Microsoft Gives Charities Free Web-Based Software

September 22, 2013 | Read Time: 1 minute

Microsoft is making Office 365 available free to eligible nonprofits in 41 countries, a number that will grow to 90 by July.

The Web-based software includes programs like Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, along with those for e-mail, shared calendars, and document sharing. There is no limit on the number of employees who can use the tools in each organization.

TechSoup Global, a San Francisco technology group, will verify organizations’ eligibility.

Organizations that want to install the programs on computers as well as having them accessible through browsers can do so at the discounted rate of $4.50 a month for each person who has them on a desktop. The regular price is $20 a month for each person.

For more information: Go to microsoft.com/office365nonprofits.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.