TechSoup Global Launches Technology Portal for Canadian Nonprofit Community

Quick Facts

• TechSoup Canada is the Canadian partner of TechSoup Global, which manages product donations to more than 80,000 organizations in 22 countries through its global network of capacity-building NGOs.

• TechSoup Canada is funded in part by the Ontario Trillium Foundation and is a collaborative effort by TechSoup Global, the Centre for Social Innovation, and the Information Technology Association of Canada.

• In March 2008, TechSoup Canada and its collaborative partners received a two year, $310,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario, to help with the costs involved with establishing the program.

• TechSoup Canada is supported by 25 leading technology corporations, including: Microsoft, Adobe, Intuit Canada, Symantec, Business Objects, SAP, and Cisco.

• For details on the product donation program, please visit www.techsoupcanada.ca/product.

• In 2008, 2,348 charities, non-profits and libraries received a technology donation in Canada, 1500 of these received a Microsoft software donation.

• In 2008, close to $21.5 million in software and hardware donations were distributed to the Canadian non-profit community, of which Microsoft donated more than $18.7 million in software.

About the Centre for Social Innovation
The Centre for Social Innovation (www.socialinnovation.ca) is a social
enterprise with a mission to catalyze social innovation in its home base of
Toronto and around the globe. We believe that society is facing unprecedented
economic, environmental, social and cultural challenges. We also believe that
new innovations are the key to turning these challenges into opportunities to
improve our communities and our planet.