New to TechSoup South Africa: Box Online Collaboration Service
New to TechSoup South Africa: Box Online Collaboration Service
TechSoup South Africa is proud to announce our newest donor partner, Box.org.
Box.org provides organisations with the Box file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service.
See the Box.org Donation Programme for details about this offer.
Is It Right for My Organisation?
You can use Box's cloud-based storage and collaboration tools to replace traditional on-premises file servers and traditional file-sharing processes. It also provides tools that facilitate programme management, funding development, and global collaboration.
If your organisation works with sensitive data, Box also provides the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to support your organisation's compliance with HIPAA.
How Does It Work?
See these examples of what nonprofits can do with Box.
Create a folder structure that categorises your daily fundraising responsibilities.
Use Box’s collaboration features like commenting and task management to manage the completion of a grant application.
Manage geographically dispersed staff and beneficiaries by creating folder structures with content specific to regional offices.
Speed up collaboration by allowing users to review time-sensitive work in the cloud in real time from any device, instead of through traditional file-transfer applications and internal servers.
Embed your quarterly or annual reports stored in Box on an external website or intranet page.
Foundations can streamline funding development and partnerships by creating a grant submission and approval process with Box.
Box integrates with other applications like Salesforce, NetSuite, Microsoft Office and Office 365, and more.
To learn more, read Box's summary of how nonprofits can use its services.
What's Available?
Eligible organisations can receive a donation of Box Starter Edition that includes 10 user licenses and 100 GB of storage space. These licenses are perpetual, meaning they never expire. You can upload and share files up to 2 GB in size with the Starter Edition.
See all the features included with Box Starter Edition on the pricing page.
Nonprofit Success Stories
These organisations are using Box to more effectively carry out their missions.
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: This organisation used Box to more effectively raise funds for blood cancer research. Its employees use Box to share digital asset libraries and collaborate with third-party vendors. When raising funds at events in the field, employees use Box on iPads to share videos, PDFs, and presentations with potential donors.
- Grameen Foundation: This global microfinance nonprofit improved collaboration across four continents with Box. Before using Box, it had problems providing access to shared servers and its intranet to field offices in South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It has integrated Box content with its Salesforce implementation.
- Operation Hope: This financial literacy nonprofit uses Box as its primary content management system for all employees. Before Box, it had problems with employees accessing content because its internal servers crashed frequently.
- Teach for America, The International Rescue Committee, and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration. Learn more about their stories and watch a video detailing their work on the Box website.
- Team Rubicon, Habitat for Humanity Australia, and Beyond12 also use Box to achieve their diverse goals. Learn more about each of these organisations on the Box blog.
Check out how other organisations are using Box to create positive change by reading success stories on the Box.org website.
