(ISF) SPSS for nonprofits

Dear ISF Colleagues,

Does anyone know of ways that nonprofits can buy SPSS licenses at a
discount? The SPSS web site mentions educational discounts
<http://www.spss.com/stores/1/Software_HigherEducation_C91.cfm>, but
not nonprofit discounts, and I gather that this is not a product line
sold by TechSoup.Org.

Many thanks and best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finn%40post.harvard.edu">deborah_elizabeth_finnpost.harvard.edu
www.cyber-yenta.org

Recommended reading:
"Universal Declaration of Human Rights&quot;
<http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights>;

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Hi All,

At my last position we had some cumbersome QI measurements we needed to track so we purchased SPSS for the job. Through persistent calls (about 3 months), finagling, whining and promising (I still recommend SPSS to this day) I was able to get a discounted rate on their standard product. Where SPSS will not budge is on the annual support/maintenance costs (where they get most of the money anyway). But we figured that we would have the first year to set up our system and then be able to rely on internal or external support for the infrequent changes we would make.

I am now going to let you in on the bad news. This was about 5 years ago and I have no current need of SPSS. So I do not have any current contacts or pricing. But I do want to shed a ray of hope onto the endeavor. It is possible, so contact a sales rep and bravely carry on!

David Whitham
Director of Information Technology
Dimock Community Health Center
55 Dimock St
Roxbury, MA 02119
617-442-8800 xt 1486
dwhitham%40dimock.org">dwhithamdimock.org

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Hi Deborah,

Unless something has changed recently, I believe SPSS does _not_ have non-profit discounts. The have two discounts - academic and government.

However, I do know of a non-profit that got the government discount by stating that they were buying the program with government grant money.

Best Regards,

Ray

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>&gt;Does anyone know of ways that nonprofits can buy SPSS licenses at a discount? The SPSS web site mentions educational discounts <http://www.spss.com/stores/1/Software_HigherEducation_C91.cfm>, but not nonprofit discounts, and I gather that this is not a product line sold by TechSoup.Org.>>;

Why not look at some free and lower cost alternatives to SPSS:

http://webpages.charter.net/bobalston/Documents/StatisticsSoftware.htm

Bob

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