Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.apps:5406 comp.sys.mac.misc:11116 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!milton!gwangung From: gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Just another theatre geek.....) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Getting Donations of Mac Apps for Non-Profit groups? Message-ID: <1991Apr19.164010.9911@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 19 Apr 91 16:40:10 GMT References: Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 27 In article chris@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) writes: >I'm doing some volunteer work for a non-profit organization, and they >desparately need some software; unfortunately, they have no money. > >Has anyone had any luck/experience getting donations of software (DBMS, >etc) from developers? Any chance of getting hardware? Varying.... Generally, the larger the company, the more well established the corporate giving program. Microsoft has a fuzzy giving program; they have given out copies of Word and Works. Aldus gives out Persuasion, PageMaker and FreeHand through the Gifts In Kind program, a United Way program based in Washington DC; handling fees are $25 (which gave rise to the slightly ridiculous procedure of a Seattle non-profit writing and waiting for a DC group to ship software from a Seattle software company.....) Helpful? -- ----- Roger Tang, gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu Middle-class weenie, art nerd and all-around evil nasty spermchucker