The Realist Idealist

I spent all of yesterday afternoon at Google’s DC offices for a meeting of Leadership 18 - a coalition of the country’s largest and most well respected nonprofit organizations - at which we talked about large nonprofits use of new technology in their work (particularly Google’s technology). As the United Way was the original convener more than 25 years ago Brian Gallagher served as one of the co-hosts along with the nonprofit coordinators on Google’s DC-based staff.

It was an excellent afternoon as the different organizations (including American Red Cross, Lutheran Services, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Girl Scouts USA, and others) shared current practices and questions in using Google’s free applications, and discussed the challenges of adopting and implementing such cloud-based services across extraordinarily large networks.

Simultaneous to the meeting, Google announced the launch of it’s Nonprofit Portal .

www.google.com/nonprofits

This is Tech Crunch’s write up of the new page.

Nothing on the site is a new service and the page is not as robust as the mock-ups I had seen previously - which included things like video testimonials from organizations such as Mercy Corps - but this portal provides a much better way for nonprofits to see/find everything they need in one place.

Ultimately, I think it’s a great step in Google’s efforts and will more effectively help nonprofits think through the implementation of services which ultimately allow them to spend more time on mission delivery and less on critical internal operations.