About

NPower's Strategy

• Reach more nonprofits

  • Create affordable, high impact services and solutions
  • Serve new markets
  • Collaborate, innovate, advocate

• Engage corporate IT leaders

  • Match nonprofits to skilled IT volunteers
  • Involve CIO Councils to effect social change through IT
  • Develop and create opportunities for a diverse Information Technology workforce

NPower is a network of locally based not for profit organizations that provide comprehensive, high-quality and affordable technology assistance to other nonprofit groups nationally. Founded in 1999, NPower currently serves more than 4,000 organizations each year.

At NPower, we connect non-profits to technology so that they can discover powerful new ways of serving their clients and communities. We've proven time and again that almost any nonprofit can leverage the power of IT to achieve transformative rewards.

At the same time, we understand that technology alone doesn't change the world — people do. That's why we base all our services in a friendly, flexible approach that delivers powerful IT solutions you can call your own.

History

The first NPower opened its doors in Seattle in 1999, providing hands-on technology assistance — from classroom training to strategic technology planning to web site and database development — to nonprofit organizations in the Puget Sound. In response to the need for similar services in other communities, NPower Seattle partnered with Microsoft Corporation in 2000 to develop other NPower programs around the country — and the NPower Network was born.