TechSoup Sees Upside for Nonprofits in Downturn

"I'm a child of the '60s and I believe in the phenomenon of a social zeitgeist," Ben-Horin said last week. "This is a time that will actually be good for nonprofits. It's a time that will be good for reinvention. It's a time when a lot of talented people will reexamine how they spend their time."

For TechSoup ( www.techsoup.org), which charges an administrative fee to make donated technology affordable to charities and public libraries around the world, it is a time of growth.