Non Profit licenses?

[eWaste Direct]

Hello my tribe. I have been out of the loop on Microsoft and their licensing program for Windows. Are they still offering them, and if so is there still a discount rate for Non Profit companies?

Thanks!

[Lonnie Henley]

Joe,

Yes, the Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher (MAR) program provides "Citizenship" licenses at a reduced cost for non-profits, educational institutions, etc. You have to sign up as a Third Party Refurbisher under a MAR, which are all large commercial refurbishers. 

Good luck.

Lonnie Henley

Refurbishing Lead

Computer CORE, Alexandria VA

www.computercore.org

lon...@computercore.org

[eWaste Direct]

Thanks, Lonnie! Is there a way for non-profits to contact a MAR to purchase the licenses?

I am trying to provide them with affordable laptops that are ready to install the OS. They would just need the OS (hopefully at the MAR discount price) to install for their students.

Do I understand that correctly?

Thanks

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[lonnie...@gmail.com]

Joe,

 

All Microsoft Authorized Refurbishers (MARs) are supposed to support Third Party Refurbishers (TPRs) like us, whether non-profits or small commercial operations.

• The MAR we deal with is Blair Technologies Group; their point of contact for TPRs is Danny Niesen, da...@blairtg.com, 859-727-4300 Ext. 962.
• When we were shopping for a MAR “parent” a couple of years ago, we also talked to Joy Systems, https://joysystemspc.com/, and they were very helpful. Our contact there was Dan Grabon, d...@joysystems.com, ph. 732-328-8566, but that was 2021 so I don’t know if that’s still a valid contact. We reached him by just posting a question to the Joy Systems contact page and he got back to us.
• We’ve come across a lot of machines refurbished by PCs for People, https://www.pcsforpeople.org/, which seems to be oriented toward not-for-profit endeavors, but I don’t have a contact there.
• We had brief contact in 2021 with Sage Sustainable Electronics, https://www.sagese.com/, but they were just setting up their TPR program at the time and weren’t ready to talk to us. Amanda Deaton, amanda...@sagese.com, (614) 697-4090.
• You can find a complete list of MARs at https://devicepartner.microsoft.com/en-us/assets/detail/mar_partner_directory_aug2017-pdf. (The list there is up to date despite the aug2017 in the URL.) That shows 14 MARs in the United States, a half dozen in Canada, etc.

 

The general drill is to demonstrate that you qualify, in terms of both your not-for-profit or educational status and your ability to adhere to Microsoft procedures for the refurb process. Your MAR point of contact will talk you through all that. After you sign the TPR contract agreeing to adhere to MS standards, you buy licenses through your MAR. The “Citizenship” license program that you would use offers both Windows 10/11 Pro and Office 2019 Home & Student version. The MARs regard the price they sell the licenses for as proprietary information, so I can’t tell you a number, but it’s extremely reasonable. There are also commercial licenses (just for Windows, not Office) at a somewhat higher price, but still very reasonable. That’s for computers that you’ll sell or give to recipients who don’t qualify under the Citizenship program. We’ve only used a few commercial licenses in the four years I’ve been involved.

 

We provide our students a machine that’s been repaired and upgraded as necessary – disk wiped – Windows installed, including device drivers etc. – Office, anti-virus, browsers, Acrobat Reader, and other software installed and configured. We also create user accounts for them, since we’re dealing with extreme novices, but you can leave the machine at the Out-Of-Box-Experience and let them create their own accounts. We create our installation USBs by maintaining a “reference machine” configured and updated as we want it, then imaging that machine with tools from the Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Toolkit (ADK). We update the images every month after Patch Tuesday, otherwise every machine we refurb would have to install Windows updates one at a time.

 

Good luck, and let us know if we can help.

 

Regards,

Lonnie

 

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Thanks, Lonnie! Is there a way for non-profits to contact a MAR to purchase the licenses?

 

I am trying to provide them with affordable laptops that are ready to install the OS. They would just need the OS (hopefully at the MAR discount price) to install for their students.

 

Do I understand that correctly?

 

Thanks

 

 

On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 8:52 AM Lonnie Henley <lonnie...@gmail.com> wrote:

Joe,

Yes, the Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher (MAR) program provides "Citizenship" licenses at a reduced cost for non-profits, educational institutions, etc. You have to sign up as a Third Party Refurbisher under a MAR, which are all large commercial refurbishers. 

Good luck.

 

Lonnie Henley

Refurbishing Lead

Computer CORE, Alexandria VA

www.computercore.org

lon...@computercore.org

On Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at 8:30:28 PM UTC-4 eWaste Direct wrote:

Hello my tribe. I have been out of the loop on Microsoft and their licensing program for Windows. Are they still offering them, and if so is there still a discount rate for Non Profit companies?

 

Thanks!

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[Amber Brink]

Hey Joe,

Through the MAR/TPR program, you as the refurbisher would need to become a TPR with a MAR and you would need to purchase the licenses and refurbish the devices with the OS installed and activated, having the device set to out of box experience (OOBE) prior to the organizations or individuals receiving the device.

You may be better off directing the organizations you are working with to TechSoup for Windows licenses for their devices, or to partner with an organization who is already a TPR for pre-installed and activated devices. The process can be kinda tedious. There are numerous non-profit refurbishers across the country that are already TPRs that may be willing to partner with you on a project like this.

Hope this helps,

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[eWaste Direct]

Thanks for the info. I will pass this along to them and see what they say.

Much appreciated

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