Microsoft Azure for Nonprofits

Overview

$2,000 (USD) in credits annually to use towards the complete portfolio of Azure services, including but not limited to:

• Web and mobile apps: Reach your customers everywhere, on every device, with a single mobile app build
• Microservice applications: Deliver scalable, reliable applications faster to meet the ever-changing demands of your customers
• Development and test: Simplify and speed up the process of building and testing applications across every platform
• Big data and analytics: Make the most informed decision possible by analyzing all of the data you need in real time
• Storage: Relational or non-relational data storage including blob storage, table storage, queue storage, and files
• Disaster recovery: Protect all your major IT systems while ensuring apps work when you need them most
• Predictive maintenance and monitoring with IoT: Predict failures before they happen and monitor devices, assets, and sensors in the cloud
• Digital media: Deliver high-quality videos to your stakeholders anywhere, anytime, on any device
• Blockchain: Create a rapid, low-cost, and fail-fast platform to experiment with new business processes
• Cognitive services: Easily add intelligent services, such as real time language translation in addition to vision, speech, knowledge and search capabilities, to your solutions
• Hybrid integration: Seamlessly integrate applications, data, and processes across both on-premises and cloud
• Operations management suite: Manage and protect your cloud and on-premises infrastructure

Eligibility

You must meet all five of the following criteria to be eligible:

Organisation eligibility

Organizations must be a:

• Nonprofit or non-governmental organization with recognized legal status in their respective country (equal to 501(c)(3) status under the United States Internal Revenue Code);
• Public library that provides general library services without charge to all residents of a given community, district or region; or
• Public museum, including public or private institutions, open to the public, that conserve and exhibit tangible objects for purposes of cultural preservation, education, or aesthetic enjoyment.

Organisations must:

• Hold recognized, legal charitable status as defined in their countries, or be a Public Library or Public Museum;
• Have a mission to benefit the broader community;
• Attest to Microsoft's anti-discrimination policy;
• Only assign licenses to eligible staff;
• Only use the licenses for their organization and not license partner, affiliate, or sister organizations.

Registering your organisation

The person completing the nonprofit registration must be an employee or strategic volunteer of the nonprofit. If you are a third-party IT provider or other entity working for a nonprofit, you may not complete registration on its behalf.

Who can use the license?

Nonprofit discounts and grants are permitted for specific employees and volunteers. Nonprofit beneficiaries, donors, and members (such as members of a church, club, or sports team) are not eligible for nonprofit offers.

Grants vs. discounted licenses

Depending on the employee status and role in the nonprofit there is a difference between available offers:

• Grants – Granted licenses are only permitted for paid employees and unpaid executive staff if all organization eligibility is met. User amount limits do apply and vary by availability of country of usage. Additionally, organizations are expected to regularly remove unused granted licenses from their subscription. Adherence to policy guidance is encouraged and tenant may be subject to audit by Microsoft.
• Discounts – Discounted licenses are permitted for all staff, including volunteers and temporary staff of the organization. Eligible nonprofits may access discounted pricing on commercial cloud offers, and some on-premise offers. Discounts vary by product, and/or quantity.

License restrictions

Organizations cannot share, transfer, rent, or resell nonprofit licenses or subscriptions with/to other organizations or individuals even if they are part of the same group. If the group has both nonprofit and for-profit organizations in its legal structure, nonprofit offers are only permitted for the eligible nonprofit organizations. Additionally, groups with centrally managed information technology (IT) systems are only eligible for one grant account. Please contact Microsoft to learn more about enterprise licensing options.

For eligibility FAQ's visit the website here