Web Site OffersTechnology Discounts

September 18, 2003

A new Web site provides discounted hardware, software, and technology services to nonprofit organizations.

TechMarketplace is a project of TechFoundation, a Cambridge, Mass., charity that was founded in 2001 to improve nonprofit organizations’ access to information technology.

Among the products that are available at a discount on the site: Dell computers and servers, online technology-training courses from SkillSoft, and all merchandise at CDW, an online store that sells computer equipment and software.

To order products, organizations must have 501(c)(3) status from the Internal Revenue Service.

To get there: Go to http://www.techfoundation.org/techmarketplace.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.