Adobe

Adobe and TechSoup Global are pleased to announce the 2010 Adobe Show Your Impact Design Contest for libraries and nonprofits using donated Adobe software. Submit a piece of work created with Adobe products that demonstrates how your library addresses issues that impact the communities you serve. You could win a $1,000 grant and Adobe products.

If so, check out the Adobe Special Donation Program. Thanks to Adobe, we've been able to lower the admin fees by approximately 50 percent on the following products:

• CS Design Premium 3.3 Mac (Retail value $1799): Admin fee was $136, now $69

• CS Design Standard 3.3 Mac (Retail value $1199): Admin fee was $92, now $45

• Photoshop CS 3.0 Mac (Retail value $649): Admin fee was $51, now $25

• Photoshop Extended CS 3.0 Mac (Retail value $999): Admin fee was $76, now $38

TechSoup has two new and exciting updates to Adobe donations that affect libraries and (c)(3) friends of libraries:

First, the regular Adobe donation program through TechSoup has just opened up their eligibility to include 501(c)(3) friends of libraries. The change is subtle on the surface and none of the language on the Adobe restrictions and eligibility info has changed, however, if you work for or with a 501(c)(3) friend of a library, you are now (likely) eligible to request the newest, hottest Adobe donated products through TechSoup.

Second, TechSoup has a limited-stock, limited-time-only special donation program with Adobe. The products available are largely for Mac users and they are still brand new products, however, they are not the latest version.