Google Apps for Email

Submitted by David on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 23:36

As I was doing some research tonight for one of our hosting clients, I learned that Google provides it's Google Apps service for free to registered 501(c)(3) organizations in the United States that have less than 3,000 employees. According to http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72223:

Google Apps Education Edition is available to schools, universities and accredited educational organizations, as well as a select group of non-profit organizations. To qualify for the Education Edition, your organization must be one of the following:

  • K-12 or higher educational institution, non-profit, accredited by a generally accepted accreditation body. Learn more
  • United States non-profit organization with under 3,000 users with current 501(c)(3) status, accredited by a generally accepted accreditation body and verified by 9-digit Employee ID Number

This could be a very good resource for nonprofit organizations who are looking for an easy way to

  • Check their email in a familiar environment (a gmail interface), while still being professional (using their own domain)
  • Add / edit / delete email address very easily from an administrative interface
  • Manage, add, edit, and save Microsoft Word & Microsoft Excel documents online

I think that this could be a good resource, so thought I'd open up this thread for people to discuss their questions or use cases for Google Apps.

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Highly recommended

Submitted by EvanDonovan on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 15:38.

I have deployed Google Apps Education Edition for a crisis pregnancy center in Philadelphia and it was a great (and free) solution. It was fairly easy to set up, and it contains a spam filter equivalent to that in regular Gmail.I highly recommend switching to Google Apps Education Edition if you can find someone to handle the initial deployment. Once it has been deployed, it should basically take care of itself.

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