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BT Community Connections Awards
Is your organisation currently looking for IT equipment or wanting to get online? If so, you can apply for a BT Community Connections Award.
The scheme enables community and charitable organisations to get online - groups can apply for a laptop and a year’s free broadband connection. Award packages will be given to groups who can demonstrate how an award will benefit their work and the local community.
Visit www.btcommunityconnections.com by 7 January 2010.
Sourced from NCVO's ICT newsletter October 2009
Sources of Funding for ICT Projects
An article written by Colin Harrison - the Yorkshire & Humber Regional ICT Champion for the Voluntary Sector.
A free smart website for all third sector organisations, including community groups, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.
Sources
of Funders Research
(Jan 2007, updated March 2008)
Free download. This research has sourced and increased the original list of funders that fund ICT. Also included are appendices, including a spreadsheet of the full list of funders, a more in-depth background about these funders and a funding checklist.
(Published: 4th May 2005 Reviewed: 1st June 2009)
Article from Lasa's knowledgebase: "Whilst there are a number of trusts and grant funders who look favourably on applications for ICT within a project application, a limited number of funders will specifically fund ICT. Some of these are described in this article."
The ICT Hub has just published the How to Cost and Fund ICT guide. It’s a practical guide and workbook which will help you plan ICT initiatives and make the most of your ICT funding applications, particularly explaining costs and benefits more successfully to funders. Available via NCVO's website.
Cheap/discounted software links
As much as 95% off!
and includes major providers such as Microsoft
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| Citnexus is an authorised educational reseller for Microsoft, Adobe, Quark plus many more. We can supply student discount software at up to 90% off retail prices. Citnexus has one of the widest ranges of student software available. Academic discount software/teacher discount software is available to teachers and lecturers. Also available is a wide range of charity discount software, and discount software for Churches. | |
| NCVO | "NCVO has an agreement with Microsoft whereby NCVO members can purchase products under a special pricing scheme known as a Select Agreement. NCVO members can purchase any Microsoft software product at discounts of up to 80%." |
| Charity Logistics | Cheap Microsoft software and other services to its members - and membership is free for charities and most not for profit organisations. |
| Microsoft discounts | Information about getting discounts on Microsoft products for non-profit and some related commercial organisations. |
| Microsoft software donation | Information about getting limited donations of software from Microsoft for the voluntary sector. Quote from the web site: “We are able to donate up to three pieces of software and we have the following software titles available: Microsoft® Office 2003, Microsoft® Office Professional 2003, Microsoft® FrontPage® 2003, Microsoft® Publisher 2003,Microsoft ® AutoRoute® Europe 2004, Microsoft ® Project 2003, Microsoft ® Encarta® Reference Library 2005, Microsoft ® Picture It! Premium 9, Microsoft ® Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Microsoft ® MapPoint 2004, Microsoft® PowerPoint 2002, Office Mac 10.0, Office Mac 2001, Microsoft® Visio 2003 and Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition. Please note we donate fully retail packaged products which comes with one End User License Agreement allowing the user to install on one PC only; the software we donate is not for multiple use." |
| CTX - Charity Technology Exchange | This programme enables eligible charities to gain access to donated technology products. Choose from over 80 products from companies such as Microsoft, Symantec and Cisco. |
| Phoenix Software | We have some great partnerships across the
UK: NCVO – National Council for Voluntary Organisations SCVO – Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations NICVA - Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action Working with these bodies and primary suppliers such as Microsoft, Symantec, Sophos and Corel, we have slashed the cost of software acquisition for the voluntary sector. |
| Pugh Computers | Pugh Computers Ltd supply a wide range of computer software to Educational and Voluntary bodies from most of the major software manufacturers. |
| Academia | Educational Software for Schools, Colleges, universities & Charities. |
