non-profit cloud resources - presentation for baltimore techies for good
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Techies for GoodMay 5, 2015
Leveraging the Cloud like a Startup:Cheap Fast and Good?
Edwin MillerCTO, Aledade, [email protected]
Borrowing from Startups• Scrappy• Tech Savvy• Fast growing and impactful
Also…• Lack funding• Extreme time pressure• Constant compromises
Borrowing from Startups
• Cultural Agility• Fail Fast• Minimum Viable Product + Iterative improvement• Impactful goal setting & mission orientation
• Cloud computing lets you start small!
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
Not Everything Was a Keeper
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.
Key Cloud Resources for NonProfitsApplications
Microsoft Office365/OneCloud *
Google Apps *
SalesForce CRM *
Mailchimp Free TierVertical 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)
Key Cloud Resources for NonProfitsSaaS 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_Discounthttp://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)
Key Cloud Resources for NonProfitsOther 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/indexhttp://www.malwarebytes.org/3/
https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/
* Free/heavily discounted for 501c3 nonprofits with some exceptions (hospitals/healthcare, etc)