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One of Microsoft New Zealand’s goals is to substantially increase the amount of software we donate each year to charitable organisations. Up until a year or so back the request and approval process was somewhat manual and we were becoming frustrated at how long it was taking us to review and approve requests.
The frustration was due to the fact that we were dealing with a large – and increasing - number of applications and the complexity of processing them meant we weren’t able to donate software anywhere near as quickly as we wanted to. Fortunately we weren’t the only subsidiary in that position and the decision was made in Redmond to appoint a third party to manage this process for us on a worldwide basis. That organisation is TechSoup.
The good news is that TechSoup are doing a great job for us here in New Zealand as you can see from the graph above. The specific numbers are:
- Aug 07 – Feb 08 approx NZD 827,088 of software donated to 55 charitable organisations
- Aug 08 – Feb 09 approx NZD 2,050,200 of software donated to 178 charitable organisations
At the current rate, we’re averaging $292,886 worth of software donations to 25 organisations each and every month. Looking at it another way, YTD donations have more than doubled and the number of organisations we’ve donated to has more than trebled. But…
… we think we can do even better than that and I would love for you to help prove us right
If you are involved in a charitable organisation and would like to apply for a software donation please head to the TechSoup NZ site and click on the “Getting Started” link to start the process. I’ll post an update in a few months to let you know how we’re tracking.
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