TechSoup Global Blog

I am very pleased to welcome Madhu Anand as the new Director of the TechSoup Global Network!

Madhu has extensive global experience in a variety of leadership positions in financial management and operational program management in corporations and non-profit organizations. Her most recent position was as Solutions Program Manager in Cisco's Corporate Quality organization where she designed and built a program to address customer quality issues.  Before joining Cisco in 1996, she worked for 8 years at Tandem Computers.  Madhu spent 6 months as a Cisco Leadership Fellow at Mercy Corps’ Financial Services Group in Kyrgyztan.   She led the evaluation, acquisition and deployment of software and network infrastructure for Mercy Corps’ rural women’s group micro-lending program.  From 2003 to 2005 she served as NetHope’s Finance Director.  Madhu is a Board member at Anudip Foundation.  From 2008 to 2009 she also served on the Board of UnityCare Group.  She received her Masters degree in Economics from University of Lucknow in India and an MBA from San Jose State University with focus on Finance.  In addition to the U.S., she has worked in India, Brussels, Canada, the UK and Kyrgyzstan.  Outside of work, Madhu enjoys theater, outdoor activities, and (obviously) travel!

Please join me in welcoming Madhu to TechSoup Global!

Over the last year the TechSoup Global Network has launched donations programme in several countries across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We have been working with a group of fantastic organizations in Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Their diverse background and unique experiences and knowledge has both allowed and greatly enhanced TechSoup Global Networks  presence in the region. We are very proud to be working with these organizations to help us grow the network and provide technology assistance to the ngo sector.

Whilst a number of you have met our CEE partners at the last Partner Summit in San Francisco, we wanted to take this opportunity to formally introduce and thank the group that has enabled us to grow our network presence in this region.

Hello Partners,
We wanted to make you aware of a change to the Microsoft donation program--read below for more details: 

eOpen (the online tool that allows participants of the Microsoft Software Donation programme to retrieve their software licenses) will transition to become the new website called the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) on December 6th. Per the eOpen website: https://eopen.microsoft.com/

Some of you have noticed a new TechSoup job posting recently:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/npo/1179003223.html

Wow!

 

http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1388023