TechSoup

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when that grant ran out, and we got those through very large organizations like TechSoup and, and large companies that help property, uh, that help, um, nonprofits.

They, they-

And for those overseas, a nonprofit's something in America like a charity.

Has real-time transcription, automatic summaries, action items generated the moment that your meeting ends, and it'll join your Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams automatically once it's connected to your calendar.

The free plan gives you 300 minutes a month, which covers a handful of meetings, and Otter offers a meaningful discount through TechSoup if you need more.

If your team is on Microsoft 365 already, Teams Copilot is the larger organization alternative worth knowing about, though it comes at a steeper price.

For workflow automation, connecting the tools that you already use so information moves between them without someone that has to manually copy and paste, take a look at Zapier with AI is worth a look once you've mapped out where your actual handoffs are breaking down.

You see the little icon, you know, when you're in Word or Excel or wherever it is, and that's allowed.

So if you are in the Microsoft camp, Copilot camp, there is a great case study that TechSoup did.

I will share all these resources in the show notes.

I'm using Copilot to draft emails, transcribe meetings, and do funding applications, you know, kind of feed into the application.

Do you have any examples of like a tech company that's going a little bit deeper than that? Yeah.

Yeah, I think, and this isn't so much a for-profit, but they do serve the nonprofit space, is TechSoup and TechImpact have come together and they've partnered to create a virtual chief technology officer program.

That's CTO.

And what isn't... particularly interesting is not just the service, but it's the model by which they're doing this.

It's simply just not financially viable for them.

So instead of...

Asking nonprofits to build that expertise internally, what TechSoup and Tech Impact have done is really created this fractional executive model, buying that incredible expertise and that experience that allows them to do more.

So organizations as part of this program receive a technology assessment to really understand what does their IT maturity look like right now? How does this line up to strategic planning? What kind of guidance can we give that organization around cybersecurity and managing those complex risks? What sort of advice can we give them about budgeting and making sure that there are ways in which we can scaffold the budgets in order to meet the needs? provide that ongoing expert consultation about how you can get more out of your technology, and then build that technology roadmap so that you can add your capacity over time and be able to scaffold the various activities in a way that is going to meet your mission now and grow with you over time.

Right.

Well, I would imagine that it will be available through TechSoup, which is basically, you know, you can get a year of plus for the price of a month and a year of advance for the price of a month.

And so if that same pricing structure works, then that's going to be enormous for Intuit and a huge gift

to the industry.