Founded in 1987 as CompuMentor, TechSoup is one of the most comprehensive nonprofit technology assistance providers in the world, employing a staff of 150 and deploying a budget of over $18 million. It conducts a range of major programs aimed at building the ICT capacity of NGOs around the world.

Its trusted nonprofit technology Web site (www.techsoup.org) offers NGO technology know-how, advice, and community forums to more than 400,000 unique monthly visitors.

TechSoup also distributes donated and discounted technology products from over 25 leading providers such as Cisco, Intuit and Microsoft for a small administrative fee. These products are available to NGOs in the U.S. and Canada through TechSoup's TechSoup Stock service (www.techsoup.org/stock). In other countries, the program is administered through TechSoup Global, a broad network of international partner nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), which manage global technology product donation programs for Cisco Systems and Microsoft. TechSoup Global currently spans Europe, Africa, Australia, and now India. The program is expected to serve about 25 countries in Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, and distribute product donations with a fair market value of $55 million in the countries outside the U.S. in Fiscal Year 2008.

NASSCOM Foundation is the local partner of the TechSoup Stock donations program in India; and forms part of the global TechSoup Technology Donation Program, through which a group of corporate donors provide technology product donations to charitable nonprofit and nongovernmental organisations around the world.