may even proceed to have entry to our sector-specific providers and programs. In the event you’re certified with TechSoup in the present day, you are most certainly a DIY member, however we invite you to find out about the advantages of the opposite ranges.
Enhance — Uncover New Options to Energy Your Work
TechSoup has lengthy been identified for the discounted merchandise that we make accessible. By turning into a Enhance member, you get further reductions on a choose group of fashionable merchandise, unique presents not discovered within the broader catalog, and curated product suggestions the place now we have researched presents and capabilities in your behalf.
On the Enhance membership degree, you possibly can shortly be taught what you are eligible for and all of the options that may help you (even these expertise nonprofit presents unavailable by TechSoup), enabling you to match simply and determine shortly.
For Enhance members, TechSoup turns into greater than a degree of entry — it turns into a spot for discovery to get what you need and find out about the way to get different merchandise it’s your decision, in addition to these you did not know you wished or have been even eligible for.
Quad — Get Peer Help and Professional Solutions
Nonprofits have lengthy instructed us that they want us to share extra sources, extra coaching, extra content material, and deeper ranges of help. That is additionally a direct response to the altering nature of expertise — it helps us help you with expertise you have already got, it doesn’t matter what channel you acquired it from.
So, now we have additionally launched varied ways in which organizations can interact and be taught properly past buying a expertise answer. Quad gives entry to unique webinars and content material, in addition to reside technologists and consultants in varied domains that will help you perceive and get essentially the most out of your expertise stack.
As well as, Quad presents a dynamic, rising, non-public on-line group for as much as 10 members of your group to share and be taught out of your nonprofit friends about expertise challenges and higher methods to serve your communities.
Be a part of Us in Our Journey
We’re nonetheless within the early phases of what we envision to be a robust drive for good in our sector, and we’re quickly making changes and tweaks to enhance the fashions whereas permitting you to decide on what works for you flexibly. This evolution of TechSoup membership has already begun by the value-added applications now we have constructed up, and now we’ll be capable of do it extra responsibly, conservatively, and sustainably.
We invite you to be taught extra about which TechSoup membership tier is best for you and to affix us within the subsequent part of this journey.
