Google Cloud for Nonprofits
Summary
Google Cloud for Nonprofits provides $10,000 USD per year in Google Cloud credits (with an optional additional $3,000/year in Google Maps Platform credits) to validated nonprofits through the Google for Nonprofits gateway. The earlier “Free Tier only” claim in the updated directory is wrong — the standard offer is the $10k/yr credit grant. Eligibility follows Google for Nonprofits and therefore excludes political organisations and organisations whose primary purpose is influencing legislation.
Body
https://cloud.google.com/nonprofits/
Google Cloud for Nonprofits is one of the products unlocked through the Google for Nonprofits gateway: an organisation that has already validated through TechSoup / country partner can apply for the $10,000 USD per year in Google Cloud credits at cloud.google.com/nonprofits [source: google-cloud-nonprofits]. The standard credit amount is $10k/yr (not the historical “Free Tier only” claim that appeared in some secondary directories — that is incorrect; the program is a recurring annual credit grant, not just free-tier access) [source: google-cloud-nonprofits].
An optional additional $3,000/year in Google Maps Platform credits is also available for nonprofits building location-aware services [source: google-cloud-nonprofits].
Eligibility is the same as the parent gateway: 501(c)(3) in the US (and equivalents internationally), with the political-organisation / primary-purpose exclusion inherited from Google for Nonprofits [source: google-for-nonprofits][source: google-cloud-nonprofits]. A non-partisan charitable organisation that does some advocacy can qualify; a partisan/electoral or pure-lobbying org cannot.
Use it for
Procuring $10k/yr in Google Cloud credits to offset compute, storage, BigQuery, and ML workloads; stacking an additional $3k/yr in Maps Platform credits if your campaigns use maps; confirming your eligibility against the Google for Nonprofits primary-purpose test before applying.
Related
- civic-tech
- digital-security
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- petitions-and-e-campaigning
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