We help Microsoft to serve donated and discounted versions of Office 365 to eligible organisations.
By doing this, we aim to help charities to take full advantage of the cloud by minimising costs.
Benefits of Office 365
There’s a lot you can do with Office 365; here are some of its key benefits:
Choosing the right plan
Charities vary in staffing and technical needs, so there isn’t a ‘one-size-fits-all’ Office 365 plan. Instead, there are two free donated plans and two discounted plans:
Free offerings for charities
Discounted offerings for charities
*With Office 365 Nonprofit Business Essentials you cannot upgrade to the Enterprise plan (E1 & E3).
The free offerings don’t include the full installed version of Office (which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). To supplement these free Office 365 plans, eligible charities can request donations of the latest version of Microsoft Office through Charity Digital Exchange.
You can see more information on Microsoft Office Standard donations here and more on Microsoft Office Professional Plus donations here.
Alternatively, eligible organisations can upgrade to the discounted paid plans, which offer the desktop Office apps. With these plans, your staff can use Office apps on up to five devices per user.
Microsoft strives to make its software donation programme as accessible as possible to charitable organisations around the world. Globally, they give away more than $2 million worth of software to nonprofits every day.
You must be a UK-registered charity in order to be eligible for Microsoft Nonprofit programmes, and meet two other eligibility criteria:
Microsoft strives to make its software donation programme as accessible as possible to charitable organisations around the world. Globally, they give away more than $2 million worth of software to nonprofits every day.
You must be a UK-registered charity in order to be eligible for Microsoft Nonprofit programmes, and meet the eligibility criteria.