Nonprofit organizations are also sometimes referred to as charities or non-governmental organizations outside the USA.

So a technical assistance (TA) provider could offer services to help nonprofit organizations improve their fund-raising methods, or the way they provide services, or the way they manage their information technology. Frequently these TA providers receive funding from a state government or private foundations to help certain types of nonprofit organizations.

Technical assistance providers who specialize in information technology are referred to as “non-profit technology assistance providers.”

CompuMentor, the organization Marnie and I work for, is a major non-profit technology assistance provider located in the United States. ConsultantCommons is one of our newer efforts. One of our better-known programs is TechSoup Stock, which distributes to non-profits software donated by vendors such as Microsoft. Although we’re based in the US, we also offer this service to charities and nonprofits in Canada.

http://www.techsoup.org/stock/canada/

Call or write any time for more info.

zmutrux@compumentor.org
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+1-415-633-9437

Also, to be clear, we’ve set the site up so that anyone can, in turn, republish what’s on their. We’ve also set user rights such that anyone can do, essentially, the same things with the site that we can.

And, if you’re interested in what a nonprofit technical assistance provide is, NTEN — http://www.nten.org — is a great resource.

Again, thanks for furthering the discussion. Thanks also for good content.

(and, yes, I work for CompuMentor)