Hello From Philadelphia!

Hi,

Just doing an introduction while I start exploring here. I'm the System Admin for YESPhilly, a non profit agency that assists out-of-school youth with returning to a healthy work and life environment. We recently were given the go ahead to open a 4 year school in the Philadelphia area. We will be focusing on media related programs as well as allowing these students to acquire their degrees. This said, although I've been on the tech repair side of things for many years, purchasing and pricing equipment and software is a new thing for me and I've found it to be a bit overwhelming. I'm hoping to learn the ropes here as well as be able to sustain the technical needs for a media arts school.

Does anyone have any advice?

-Lisa

Hi Lisa,

Welcome to TechSoup and glad that you are here. You are definitely in the right place for the kind of questions you have. Just browse around and you will find a lot of resources, both in our forums and in the learning center articles; as well as the discounted technology items in TechSoup Stock.

For the specific kinds of questions you mentioned, here are the forums that specifically focus on them:

For advice on purchasing and pricing equiptment,:  Hardware forum

For questions on software try the Software forum.

For specific question on donor management software or member database use the Technology for Fundraising forum

You can also just jump in where ever feels right and we will do our best to anwer you. We've got some great experts - both volunteer and on staff at TechSoup.

Best wishes,

Sasha 

Hi Lisa!

  Welcome to TechSoup! If you have any questions, feel free to call us in Customer Service between 8am - 5pm, Monday through Friday! Here are some resources on our website which may be helpful since you have just recently registered.

Our Restrictions Page - Here you can find the restrictions for all donation programs available which can not only help determine if your organization may be eligible for certain donation programs but provides information about the limits and guidelines for each program to help with your technology planning and donation requests: http://www.techsoup.org/stock/restrictions.asp

You may also want to have a glance at the How To Use TechSoup page for an overview of the different technology, information and community programs that TechSoup has to offer: http://www.techsoup.org/tools/howtousetechsoup/

And of course we also have our FAQ: http://www.techsoup.org/stock/faq.asp

Let us know if you have any questions!

Autumn