When you do this you create an account in Google Apps for education and it is free. You send them proof of your 501c3 status and by adding a specific record to the organization's domain DNS prove that you own the domain.
Once you have the account (and are the administrator) you can move the domain's mail server (MX records) to Google. You can create email addresses for the non-profit's employees/board members etc. in the form of [email protected]. To reach the domain's mail system people log in to Gmail with that address. You get 100 addresses to assign (maybe only 10 at first but I was an early user and got the 100 all at once). You can create a domain home page (not necessarily the organization's web site) as an intranet for the organization. They can share calendars, chat, and use Google docs to create documents and spread sheets that are only visible and shared to the domain users. Each user gets 7GB of total storage (email and docs). The individual does not sign up for Google - you do it for them as the administrator. Hal On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Greg M. Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > A week or so ago, I saw some discussion here about using Google services in > a nonprofit. I am wondering if the biggest hurdle in a situation like that > is in getting folks to sign up for Google accounts, especially in nonprofits > involving elderly or non-technically inclined folks. In one nonprofit I was > in several years ago, the professional staffer but a giant VETO on my > suggestion that something happen in Google. To her, telling folks to sign up > for Google was like making them switch cable companies. Granted, this was > before the invention, let alone popularity, of Android. In another more > recent event, a bunch of technically inclined men seemed to prefer Yahoo > over Google, much to my surprise. > > Just wondering to what extent people have run into this hurdle when > striding out into the non-tech world? > > > > > -- > Greg M. Johnson > http://pterandon.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Nov 2 - POV-Ray and The Relativity Train > Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef > Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects > > -- No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced
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