Every day, many nonprofits choose Google Apps to host email, collaborate in real-time on documents, and coordinate schedules - to name just a few features. Better yet, Google Apps for Nonprofits is free for qualifying organizations with fewer than 3,000 employees, and offered at a 40% Business discount for nonprofits with more than 3,000 employees.

Google Apps for Nonprofits is a great way to improve your productivity, while also significantly cutting costs. Hardware and software can be expensive, especially when you consider additional email servers, spam protection, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. These multiplying costs can cannibalize your ability to deliver your dollars toward fulfilling the core mission of your organization. You can actually estimate a calculation of the savings your organization could deliver by switching to Google Apps here. (And note that you can subtract out the "Google Apps for Business licenses" costs if your nonprofit has less than 3,000 employees).

But it doesn’t stop with significant cost savings. Here are a few examples of how the powerful products and features can improve operations and productivity within your organization:

Gmail

Fast, reliable email that’s built and branded for your organization with ample storage, mail search tools and integrated chat that offers some other great innovative features like:
Google Docs

Using Docs, you can easily create and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations without managing messy and confusing attachments. Collaborate with ease by editing files simultaneously and try the forms feature within Google Spreadsheets to quickly collect data and even embed the form on your website.

See Google Docs in action:


Google Sites

Don't know HTML, but don’t want to wait for your webmaster to make an update to your website? Empower your employees to create content quickly and easily using Google Sites. With Sites you can created internal or external websites to manage projects, host content or create a central portal for your organization.

See Google Sites in action:


These are just a few of the tools included in Google Apps for Nonprofits. To learn more, visit this site. We support and encourage the great work you do, and we'd love to hear how you're using Google Apps to drive your nonprofit's mission.

Ready to apply?
1. Start today by creating a (free) Google Apps account for your domain.
2. Apply to the Google for Nonprofits program to get a Google Apps for Education upgrade, as well as access to our other premium nonprofit offerings.*

* The Google for Nonprofits program is currently available to U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations. We plan to roll out the program internationally later this year. Thanks for your patience!

Posted by Chris Cheng, Google Apps Team