This document discusses how non-profits can leverage cloud technologies like startups to operate efficiently with limited budgets. It provides examples of how a startup used cloud services to launch with under $50 per month in recurring costs. The document also lists key cloud resources available for non-profits, including free or discounted offerings from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and others for applications, platforms, and other services like backups, phone systems and web meetings.
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Non-profit Cloud Resources - Presentation for Baltimore Techies for Good
1. Techies for Good
May 5, 2015
Leveraging the Cloud like a Startup:
Cheap Fast and Good?
Edwin Miller
CTO, Aledade, Inc.
edwin@aledade.com
2. Borrowing from Startups
• Scrappy
• Tech Savvy
• Fast growing and impactful
Also…
• Lack funding
• Extreme time pressure
• Constant compromises
3. Borrowing from Startups
• Cultural Agility
• Fail Fast
• Minimum Viable Product + Iterative improvement
• Impactful goal setting & mission orientation
• Cloud computing lets you start small!
4. An Example from our startup
• Seed funding to launch – ~14 days
• Initial decisions:
• .com/.org Domain reg
• email, apps
• Logo
• CRM
• Website
• Hosting
• Application Dev
• Phone
• Zero servers, zero capex
• < $50/mo recurring cost after free trials
5. Not Everything Was a Keeper
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Other/COTS
PipeDrive -> Salesforce
DigitalOcean -> Amazon Web Services
Ruby -> Python
Added Atlassian tools (has non-profit pricing)
But it wasn’t a big deal to change things.
6. Key Cloud Resources for NonProfits
Applications
Microsoft Office365/OneCloud *
Google Apps *
SalesForce CRM *
Mailchimp Free Tier
Vertical Response email marketing *
Others through techsoup.org and
grassroots.org *
Link
https://products.office.com/en-us/nonprofit/office-365-nonprofit-
plans-and-pricing
http://www.google.com/nonprofits/products/
http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/nonprofit/
http://mailchimp.com/pricing/free/
http://www.verticalresponse.com/pricing/non-profit/application
* Free/heavily discounted for 501c3 nonprofits with some exceptions (hospitals/healthcare, etc)
7. Key Cloud Resources for NonProfits
SaaS Platforms
Amazon Web Services
Google Compute
Microsoft Azure
DigitalOcean (linux only)
Dreamhost *
Bluehost * (through grassroots.org)
Box.org *
stripe.com – payment processing (card not
present/web)
Square – payment processing (card present)
Secure fax – sfax.com
Links
http://aws.amazon.com/
https://cloud.google.com/pricing/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Non-profit_Discount
http://www.bluehost.com/nonprofit
http://www.box.org
http://www.stripe.com
https://squareup.com/
* Free/heavily discounted for 501c3 nonprofits with some exceptions (hospitals/healthcare, etc)
8. Key Cloud Resources for NonProfits
Other Resources
Free AntiVirus – Avast, Malwarebytes
Backups – Cloud drive sync (Google Drive, Microsoft
OneDrive, Box *, etc)
Phone – Google Voice *, RingCentral, phone.com
(through grassroots.org)
Webmeeting – join.me, Google Hangouts *
Google Adwords for nonprofits *
Links
https://www.avast.com/index
http://www.malwarebytes.org/3/
https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/
* Free/heavily discounted for 501c3 nonprofits with some exceptions (hospitals/healthcare, etc)