Comments on: 10 Reasons Why Your Church Should Seriously Consider Google Apps

By: John Edwards

John Edwards — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:54:22 +0000

How do churches qualify to use Google for Non-Profits when Google specifically calls out Communities and Groups that have Religious content or Places or institutions of worship as NOT elegible. I’m looking to use Google Enterprise at my church, but this is a rather large hurdle to cross, don’t you think?

By: Ronni

Ronni — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:06:18 +0000

Google has since (early 2011) stopped allowing religious organizations to use Google Apps for free. Anyone before that was grandfathered in (as we were) and are still able to use this free.

By: Bill Spinks

Bill Spinks — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:56:56 +0000

Christianity Today has an article on this today….
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/augustweb-only/googlecutschurchesout.html?start=1

Suggest you update this post so that anyone searching for the topic will be alerted (in the post) to these changes by Google that were effective back in March.

Again, thx for all you guys contribute to our work together.

Bill Spinks, CCA, MBA
Chuch Administrator, Clairmont Presbyterian, Decatur, GA

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:46:57 +0000

Google no longer provides Google Apps to churches for free:

http://www.google.com/nonprofits/eligibility.html

By: Eric Dye

Eric Dye — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:33:32 +0000

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/nonprofit/index.html

By: Bill Spinks

Bill Spinks — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:53:27 +0000

Hi John,

What’s the latest on Google Apps/free for churches. We got in over a year ago with an Education license. Have not deployed it yet, but we’ve moved forward and deployment is around the corner.

Do you have any inside the Googleplex advice about this…just guessing you might know some of those folks.

Keep the faith, bro…’preciate all you guys do!
-bill s

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By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:52:25 +0000

I applied for Google Apps free for Non-Profits and was rejected (50 year old Catholic Church). You really should have checked your facts better before posting this article claiming it’s free. It’s really not worth the $30/person/year…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:27:42 +0000

Unfortunately I was looking though googles website and noticed a restriction on the non-profit version, specifically it says,

The following organizations are not eligible for Google for Nonprofits:

…
•Religious content or proselytizing on website as well as organizations that use religion or sexual orientation as factor in hiring or populations served
…

see http://www.google.com/nonprofits/eligibility.html

This is very unfortunate as I agree Google Apps is a good product for churches, ministires, businesses, anywhere where colaboration is key, unfortunaltey look slike now churches and religious non-profits must shell out the extra money. Hope this does change in the future.

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