TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

Since its founding in 1987, TechSoup has increased civil society’s access to and effective use of digital technology, in keeping with our mission — **to build a dynamic bridge that leverages technology to enable connections and innovative solutions for a more equitable planet.** We are a global nonprofit social enterprise, founded in San Francisco, with offices in Warsaw, London, Medellin, Hong Kong, Nairobi, and Manila.

The TechSoup Global Network is a cross-border collaboration of over 50 local partners spanning six continents and working in 53 languages and dialects, dedicated to driving social change through our capacity-building programs. We are dedicated to serving civil society organizations (CSOs) through being proximate to their needs and unique environments.

TechSoup continues to evolve to respond to the changing needs of civil society and to equip the organizations we serve as they work to improve our world. We strive to help (CSOs) become tech-enabled, resilient, and efficient, reaching our mutual goal of better using technology to solve the world’s most pressing needs.

We are committed to supporting civil society in navigating this changing landscape and addressing the challenges and opportunities it presents. TechSoup is particularly focused on the needs of small, grassroots organizations around the world. These organizations are proximate to the issues and see the needs of their communities first. They also bridge the gap between large agencies and "the field," understand the diversity of their communities, and provide context, making aid received more relevant. Last year, 82 percent of organizations served by TechSoup had budgets under US $2M.

**With your donation, we can continue to serve our global community in these ways:**

- Assisting cohorts of CSOs in assessing the robustness of their tech stack and cybersecurity posture and assisting them in advancing their digital transformation
- Building CSO communication skills and technology to counter disinformation and shrinking spaces in civil society by creating positive narratives 
- Developing CSO media literacy and building skills in presenting positive narratives
- Developing CSO digital activism skills for mobilizing people
- Connecting with each other in communities of purpose and practice to share knowledge and digital skills
- Understanding the benefits and risks of AI and building CSO capability to use it in support of mission delivery

To learn more about our impact, we invite you to read our [2024 Year in Review](https://yearinreview.techsoup.org/).

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**Millions of school-aged children in the US rely on free or reduced-price meals during the academic year. Students can easily access these meals at more than 90,000 public schools across the country. But when schools close for the summer, the availability of meals and ease of access to them changes.** The USDA’s Summer Food Service Program offers free meals at over 35,000 sites nationwide during the summer months but, its impact is hampered by often outdated information that reaches families in need—with only an estimated 16% of food insecure youth accessing the program’s meal sites.

**The Solution**

Each summer, neighborhood meal sites close, change location, or have inconsistent open and closed times throughout the summer months. Managing those details and finding up-to-date, real-time meal site information can be difficult for families already experiencing vulnerability and limits the number of children who access this vital resource.

Range is a free mobile app that helps families and those who support them to easily find and share the up-to-date location of summer meal sites. It uses location-based technology, eliminating the need for addresses or zip codes, making it simple for anyone to find nearby sites.

Range was initially funded by a grant from Microsoft and built with the support of volunteer developers.

Over the years, Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup and the team behind Range, maintained and promoted the product, which was used and shared by thousands of school districts, PTAs, youth groups, and libraries. However, without dedicated funding or a monetized model associated with it, Caravan Studios could not upgrade Range to take advantage of newer technology or support more than ad hoc outreach efforts. For those reasons, they chose to retire the product in 2024. But the need for this resource and the community support for its approach still remain and will likely increase in years ahead.

Range has been downloaded thousands of times and used in all 50 states. Interviews report that many of those downloads were with people who connected families and young people with meals, thereby creating a larger vector of support. It has been instrumental in connecting vulnerable children with summer meal sites, helping to alleviate food insecurity during the summer months–connecting kids and their families nationwide with real-time, localized information on how and when to find summer meal sites.

**Our Call to Action**

Your investment in Range is an investment in the fight against childhood hunger. Join us in ensuring that every child has access to nutritious meals, regardless of whether school is in session.

We are seeking to raise a $750,000 endowment that will support Range in perpetuity. This endowment will enable us to:

- Ensure the long-term sustainability of Range, providing a vital lifeline for vulnerable children.
- Develop a new version of the app to take advantage of modern technology.
- Create regular reporting to help inform future investments in summer meal programs.



*Please note: TechSoup’s Board of Directors has the flexibility to direct the endowment distribution to other programs addressing hunger in future.*

Find Meals for School-Aged Youth 

Caravan Studios designed and operates the [Safe Shelter Collaborative](https://www.safesheltercollaborative.org/), a program that finds available and appropriate shelter for survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual assault. When shelter isn't available, support agencies use hotels for safe and secure alternative housing.

Your donation to the SafeNight Fund helps agencies across the U.S. place survivors in safe, appropriate, and urgently needed shelter. Your tax-deductible donation will only be distributed to verified agency members of the [Safe Shelter Collaborative.](http://www.safesheltercollaborative.org)

Caravan Studios is a division of [TechSoup](https://www.techsoup.org/?srsltid=AfmBOor5FSegAW_PaI6OvRXTwSBen1o8CTbJDGzgCI6F3TuMsXd73azy), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Find out more at [CaravanStudios.org](http://caravanstudios.org).

SafeNight Fund: Your Gift of Safety Helps Survivors

We collaborate with communities to design solutions that solve local problems, together. With our community-centered methodology, you don’t have to have technology skills to design how technology might solve a problem. Caravan Studios is a division of [TechSoup](https://www.techsoup.org/?srsltid=AfmBOor5FSegAW_PaI6OvRXTwSBen1o8CTbJDGzgCI6F3TuMsXd73azy), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Find out more at [CaravanStudios.org](http://caravanstudios.org). 

What our projects have focused on

- Finding shelter for survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual assault
- Finding where free food for youth is served during the summer months when school is out
- Engaging volunteers to complete timely tasks
- Design thinking activities that engage communities in dreaming up technology to solve problems they face
- Providing vulnerable migrant workers with information about their rights, connections to local resources, and anonymous reporting so they can reach people who can help them
- Finding emergency shelter for people who are unhoused

Where might you fit in? 

Funding these projects takes a village of community support. If you’d like to see more communities collaborating on solutions or you’re interested in our current work, please make a tax-deductible donation now. 

Learn more about us

[Caravanstudios.org](http://caravanstudios.org)

[Safesheltercollaborative.org](http://safesheltercollaborative.org)

[Safenightapp.org](http://safenightapp.org)

[Workerconnect.org](http://workerconnect.org)

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