 Hi there. My name is Eli. I'm a community manager with TechSoup, which means I get to support this global network of technology for good meetups that are in countries around the world. And today we're here for the Nigeria event. So this TechSoup Connect thing is a program of TechSoup that sort of gives people the ability to host their own events and build community to help people in NGOs use technology more effectively. And so what is TechSoup? You ask TechSoup is a nonprofit like yourself that helps connect organizations with free and discounted technology and software from some of the major technology companies in the world. And TechSoup has a main office in San Francisco, but I'm not based there. I'm actually based in Canada and Vancouver. And TechSoup has partnered with organizations around the world to deliver that TechSoup service. So in Nigeria, our representative is the East Waxi, the West Africa Civil Society Institute. They have historically been centered out of Ghana, but are actually, I believe this in the next month or two, starting up their own office in Nigeria. So there will be an on the ground Nigeria office too. And as that gets launched, we'll share more information about that. So TechSoup, as I said, is a place for nonprofits go to find and get access to technology solutions and services. And we do that by partnering with major companies like Microsoft, the Tableau and Google and Zoom, the thing we're using right now to open up this, these donation programs. And so TechSoup is actually this big global organization with a really powerful reach. We've served over one million nonprofits, saving the sector at this point around $11 billion in market value. And I actually think that is under dates now closer to $16 billion. And you can see, find TechSoup basically in every country and territory in the world. And so that's where you can find TechSoup. The answer is everywhere, but you're curious. So TechSoup offers discounted and donated product. What's that really mean? How does that work? I'll be honest, when I first heard about TechSoup, I'm like, that's got to be a scam. That can't be true. It seems a little bit too good to be true. So here's how it worked. So this is what it used to be like before I discovered TechSoup, which is there are all these companies out there who were sometimes interested in making grants or donations to NGOs. But it wasn't really scaling. If you knew someone at Adobe, like I did, you might be able to call up your friend and say, hey, could you give me a license to this product? Help me out here. But frankly, if you didn't know anyone and I know anyone on Microsoft or Cisco or QuickBooks, you really weren't going to get access to any discounted software. You basically had to have a direct personal relationship. And so therefore, not that many nonprofits were getting access to the technology. And so TechSoup said, there's a problem here and we can fix it. And what they said is, what if we basically created a validation engine? What if we said, what if you wrote one grant application basically to TechSoup saying, here's the organization I am. Here's my eligibility, my budget, the focus area I have. And then we would basically say, OK, great, we approved your nonprofit. And then we could use that exact same like verification for any of the software companies in our catalog. And so that's really what TechSoup does now is you come, you create your free TechSoup account, you do it once. And once you've done that and approved your valid nonprofit, then you get instant verification of any of your requests for the discounts and donations from the partners in our catalog. So basically, we have allowed these organizations to scale. So we're serving now, as you see, like over a million nonprofits because we just made it so easy for everyone because they didn't have to go through the paperwork every single time you made a request. And so how do you get into this TechSoup world? The answer is you got to create your free account. And so you go to TechSoup.global, select in your case Nigeria, but there's a selector there for any country. And in there, if you are a nonprofit, charity church or library, you can register. The registration process is free. And all you need to really complete that registration is you need to upload some form of government documentation. Basically saying, yes, I'm approved in my state or in my country and have that kind of documentation there. So if you are an informal organization just a club without any legal status, unfortunately, you won't be eligible for TechSoup. And on the website, you'll see the specific qualifications that are needed for Nigerian organizations. So eligibility is also important that you put things in as part of your application because every one of the donor partners has a slightly different eligibility criteria. Some people would say we're only going to give product to non-profit that are smaller than one million dollars in budget, which is 90 percent of the organizations in the TechSoup catalog. Or maybe they're only working with organizations that work with youth. And again, when you create your account, you'll put in the categories of work that you put in. And usually it's going to take about two weeks from you to go from your initial application to approval. So that's the process you would take it through. And when we look through our catalog and do some running and some calculations, the typical organization is actually saving about $70,000 over their lifetime, which is about 10 years with TechSoup. So the savings can add up to be quite remarkable. And that's of course money that you as an organization are keeping in your own pockets to deliver on the core mission, but you're not the technology organization. You're a mission delivery organization. And there's other great resources at TechSoup. So we have free webinars, actually things like this developed by and run by the community. There's also a blog and how to articles. And there are also some courses. And then of course, there are events like this, which are the volunteer run TechSoup Connect events, which are in more than 30 cities and states across the world. And it's a place for you to connect to people in your time zone, in your language, learning context specific use of how NGOs, just like your own, are using technology. And so that's the quick overview of TechSoup. I can show you quickly the website just to show you where you can go to answer some of your core questions. So in this case, let's go look at the Nigeria example. So we go to the TechSoup.global website. And then from there, you'd say, what's your country? And you're going to say, I'm in Nigeria. There we go. Boom. Click Go. And you'll be forwarded then to your specific country version of TechSoup. And there's a different version for every country because the products and the legal definitions are a little bit different in every country. So this is the core navigation of the site. As I'll see along the top, we've got the catalog, which is a product offerings. You can also go and look at this by donors. You'll say, OK, what are the companies that are actually being like donating? So you'll see it's everything from Slack or Zoom or Asana or Amazon or Microsoft or Google. So you can also filter this out by what country's product you're looking for. There's also in the blog with posts about how you can use technology in your nonprofit. But I think where a lot of people are going to want to start is obviously at the sign up button. And so you just pop in there and this is where you start creating your free account. And so you would start with creating a personal account. So you put in your first name, your last name, your organization's email address. If you have an email address, you might not match OK. And then once you do that, then they're going to start asking you for some of the core paperwork to prove that you're a nonprofit. And so what do you actually need in Nigeria? If you go into the help section, you'll see there's an eligibility criteria section. And so this is going to give you the specific definition of who is eligible in Nigeria. And so you'll see that here. Here is who is actually currently valid. And so your organization basically must be listed under the fifth schedule of the company's income tax act or defined by this other one from the Federal Inland Revenue Service to receive tax deductible donations. So those are the core piece of eligibility you need to worry about in Nigeria. If you fit any of those criteria, then you're welcome to come in and create your textbook account to request product. If you're not eligible, you may not get access to the catalog, but it doesn't mean there's nothing from TechSoup. We are still, of course, welcome to join us at any of the events in our online courses, read the blog post, because we know there are organizations working in civil society who are doing great work, but may not meet the current legal definitions. And know that those legal definitions are changing and evolving as things change both in countries and as we convince our partners to open up the eligibility to the kinds of organizations that can get involved. So as an example, we didn't always have an offering for libraries, but over time, we were able to add libraries as one of the categories that we were able to serve. And similarly, with churches used to be ineligible, but now we've expanded it that many churches are eligible for the TechSoup donation program, again, depending on the country and the work they're specifically doing. And the last thing you should know about the catalog is it works in two different ways. So you'll see some of these things have an admin fee on them. And so what that means is basically to open up the access to the free or the discounted program, you're going to pay an admin fee that goes to TechSoups. We've been basically filling up like an online shopping cart and that covers our cost of providing reporting and doing the eligibility validation. And so that's how it works. So sometimes there will be a small fee usually worth about 10 percent of the product cost, and that will be listed here on on the TechSoup website. And so you would request it there, but other things are not. So you will see that they have zero admin fees. So Asana is a good example. And so what really happens here is the actual account creation, all that request is actually happening on the company's website. And what happens is as you create your account with that website and ask for the nonprofit version, they will say, if you're a nonprofit, who your nonprofit and what they'll do is a query via an API or via a ticket to TechSoup and say, does this organization already exist? So a good example of this, people run into all the time is something like Slack or Google. So if you go to the Google for nonprofits program, so what's happening here is there are the Google for nonprofit program and you're going to create and get started and do all your eligibility here on on this site. But at some point it's going to say, prove that you're a nonprofit, put in your TechSoup token. And so when that happens, you'll actually go back to your website with TechSoup, your account with TechSoup, copy over a random token that basically proves that you're a nonprofit in your country. And then you'll come back to the Google site and finish your application. And so what that really says is it's always worth starting to create your free TechSoup account now. It's even if you're not quite ready to apply for these other products because one, it's going to take a couple of weeks until you're going to need it for other programs as well, like the Google for nonprofits program or for the Microsoft nonprofit program as well. This is another place where you would make your application on their website. There it is. So you go to the Microsoft website, apply to get the 10 licenses free for for the Microsoft desktop suite. But at some point they're going to need you to be a valid TechSoup number. So if you aren't already, you'll need to have gone and create that process before you can complete it there. So these are cases where we're not going to charge you as a nonprofit, any administration fee that fee is actually covered by the company. And so this is why sometimes a TechSoup delivered product will come due with a small admin fee. Other times the company itself will cover it and maybe manage the whole process on their own website. But you'll still in either case need that TechSoup account to basically prove that you are a nonprofit in your country. So that's my quick overview of TechSoup. And what do you need to know about it in Nigeria? I'm going to pass it over to the actual chapter host, Adilmi. Thank you very much, Eli. I'm really excited to have this session. And it's been a pleasure. It's been an honor working with TechSoup, trying to see how we can contribute to what people are doing to make the world a better place because absolutely with technology, we can do so much. We can do a lot and especially the advertising grants. People need to see and know what we are doing. So without these tools, we will not be effective enough. And that is why opportunities like this come up and we try to share what we know. So in this particular edition of today's talk, I hope you guys don't mind. I'm having to use my smartphone and it's one of the most accessible tools one can use for Canva design. So I'm going to share how you can use your smartphone to run Canva designs for your publicity because for every work you need to do, you must have a good brand. You must have good graphics, good pictures. And I will show you how to be able to share your graphics online without having to waste time. Canva makes it easy for you to use different templates to make your design and also to be able to share to different platforms. It's actually very tedious having to share one design on different platforms. So what I'm going to show you is how you can make that easy and fast. So I'm going to share my screen and are perfect. You can see my screen to access Canva. You visit www.canva.com. So with this, you are able to access the platform so you can see, try from the search platform, try Poster, logo, anything can sign up here, actually for free. And I will log in with my account. Yeah, and this is actually a great opportunity to also tell people where you log in. That is actually a Canva for non-profit program. It's actually not tied to TechSoup, but it's very similar in its structure. And what they do is they offer 10 free licenses to non-profits to basically their platform, which allows you to use like some of the additional paid graphics, upload your own fonts, use your own color scheme, and you can use that for 10 licenses across your organizations. Yes, perfect. You can see here Canva for non-profit, this Canva for Canva teams. Now there's an option here where if you are an educational organization or a non-profit, you can enjoy the Canva app for free. Now, let me pick the option of educational organization so that you can see the interface. Now you could see inspiring teachers and engaging students. It's actually free for educational providers. Now, teachers can get verified course. You can contact, let's click on teachers get verified. So I am not a teacher and I might have an account with them, but it's almost the same procedure, which you are going to sign up with your any of your login platforms here from Particles. Once you're able to do that and you get verified, you'll be you gain access to the platform. So today I want to share with you. I want to share with you what you can do on Canva. So just a second. Perfect. OK, if you're following my time, I use Canva. I've done over a thousand five hundred designs on Canva. I started using Canva since 2015. And late last year, Canva sent me a certificate to notify me of my eight hundred design. So once you've made designs up to eight hundred, they are going to send you a certificate. So Canva makes it easy for me to do anything I wish to. Now, I believe if you can see my screen, please notify me. Know that everyone is following. So you can use Canva for. So you have a whiteboard designs. If you are planning for strategy, if you are strategizing for your business, for your NGO, you can use the whiteboard design to create a mind map of what you are doing. So if you are doing Instagram promotions, it's very easy for you to pick up stories, see Instagram posts, logos, my phone wallpaper. You can use this to create phone wallpaper to solicit for donations. If someone gets to purchase your or donate to your organization, you can use send a phone wallpaper as a certificate to the person. You can create memories using phone for topologies. You can do your full style. You can even create mobile videos. You can do Facebook covers, invitation, menu, your business card to maintain. I do save you time and money. Invitation and cards, late eyes, so many things, lots of things. So how can you? Let me show you some of the project I have done with Canva. So here are my most recent designs. I even have my CV. Here, let me share with you this particular LinkedIn art. OK, perfect. So this is the graphics I did for one of my articles on LinkedIn. I have three. Now you could see it's beautiful, very beautiful and easy to design. I picked a template and all I needed to do was to change it with respect to what I was doing. Now here is the second one, which is very beautiful. And here is the third one, very beautiful. I use it to create so many things. I'm going to show you a logo that I did with Canva. It's an NGO. OK, let me share. Perfect. So if you can see my screen, you would see the logo. This logo is for an NGO. Recently, I designed for just a few days ago, I designed a logo for the NGO. So it's very easy for you to run any kind of design. So today I'm going to I'm going to run a very simple design for TechSoup, like a flower for TechSoup. So right here on the platform on this side, and the beautiful thing is that you can actually access this platform as an app or a website or on your on your on your laptop, your desktop, on any platform. So what I would do is to search for Maya. You can type anything you want. Poster, you could see the search results here. We have business flyers, full flyer, real estate flyer. And if I want, just check out everything you can have. All of the designs there. Please, if you can still see my screen, let me know if you can hear me. Let me know. So we have all the flyers here. Different styles. So I want to do something for TechSoup, right? So I say, let me pick something I can use to promote my business or TechSoup. Yeah. Looking for something. Looking for something. Let's say, large sale. Yeah, perfect. All right. So let's say this is what I want to do. I want to create promotion. First, you click if you click the body of the design, you can easily change the color down here is a menu, the design menu where you can pick the item and change the color. If I want to change the color, I can change it to blue. Yeah. So you pick the item again. Any item you pick and you want to change the color you pick. And then you would see they can change it to white. And here with this option, you can easily change it, change all the colors to that particular color instead of trying to do it one after the other. Then you pick your or later. And then you can change it to whatever you want. Using your smartphone, you can increase the size. Yeah, you can increase the size to whatever you wish. So how do you add? How do you change the background? How do you add that thing? So with this button, orange button, you can choose to add. You can even change the template if you don't like it. If you don't like it, if you prefer another template, you could see different models, different designs. So we can choose to change this. And this is the option you would have replace current change current page. You could see changes to another color. And then you can say, you can put anything you want. If you're doing your fundraising for, for doing your fundraising, you can use it, for instance. Yeah, let's say you're doing your fundraising. You can choose to say join us at our fundraising dinner. And you use it. Once you click on any of the items, you can easily move them. You can easily move them and you can change it to whatever you want. Here with this button, you can add uploads. Now you would see some files that I've uploaded already. Yeah, a lot of files that I've uploaded already. So if you have your logo that you've already designed, you can easily pick from here. Yes, this is sex and joint chapter. Perfect. And you can control it, reduce the size and place it wherever you want. Now, on the top button, on the top bar, you will see the home icon and some arrows, which you can use to return or edit your changes. So for you to pick an option, an object, you click on it and you move it. Right. So with that, you can change the background to whatever color that you like, could be black, could be yellow, could be, could still maintain the colors. You can have your coffee brown, can change it to whatever colors. With this button, you can add text, whatever kind of text you want to add, the glowy text, any kind of with a combination of fonts. For these are stuff photos that we already have here. So you can choose to pick this depending on your design, what you're trying to do, or better, see if you can search for it. Let's say you're looking for dinner. So we have the three options and the prohibition, which you must have paid for while subscribing. So you click on this, yes. And then you move it to the slide, to the box, and then it joins. So we have our fundraising dinner flower, which is ready. This and many more are what you can do with your convert. I will show you how to, I will show you how to share the design and how to download the design. So let's pick the design we've done. And let's say we want, we are OK. Now you've seen this icon that looks like an arrow pointing upwards. You click on it. Here you can download, you can share the link, you can even email the design. You can even run your presentations here. You can send it as a QR code. You can share it to your Facebook page. You can share it to your Twitter. You can send it to a folder. So let's say you want to share to Twitter. Already I've linked my Twitter accounts. So if you didn't have your account connected, you can easily account by creating a new account. Then you type in whatever you want to type. Let's say we are inviting you for our dinner, fundraising dinner, fundraising dinner. Come and have fun and you have your icon here. So once you click publish, it will go straight up with it to go straight up to your Twitter account. With the picture, with these particular graphics, if you click on it, you can download. Right. So you choose the file type you want PDF. Jeff, but it's suggested format is actually PNG. You can download it and there you would have your design. So whatever designs you want to put up, you can have it here, right, with with Canva. You have if you come here up here, social media. So if you're looking for a perfect fit for your social media, Instagram and Facebook, if you want to run presentations, right. You have your presentation here, your different format of presentations here, brainstorm presentation if you want to do your video. You can have a Facebook video, a marketing video, whatever kind of video you can easily create it here. With marketing, you can create your online art, your print art, the format, the size, right. So whatever you take to the printer from here gives you the right size and you won't have to have to change so much. There's a lot you can do, infographic, desktop wallpaper, book cover, a mind map. Magazine cover, even your Zoom virtual background, you can have your calendar, post-style report, everything you click on reports, search on reports, you would see so much. So you can have your annual reports, you can have your company profile, there's a space for proposal design. So your monthly report, your marketing report, impact report. This is very important for NGOs, your impact reports. How have you been able to make an impact as an NGO? You measure yourself from time to time. So I'm picking up, I'm picking the impact report and I want to show you how it looks like, right. So this is just an introductory class, like an overview for you to appreciate what this platform can do. So you have your impact report, any image you find that is with a watermark means that it's not free. So with here you are at the top, the down the right corner, you see numbers like pages. So if you click on it, you would find the different pages. Yeah. And as you swipe, you're seeing it. So it's very perfect. Yeah, our service so far, our mission. Let me read an impact report is a way for organizations to communicate the issues they are trying to improve as well as their strategy. So you can see all of these 2019 goals. This is something you should learn how to do, how to write and impact reports. Right. Look at this. It's very beautiful. Right. This is something it's very necessary. You can that's the last page. So with that, you can be able to appreciate several documents you can produce on. So with that, I would love to stop share and let. OK, I think I'm seeing a question here. OK, so we have Mrs. Mrs. said is experiencing network issues. So basically that is what I have to share about the designing. But if you're interested in having a one on one lesson outside these, I'll be glad to share with you what to do and how we can go about it. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for explaining. All right. Thank you very much. Perfect. Whatever questions you have, I'm really I'm available to support you on design journey and see your theme on the design. So I want to thank you all for what they've said so far. Yes. So. Yeah. I've learned about the organization. Oh, the network is very. OK, so perfect. That's the end for today.