After launching a three-year Growth Capital Campaign to engage its community and fund its own strategic transformation, nonprofit social enterprise, TechSoup, was able to successfully conclude its campaign and raised just over $11.5 million relying on an integrated capital raising strategy—which included both donations and investments in debt securities. Nearly half of that capital was raised through a direct public offering (DPO) structure, relying upon the SEC’s Regulation A / Tier II exemption, and the remaining capital was raised through a combination of sources, including a direct loan, recoverable grants , and individual donations.
This session will focus on lessons learned from this integrated capital raising strategy and TechSoup’s goal of engaging its diverse community of stakeholders. The panel will also share what’s next for the TechSoup Global Network which supports more than 1.44 million organizations globally. Delivered as a fireside chat, it follows up to the April 2022 Stanford Social Innovation Review article How a Nonprofit Raised Growth Capital from Public Markets: .
