Zoom for Nonprofits (Zoom Cares)
Summary
Zoom Cares, Zoom’s social-impact program, provides a 50% discount on annual subscriptions for eligible nonprofits — Workplace Pro, Workplace Business, and Webinars. The discount is administered through Goodstack. Zoom Cares also operates a separate grant-making program for organisations whose mission aligns with Zoom’s social-impact priorities. Zoom’s public nonprofit page does not state an explicit political/advocacy exclusion; advocacy eligibility is unknown.
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https://www.zoom.com/en/zoom-cares/
Zoom Cares provides a 50% discount on annual subscriptions to eligible nonprofits for select Zoom products — Workplace Pro, Workplace Business, and Webinars (the discount applies to annual plans, not month-to-month) [source: zoom-nonprofits]. The application flow is mediated through Goodstack, which performs the nonprofit verification against the local regulator’s charity registry [source: goodstack].
Eligibility expects recognised charitable status (501(c)(3) in the US or international equivalent). Zoom’s public nonprofit pages do not state an explicit political/advocacy exclusion policy — the de-facto filter is what Goodstack’s verification accepts, and Zoom Cares separately operates grant-making to organisations whose mission aligns with Zoom’s social-impact priorities [source: zoom-nonprofits]. Advocacy eligibility is therefore unknown until Goodstack’s review decides.
The earlier “budget ≤$10M” requirement that appeared in older directories has not been independently verified on the current Zoom Cares page and is not stated on the scraped content; treat as unknown until direct verification with Zoom Cares.
Use it for
Procuring Zoom Workplace / Webinars at 50% off annual via Goodstack for an eligible nonprofit’s video-conferencing and webinar stack; understanding that the political/advocacy exclusion is not publicly stated — rely on Goodstack’s review to decide whether your legal form qualifies.
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- civic-tech
- digital-security
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- petitions-and-e-campaigning
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- On Wikipedia: Zoom Communications — CC BY-SA 4.0