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Cisco Eligibility Criteria (Hong Kong)

Eligibility

The Cisco Worldwide Programme is currently available to organisations with non-profit status.

Products will be distributed to eligible organisations only, not to individuals and within the Cisco Guidelines.
This Donation is currently available only to charitable and non-profit organisations that are exempted from tax under section 88 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance (Chapter 112, Laws of Hong Kong SAR).

An organisation must have an annual budget of less than 7.5 million USD 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 especially 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

Access to Health Services, for example:

  • Awareness, support and information for sufferers of illness
  • Health counselling
  • Care for the elderly
  • Aid to the handicapped
  • Prevention of cruelty to children
  • Rescue & Emergency Services
  • Rehabilitation services (drugs, alcohol etc)
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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
  • Cultural and environmental education organisations
  • Legal aid and counseling and advice
  • 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.
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A range of direct-service nonprofit organizations that primarily serve economically disadvantaged people are eligible to receive Cisco donations. Please make sure that your organization's primary mission and services correspond to one of the following organizational types:

 

  
 

Guidelines

An organization may receive no more than one donation of Cisco products per fiscal year (July 1 – June 30) with administrative fees totaling up to $1200 USD — up to a $15,000 USD retail value in all.

An organisation that is an affiliate of a larger organisation (with no more than 20 affiliates) may order products individually, providing it is an eligible nonprofit in its own right. ** Currently this requirement has been lifted-unlimited quantities of affiliates are eligible.

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 Worldwide Programme FAQs for further information.