Originally Posted By: canuckInOR
Is this in the US? Does the church not have a 501c3 designation letter from the IRS? And if not in the US, it seems that Google also uses Tech Soup registration for eligibility requirements. I'm really curious how a church can't get recognized as a non-profit (unless it's the Scientologists).

When we went through this process initially it was a year or two ago, and they didn't do things through Tech Soup. They had their own in-house people doing it (or so it seemed from the outside). The church is a 501c3, but it's also part of a larger organization or something...I don't know, it was complicated, and for some reason they came back to us a week or so later and said they were rejecting the application, and I had no recourse. So when I saw that Office 365 was available through Tech Soup, I was thrilled! Tech Soup has their act together, and I got non-profit approval in less than a day.
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Matt