E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities
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@eddiejennings said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:
I now have the opportunity to think through and get some measure of control over the IT needs of my community concert band. One of the members on our board has stepped up to create and manage what will be our new website (using Wix).
I have tasked myself with figuring out a good E-mail solution and file storage / sharing solution. The only experience I have with E-mail services is on-premises MDaemon and Exchange Online. It looks like there are Office 365 offerings for non-profits, and Google has offerings as well. Both of which would come with some file storage capabilities.
I'm also not opposed to spinning up a Vultr instance and installing / managing an open-source solution as well, which would be beneficial to me from a learning perspective, and I'd basically donate the service to the organization.
My vote right off is O365-
File hosting may be done via from some sites... sadly some of the resources once available for NPOs are no longer there..
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I tend to agree.
https://products.office.com/en-us/nonprofit/office-365-nonprofit-plans-and-pricingRight now I'd have about 5 people who would need E-mail access, and we'd be replacing dropbox with one drive. This seems like a no-brainer.
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@eddiejennings said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:
I tend to agree.
https://products.office.com/en-us/nonprofit/office-365-nonprofit-plans-and-pricingRight now I'd have about 5 people who would need E-mail access, and we'd be replacing dropbox with one drive. This seems like a no-brainer.
Yes, I'd go that route as well for email and storage.
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I would go with G-Suite for Non Profit, it is pretty easy to setup and it is pretty good with Image (Google Photos), Music (Upload up to 50,000 songs of your own library for free) play it online or on any of your devices, Mail and more. Google Drive works well tool
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If you are not a fully qualified NPO for MS to give it away to you, then you can just go with Zoho for your mail. You get 25 users for free.
https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html?src=zmailNever run it yourself. Ever.
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@jaredbusch said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:
If you are not a fully qualified NPO for MS to give it away to you, then you can just go with Zoho for your mail. You get 25 users for free.
https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html?src=zmailNever run it yourself. Ever.
Ah yes, I forgot about Zoho. We looked at that for something a work a while ago.
On running it myself, I agree. It wouldn't be a good business decision for the organization -- especially with the aforementioned options.
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@jaredbusch said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:
If you are not a fully qualified NPO for MS to give it away to you, then you can just go with Zoho for your mail. You get 25 users for free.
https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html?src=zmailNever run it yourself. Ever.
I use zoho for some users where I work.
It's a very good email system with a lot of options, I love it, and It's free (25 accounts using your Domain)
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Zoho's great for this. I'm moving my church over from a hodge podge of free emails (they have 1 gmail account, 1 or 2 hotmail accounts and I think even a yahoo account??)
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@jaredbusch said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:
If you are not a fully qualified NPO for MS to give it away to you, then you can just go with Zoho for your mail. You get 25 users for free.
https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html?src=zmailNever run it yourself. Ever.
I use Zoho for my side business and it works great.
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As part of my expanding, apparently shotgun, approach to making money, I'll be starting to work with a local church here soon. You can't know how happy I am to know that Microsoft has free and/or very cheap Office365 plans for non-profits!
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Looks like we've been approved for the non-profit offerings of Office 365. I now have a new after-work task tomorrow. Getting this stuff configured
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@dbeato said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:
G-Suite for Non Profit
Unfortunately they are not offering the unlimited storage option that Education accounts are getting
I moved our non profit over to them recently (users were more familiar with it) and that is the only sticking point.
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@360col upgrade storage directly in the user account rather than from the admin console to save yourself a considerable amount. A 1TB upgrade within the user account is $9.99/mo compared to $89.00/mo.
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@larsen161 said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:
@360col upgrade storage directly in the user account rather than from the admin console to save yourself a considerable amount. A 1TB upgrade within the user account is $9.99/mo compared to $89.00/mo.
That is what we are doing. However doing that (afaik) you can't have team drives etc use the individual limit
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@eddiejennings said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:
One of the members on our board has stepped up to create and manage what will be our new website (using Wix).
Oh of all the things to do a website with:(
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So an update, for some reason Business Essentials isn't listed in my portal as being available to start a subscription. I've been working with Microsoft Teir 0 (you can probably sense my frustration) support to get it available. In the meantime, I've started a Business Premium trial, just so E-mail can be flowing.
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@jmoore said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:
@eddiejennings said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:
One of the members on our board has stepped up to create and manage what will be our new website (using Wix).
Oh of all the things to do a website with:(
I agree; however, it's off my plate of stuff to do, and for right now, I'm ok with that.
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@eddiejennings Oh I understand that, a person only has time for so much.
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I would vote Office365 btw, the ecosystem of apps available combined with users already being aware of Microsoft products makes this hard to beat.
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Well, after two weeks of back-and-forth with Microsoft support about why Office 365 Business Essentials subscription isn't available, I've decided to end the endeavor. I'll be researching other solutions.
