I thought it would be nice to put together a list of discounts offered by online services that charities can take advantage of and details on how to access them.

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Chimp Mail

Chimpmail provides a free account perfect for charities that only have up to 500 people they want to mail and want to send a maximum of 3000 email a month.
Sign up is as easy as selecting the FREE option on the sign up screen.

Verticle Responce

VR provide non-profit/">10,000 free email credits per month and no list size, to qualify sign up and contact them with your charity registration details. They will ask you to email a copy of your charity deed.

MoFuse

The Mobile Website builder offer a free version of their service for smaller orgs with limited features or a premium account with a 20% off discount use NPO20 when signing up. If you want to use more than 2 RSS feeds into your mobile site you will need premium.

SalesForce CRM

10 free Enterprises licences for their CRM platform as well as discounts off partner services and discount training through the Salesforce foundation. The requirements for obtaining a grant has now changed and a little more involved than when I did it. See details here follow all steps!

Google Grants

Your charity can receive $315 dollars a day of free Google Adwords advertising, Read all about the Google Grant and apply here and note it can take a few months to be approved. A Google Grant is a big commitment and you must ensure you have staff who will actively monitor and work with the adwords system or you will loose the grant!

Google Apps for Domains - Email, Calendar and more!

If your organisation is currently running Outlook / Exchange or another client / server email service you should give Google Apps for non profits a look, the non-profit version is free for up to 3000 users!! and includes email and loads of other great services like calendar and document creation all in one online package.

Because its Google everything is done in your web browser making your email  and other services accessible from where ever you have an Internet connection. If your a new charity there's no reason to spend £££ on Microsoft email solutions use Google Apps instead!