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title: "Technology Discounts & Grants: A Guide for NWA Nonprofits"
description: Are you a nonprofit trying to get a handle on your IT and technology? Start here. With this free guide to tech discounts and grants for NWA nonprofits.
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# [Technology Discounts & Grants: A Guide for NWA Nonprofits](https://tektrendz.com/the-tektrendz-blog/technology-discount-grant-guide-for-northwest-arkansas-nonprofits)

 Written by [Rob Brothers](https://tektrendz.com/the-tektrendz-blog/author/rob-brothers) | Sep 23, 2026, 4:19:47 PM

I was honored recently to be interviewed at [Pixels With Purpose](https://tektrendz.com/pixelswithpurpose), a forum designed to help Northwest Arkansas's nonprofits thrive in today's hyper-digital world. The event brought together over 40 NWA nonprofit leaders with local experts in tech, cybersecurity, digital marketing, AI, and more — all to help local nonprofits advance their causes amid the rapid digitalization happening now.  

My Q&A, titled "Managing Nonprofit Technology When It's Not Your Day Job," gave me a chance to share some of the tips, tricks, and tactics I've collected over two decades [serving area nonprofits with their IT and cybersecurity needs](https://tektrendz.com/managed-it-services-for-nonprofits-northwest-arkansas). 

The truth is: Nonprofit leaders are passionate about their missions — feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, supporting veterans. They're rarely passionate, though, about managing technology. And I get it; I can understand why. For nonprofit leaders, IT and cybersecurity often feel like necessary evils that come with the territory of leading a nonprofit and serving a community.

As we've written elsewhere, many nonprofits — given their noble, sometimes urgent focus on the mission at-hand— [commonly make avoidable mistakes](https://tektrendz.com/the-tektrendz-blog/common-it-mistakes-arkansas-nonprofits-make-and-how-to-avoid-them) with their IT, including [not properly securing the org from cyberattack](https://tektrendz.com/the-tektrendz-blog/protecting-the-mission-a-cybersecurity-guide-for-arkansas-nonprofits).    

These nonprofits, we find, *could* take simple steps to better streamline and secure their technology. 

## Nonprofits Can Take Simple Steps With Their Tech, Cybersecurity

So, it was my aim at Pixels With Purpose to reduce — if only just a little — the burden NWA's nonprofits associate with IT, technology, and cybersecurity. To give them some easy wins, if you will, with their tech and cyber defenses. Easy wins like:

- Turn on MFA everywhere, as it stops 90%+ of identity attacks (and it's free)
- Standardize onboarding/offboarding with a simple checklist
- Test data backups once a year 

But as important as this advice was, I must admit I was most eager to talk about another point altogether...

"Stop paying retail," I told the audience, "for your software," because many of today's leading SaaS/digital platforms offer grants and steep discounts to recognized 501(c)(3)s — on everything from office productivity suites to payment processing to graphic design.

## Free Resource: A Guide to Technology Discounts & Grants for NWA Nonprofits

Your budget is too limited, and your work too important, to needlessly spend even one extra dollar on technology.

So, TekTrendz prepared a free one-page resource, the "Tech Discount & Grant Guide for NWA Nonprofits," to help our local nonprofits save money on tech — and to put those dollars to better use serving our community.

Click below for a PDF version of this free guide. 

<https://tektrendz.com/hubfs/Nonprofit%20Tech%20Guide.pdf>

As you'll see, the guide contains discounts and grants to several popular subscriptions among nonprofits today, including:

- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace and Google Ads
- Canva
- Stripe
- Monday.com

Our encouragement: Start by getting verified with both TechSoup and Goodstack. This will simplify the process of receiving your well-deserved discounts and grants.

## Got Questions, NWA Nonprofit? We're Here to Help

Often, nonprofits would rather think about their life-giving, community-building cause than about technology.

So, if you have questions about your IT, technology, or cybersecurity.

- If you need help getting verified with TechSoup or Goodstack
- If you're looking for additional ways to save money on your technology
- If you're concerned about your org's exposure to cyberattacks

TekTrendz is here to help. We're here with free, friendly answers to your tech and cybersecurity questions. 

*And thank you all you do to make Northwest Arkansas the wonderful community it is.*

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