- The Cisco EMEA Programme is currently available to Irish organisations with non-profit status as granted by the Office of the Revenue Commissioners.
- Products will be distributed to eligible organisations only, not to individuals and within the Cisco Guidelines.
- An organisation must have an annual budget of less than €6 million per annum.
- Organisations which provide the following types of services may be eligible to receive Cisco donations through this programme
Please note: Organisations whose scope of activities includes work in developing countries are encouraged to seek Cisco donations through this programme.
- Basic Human Needs, for example:
- Housing & Shelter
- Low Income housing
- Housing for the aged
- Help and accommodation for the homeless
- Refuges and shelters
- Care and housing of children and orphans
- Food & Income
- Food distribution
- Helping meet basic needs inc. finance
- Job training/basic skills training/help into work
- Access to clean water
- Mine clearance
- Access to Education, for example:
- Special Needs Education
- Access to basic skills
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Digital inclusion
- Re-training of long term unemployed
- Awareness, support and information for sufferers of illness
- Health counselling
- Care for the elderly
- Aid to the disabled
- Prevention of cruelty to children
- Emergency or disaster preparedness and relief
- Rehabilitation services (drugs, alcohol etc)
- Access to Health Services, for example:
- Basic Human Needs, for example:
- The following types of organisations are not eligible to receive Cisco donations through this programme:
- Religious organisations without a secular community designation: A secular designation is defined as an organisation separate from the church or religious organisation that provides services to people regardless of their religious beliefs and does not propagate a belief in a specific faith. Example: A food bank that is run by a church, but is a separate and unique organisation that provides food and meals to anyone who qualifies for services, regardless of religious beliefs.
- Foundations and grant-making organisations
- Schools
- Museums
- Libraries
- Camps
- Zoos
- Rescue and emergency services - fire departments (including volunteer), and ambulance and helicopter services
- Cultural and environmental education organisations
- Legal aid, credit counseling, and civil rights activities
- Organisations that advocate, support, or practice discrimination based on age, ethnicity, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.
- Organisations must be willing and able to attest that they do not discriminate on any of these grounds in order to receive donations.
Guidelines
- Organisations may request one CISCO donation per fiscal year (1st July – 30th June), with the total administrative fees for all ordered items not to exceed €800 - up to a €10,000 retail value in all.
- Donation requests, once approved, may take up to 20 weeks to fulfil; please plan accordingly.
- An organisation must demonstrate that it has a technology line item in its budget and must be able to state the amount of that budget line item.
- An organisation must demonstrate that a Trustee or Director of the organisation has requested the equipment.
- Cisco may, at its sole discretion, provide "functionally equivalent" substitute product(s) for any request or order.
- Cisco products may not be transferred or resold.
- Recipient organisations are required to sign an Equipment Donation Agreement.
Please see Cisco EMEA Programme FAQs for further information.
