A new program through tech giant Microsoft is helping local nonprofits with millions of dollars in financing thanks to the software company’s generous employees.

In 2014, employees raised a record-breaking $117 million for nearly 20,000 nonprofits and schools across the globe, the company announced earlier this month.

This year, the company and its workers are aiming to break that figure in a variety of ways, including its response to the widespread need for technical expertise among nonprofits.

“Everyday Microsoft employees have the opportunity to help people do more and achieve more through technology,” wrote Kathleen Hogan, executive vice president of human resources, along with Brad Smith, general counsel and executive vice president of legal and corporate affairs, in a recent blog post. “As we’ve come to appreciate, everyday people working in nonprofit organizations wake up determined to solve some of the world’s toughest problems. But there are so many challenges facing them, a big one being lack of IT expertise to help them extend their work and do more good in their communities.”

Tech Talent for Good is the latest effort from Microsoft encouraging its employees to use their technical expertise to help state and worldwide nonprofit organizations such as the Bellevue Arts Museum with technology training and knowledge to do more and achieve more, according to Lori Forte Harnick, the company’s general manager for citizenship and public affairs.

During its initial rollout, which began last month, the program will work with a varied portfolio of nonprofit organizations in the state that represent — what she calls — “a broad range of causes from hunger to youth unemployment to health and human services.”

As an added bonus, every hour of time a Microsoft employee gives to a nonprofit through the program, the company will donate $25 an hour in cash to that nonprofit, Harnick said.