# Mailchimp offers nonprofit programme

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/07/13/mailchimp-offers-nonprofit-programme/
- Published: 2010-07-13T12:00:46+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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UK Fundraising has been using Mailchimp.com, the email newsletter tool, since December
last year, and we’ve been very pleased with its reliability and functionality, not
least its integration with social media. The latter is about to get even better 
tomorrow, incidentally, with the [release of version 5.2](http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/mailchimp-v5-2-is-coming).

In my online fundraising training courses I’ve mentioned that Mailchimp offers a
free service for any user that has fewer than 500 subscribers, and they can use 
this to send up to 3,000 messages a month. That should be sufficient for a lot of
small or new charities.

But I’ve just heard from Mailchimp that they do offer a nonprofit or charity pricing
programme, and it applies to organisations in the UK as well. Approved charities
and nonprofits receive a 15% discount. To secure it, you simply need to sign up 
for an account and them email Mailchimp to request the discount, with a link to 
your organisation’s website.

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If it isn’t obvious to them that you are a charitable or non-profit organisation
then Mailchimp will ask you to fax further documents to prove your status.

Mailchimp’s customer services team did point out that “we can’t set the discount
until you ask us, so we can’t set the discount retroactive on past orders or purchases
and we can’t refund the difference in those cases either”.

www.mailchimp.com

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