TechSoup Global Network

TechSoup Canada provides Canadian charities, nonprofits, and libraries with a unique mix of technology resources, learning content, and community support.

TechSoup Canada is a program of the TechSoup Global Network, managed directly by TechSoup. Being a nonprofit ourselves, we understand all too well the challenges facing the Canadian nonprofit sector, and we want to help. We can connect you to donated and discounted technologies through our technology donations program and provide valuable learning resources to equip you and your colleagues with technology tips and best practices.

We know that our sector is achieving great work, and we believe we can have an even greater impact through the effective use of technology. Let us help you on your tech journey!

TechSoup Chile (formerly DonaTec) is the donation program operated in Chile by CDI (The Committee for Democracy in Information Technology), which was founded in Brazil in 1995 by Rodrigo Baggio. It now operates in eight South American countries, with the mission to promote the social inclusion of low-income communities by using information and communication technologies as tools for building and exercising citizen rights. CDI Chile joined the TechSoup Global Network in 2007.

Founded in 2006, NPI (Nonprofit Incubator) has built out the leading support network for nonprofits and social enterprises in China. It has launched 11 offices and more than 40 project sites nationwide. It was named a National 5A-Class Social Organization and a National Excellent Social Organization by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. In partnership with government departments at all levels, philanthropic foundations, and Fortune 500 companies, NPI has promoted social innovation over the past 12 years. It has worked extensively in nonprofit incubation, capacity building, development of a community services platform, evaluation of government procurements, venture philanthropy, and operation of innovative spaces.

MAKAIA joined the TechSoup Global Network in 2013 to provide a validation service for Microsoft's Office 365 for Nonprofits applicants in a number of Latin American countries.

MAKAIA expanded its partnership with TechSoup in 2014 with the launch of Programa de Tecnología para el Sector Social, which enables nonprofits to access other software donations.

MAKAIA Asesoría Internacional was founded in 2006 and focuses on capacity building in civil society organizations, social enterprises, local governments, and social responsibility initiatives that support the social and economic development of Colombia and Latin America.

TechSoup Česká Republika is operated in partnership with the VIA Association and TechSoup. The program was launched as part of the TechSoup Global Network in 2010.

The VIA Association and VIA Foundation assist people who have taken the initiative to create positive change in their communities. Since its establishment in 1997, the VIA Foundation has emerged as the largest private supporter of community development in the Czech Republic.

Volunteer Centers & Self-Help Denmark (FriSe) joined the TechSoup Global Network in 2014 to support non profit organizations in Denmark. In 2019, they expanded their services to support Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. FriSe is a nationwide member organization for 86 local volunteer centers and self-help organizations in Denmark. Their vision is a strong and diverse civil society, where everyone has the opportunity to volunteer and seek help and support in the social good community.

TechSoup Egypt is operated in partnership with the Professional Development Foundation and was launched with TechSoup in 2010.

The Professional Development Foundation is an NGO formed in 1998 by leading members of the private sector, with a clear objective to develop Egypt's business sector and enable it to compete in the global arena.

SolidaTech is operated by Ateliers du Bocage (AdB), the social economy branch of Emmaüs France.

SolidaTech's mission is to reduce the digital divide and support the social integration of individuals and associations. SolidaTech focuses on job creation in the areas of e-waste, recycling, and reuse. It advocates for the reuse of equipment and facilitates access to computer hardware for individuals and NGOs.

Stifter-helfen.de is the IT donation portal of Haus des Stiftens gGmbH in partnership with TechSoup.

Haus des Stiftens gGmbH is a nonprofit entity that operates as a charitable limited company. It offers a broad range of services and support to charitable foundations, social enterprises, and nonprofit organizations to help them fulfill their social mission. Stifter-helfen.de was launched in 2008 to give German nonprofits access to the software and hardware donation programs. Stifter-helfen.de also offers workshops and webinars to support digital competencies and resources in the nonprofit sector.

In 2012, a portal was launched in Austria, and an additional portal was launched in Switzerland in late 2013.

TechSoup Ghana is operated by The West Africa Civil Society Institute. The West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) was established by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) in 2005 to reinforce the capacities of civil society. Its mission is to strengthen civil society in West Africa to be responsive, collaborative, representative, resilient, and influential through knowledge sharing, learning, connecting and influencing. WACSI joined the TechSoup Global network in 2017. Now, in partnership with TechSoup, it serves the following countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

Impact Hub Athens has been a partner in the TechSoup Global Network since 2015. In-line with the global Impact Hub network, its mission is to explore ideas, share knowledge, and gain access to essential resources and capital while creating a powerful ecosystem to build entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale.

TechDonation is operated by The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS) and was launched in partnership with TechSoup in 2007.

HKCSS was established in 1947 with a commitment to sustain and develop social welfare in Hong Kong. HKCSS is an umbrella organization of more than 340 agency members that provide over 90 percent of the social welfare services for those in need through their 3,000 service units all over Hong Kong.

HKCSS has partnered with TechSoup and TSGN partner Connecting Up to launch the donation programs in six countries of Southeast Asia.

HKCSS also operates the TechDonation program in Macau.

CivilTech is operated by Nonprofit Információs és Oktató Központ (NOIK) Alapítvány (the Nonprofit Information and Training Center Foundation) and was launched in partnership with TechSoup in 2007.

The NIOK Foundation's mission is to strengthen civil society in Hungary. It strives to make civil society stronger through the work of nonprofit organizations and to lay the groundwork that promotes the long-term operation of those organizations. Its programs improve the professionalism and effectiveness of nonprofits and strengthen their relationship with government, the business community, and society as a whole.

BiGTech is operated by the NASSCOM Foundation and launched in 2007.

The NASSCOM Foundation is the charitable arm of NASSCOM, the leading voice of the Indian IT industry. The foundation relies heavily on partnerships between NGOs, industry, and government agencies. It is committed to building IT capacity in civil society and has launched more than 100 rural knowledge centers throughout India.

Kitabisa joined the TechSoup Global Network in 2014 and gradually expanded their role in supporting Indonesian civil society through TechSoup's programs and other grant-funded projects. Kitabisa's mission is to provide an online technology platform for individuals, communities, organizations, and companies to transparently raise funds and donate online.

The ENCLUDEit Programme is brought to Ireland by ENCLUDE, an independent nonprofit IT consultancy service to the Irish nonprofit sector, in partnership with TechSoup. ENCLUDE is about e-inclusion: the reduction of the digital divide in Irish society. It brings affordable, trustworthy systems and IT consultancy to Irish charities to maximize the benefits of IT in the areas of performance improvement, operation efficiency, and the better use of donor funds.

Its longer-term mission is to create high-impact initiatives that will offer solutions to groups of organizations and help move the sector as a whole ahead in its use of technology.

The Rashi Foundation is an independent, private philanthropic foundation and a social organization dedicated to assisting the underprivileged in Israel, particularly children and youth. Since its inception in 1984, Rashi operates with the belief that every individual has an equal opportunity to realize his or her full potential. After starting out as a grant-making foundation, Rashi gradually evolved into a social entreprise that identifies needs and responds by initiating and building innovative education and welfare solutions. As the scope expands, Rashi Foundation has been providing IT solutions to local nonprofits and will further support nonprofits through the programs operated in partnership with TechSoup.

Rashi Foundation joined the TechSoup Global Network in January 2019.

TechSoup Italia was launched in 2010 as a collaborative effort between SocialTechno impresa sociale Srl and TechSoup.

SocialTechno promotes digital literacy and technological development in Italian nonprofit organizations. It creates synergies with the for-profit world to allow the charitable sector to access innovation and make better use of technology.

TechSoup Japan is operated by Japan NPO Center and was launched in partnership with TechSoup in 2009.

The Japan NPO Center was established in 1996 to strengthen the foundation of nonprofit organizations in Japan. Its goal is to build strategic partnerships between the nonprofit sector and the business and government sectors.

TechSoup Kenya was relaunched in July 2015 as a partnership between the Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) and TechSoup.

KCDF is a Kenyan grantmaking organization that was founded and registered in 1997 as a public foundation. KCDF invests significant resources to build, strengthen, and sustain the core capacities of poor, marginalized, and disadvantaged communities.

TechSoup Korea was launched in 2015 in collaboration with the NPO IT Support Center in Seoul, Connecting Up in Australia, and The Hong Kong Council of Social Service.

Yayasan Salam Malaysia's focus is to promote the spirit of volunteerism among Malaysians and provide volunteering opportunities to willing individuals in local communities and abroad.

Yayasan Salam Malaysia joined the TechSoup Global Network in 2011.

OSC Digital began in Mexico in 2008 as a partnership between TechSoup and Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía (Cemefi).

Cemefi is a membership association with more than 700 members, which include civil society organizations, individuals, and corporations.

Cemefi's mission is to promote the participation of committed and socially responsible citizens and civil society organizations in order to increase solidarity, equity, and prosperity in Mexican society. To fulfill its mission, Cemefi supports the development of civil society organizations, as well as corporate social responsibility programs by major companies.

Located in North Macedonia, Metamorphosis Foundation joined the TechSoup Global Network in 2014 and helps support local nonprofit organizations as well as ngos in nearby Albania and Kosovo. Metamorphosis Foundation works to strengthen the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfil its democratic role in serving society.

TechSoup Norway is operated by Frivillighet Norge in partnership with TechSoup.

Frivillighet Norge (The Association of NGOs in Norway) has been a member of the TechSoup Global Network since 2014. Frivillighet Norge is a forum organization for the voluntary sector in Norway with over 300 member organizations. Their mission is to coordinate the voluntary sector's dialogue with the authorities and to voice their common opinions to the public.

The TechSoup Romania program is a partnership between Asociația TechSoup, Ateliere Fara Frontiere (Workshops Without Borders), and TechSoup.

TechSoup.ro offers Romanian NGOs support and inspiration to use technology in order to make Romania a better place. TechSoup Romania also develops programs that link Romania's very active and enthusiastic IT industry and Romanian NGOs, such as ReStart Romania and Innovation Labs.

TeploDigital is operated by Teplitsa of Social Technologies in partnership with TechSoup.

Teplitsa is a public educational project aimed to develop cooperation between the nonprofit sector and IT-specialists. It includes a website, a series of educational events, and a software development team with associated products.

Teplitsa's main goal is to strengthen civil society with the smart use of technology. Through connecting civic activists, nonprofit workers, and socially engaged techies, media, and creative businesses, Teplitsa works on building a culture of creation of civic online applications.

TechTrans’s mission is to enable nonprofit organizations to use information technology efficiently to achieve their objectives and maximize their impact. Its focus is bridging the technical divide and making tech solutions accessible to all Arabic-speaking nonprofits worldwide. The TechSoup donation program complements the organization's varied initiatives and programs, including a platform connecting tech and digital media professionals with nonprofits, a bespoke training program, an online training platform, workshops, publications, and consulting.

Learn more about TechTrans here, and its programs here.

TechSoup Slovakia is operated by the Pontis Foundation and was launched in partnership with TechSoup in 2009. One of the basic aims of the Pontis Foundation is to support local Slovak NGOs and increase their access to modern technology. TechSoup Slovakia puts this vision in practice with its technology donation platform.

The Pontis Foundation provides administrative and organizational services for NGOs and corporate foundations to help them improve their administrative, technical, and organizational work.

TechSoup Slovenia is operated in partnership with MISSS (Youth Information and Counselling Center in Slovenia) and was launched with TechSoup in 2009.

MISSS is a major youth center in Slovenia; it has long worked in partnership with the Microsoft Citizenship program. It operates through 16 youth centers in Slovenia that support young people with diverse counseling and information programs and other activities.

TechSoup South Africa is operated by Phambano Technology Development Centre, a purpose-driven organization with the aim of becoming the go-to solution for technology capacity-building in civil society organizations across Southern Africa. Through technology development initiatives, we provide both one-time and ongoing support to organizations in need. Phambano Technology Development Centre provides a wide range of services to organizations across Southern Africa, increasing their skills and capacity and empowering them to reach more beneficiaries at a local and global level.

TechSoup Türkiye is the IT donation program that is operated by the Civil Society Development Center (Sivil Toplum Geli_tirme Merkezi) in partnership with TechSoup.

The mission of STGM is to provide advocacy, campaign, research, training, and advocacy activities to promote a strong and democratic civil society, in order to

• Ensure the development of participation and democracy in civil society
• Strengthen organizational capacity and autonomy
• Make the voice of civil society heard in decision-making processes

TechSoup Ukraine is operated in partnership with the GURT Resource Centre (GURT) and was launched with TechSoup in 2016.

Since 1995, GURT Resource Centre has been actively involved in developing local communities in Ukraine through fostering civic engagement, strengthening local governance, and serving as a national resource center for information and expertise on civil society. GURT's mission is to contribute to democratic societal transformation in Ukraine through capacity-building programs for civil society actors that ensure dignity, confidence, and trust among citizens at local and national levels.

Charity Digital Exchange (formerly tt-exchange) is the NGO Marketplace program of Charity Digital operated in partnership with TechSoup.

Charity Digital, established in 2001, (rebranded from TechTrust in 2019) empowers UK charities through the effective use of technology. It provides online fundraising, email marketing, and cloud solutions for nonprofits. Charity Digital focuses mainly on the provision of a wide range of donated products and services that are used to increase the efficiency of charities in many of their core areas of activity.

TechSoup is the founding member and leader of the TechSoup Global Network, and helps nonprofits around the world get and use technology to heighten their impact. It provides technology donations, training, events, and community-building initiatives to nonprofits. In addition, TechSoup uses its pivotal role as connector between sectors to help companies and foundations optimize their philanthropic impact. To facilitate local connections, the TechSoup Global Network operates active regional hubs as TechSoup Africa, TechSoup Asia Pacific, and TechSoup Europe.