Microsoft to provide €10 million in-kind support in Ireland
Howard Lake | 15 April 2016 | News
Microsoft in Ireland has announced that it will donate more than €10 million in technology support to charities and non-profit organisations over the next two years.
The support from Microsoft, which has nearly 2,000 employees in Ireland, is part of a three-year scheme announced earlier this year that will see Microsoft Philanthropies donate $1 billion of Microsoft Cloud Services to serve non-profits and university researchers over the next three years, according to the Irish Times.
Microsoft Ireland says it has already donated €8 million in support to groups, with ISPCC, Enable Ireland, Concern, Jack & Jill and Irish Water Safety all benefitting from the support.
Last year, we donated €8M in cloud software and technology to non-profits in Ireland. https://t.co/n4g5bao2q4 pic.twitter.com/EFz3f8Wkgq
— Microsoft Ireland (@Microsoftirl) April 14, 2016
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“We recognise that charities are playing a pivotal role in supporting and helping some of the most vulnerable people in society. Technology is, in many ways, a charity’s ideal partner – allowing the organisation to run services in previously unimaginable ways and enabling them to do more with limited resources,”
said Orla Hogan, Head of Philanthropy and Corporate Communications, Microsoft Ireland.
The initiative is intended to help the groups use technology to transform the way they deliver their services.
Microsoft Ireland held a Tech4Good event at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin this week to highlight how charities and non-profits can use technology effectively.
A packed room today to kick off #Tech4GoodIrl; non-profits learn how they can access €10M in software technology. pic.twitter.com/6UgGtKS8h9
— Microsoft Ireland (@Microsoftirl) April 14, 2016
Over the next two years, we will donate €10M in cloud software & technology to non-profits in Ireland #Tech4GoodIrl pic.twitter.com/7g8AjnrjqJ
— Microsoft Ireland (@Microsoftirl) April 14, 2016
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.