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a secure solution...

... for file and email encryption. Gpg4win (GNU Privacy Guard for Windows) is Free Software and can be installed with just a few mouse clicks.

Mac webmail application

Nonprofit fundraising platform. For every person who signs up for the service, 41pounds.org donates more than 1/3 of the fee to an organization he or she selects. Already they have raised more than $160,000 for various nonprofit organizations.

Web-based software that enables nonprofits to raise money online, build and manage a website, create email your legislator campaigns, and send mass emails.

BC is a hosted application for building and managing online businesses. Using our unified platform and without back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to lead generation mini-sites.

With akapost, you can send and receive emails from any of your existing email accounts but still keep your actual email addresses private.

Anti-Spam software for POP clients.

An open source webmail program.

Email server software

Add useful extra features to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, an unread message icon on your browser tab, file attachment icons, and more.

Hosted service for creating and emailing invoices.

Outreach and engagement tool which uses email marketing, social media monitoring, and scoring to help you find new supporters.

Comprehensive, easy-to-use software for managing non-profits and progressive campaigns.

Suite of online organizational management tools and networking services.

CRM providing constituent management, donation and pledge tracking, campaigns and events, peer-to-peer fundraising, and communications

Allows organizations to distribute messages to interested parties via whatever channel (IM, email, SMS, etc.) each individual has setup as their preferred method.

Free E-Advocacy for Grassroots

CiviCRM component for online donations

civicrm_activeuser is a simple module that adds a user to a group upon Drupal login.

Core components and third-party additions to CiviCRM

CiviCRM component: Event organising and participants management

CiviCRM component: Online signup and membership management.

This widget-maker automatically creates share, embed, and email functionality to anything you have embedded on your website. It also collects it's own analytics, so you can see how many people have used it.

ASP suite of tools for fundraising, accounting, volunteer coordination, campaign finance reporting, voter tracking and content management

Web-based email marketing service.

Evaluates organizational newsletters to ensure that they bypass Spam filters.

Email, online storage and communication software with a strong emphasis on security and encryption.

Free and easy to use newsletter software created by Justin Simoni - fantastic!

A nonprofit service with moderate monthly fees and strong customization support. Online campaigns, donations, event registration, mail blasting, and basic member tracking.

Direct Mail is the best mailing list management and mail delivery software for Mac OS X.

Email large files or store them on-line.

The eCampaigning Tool for Plone enables the set-up and management of advocacy (campaigning) actions such as petitions, letters to targets, etc. It is designed around campaigning best practices and has a rich range of advanced functionality that allows for highly effective online actions.

Send and receive faxes as email attachments.

Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs

Some Simple Steps:

• Start with a plain text editor
• Don't switch back and forth between your blaster's HTML & WYSIWYG editors
• Put together your content
• Create your buttons
• Resize your images and THEN upload them
• Run your code through Premailer
• Test that message in as many email clients as possible making sure it at least looks decent in Outlook

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Inbox Snapshot tool shows how email messages will render in over 40 different email clients, Content Analyzer and Blacklist Monitor tools prevent the “abduction” of emails and increase delivery rates.

EmailNow is an email outreach service for nonprofits to send updates, make fundraising appeals, and drive supporters to their Website to further engage with them.

Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla / Netscape and Mozilla Thunderbird which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by GnuPG

General purpose email client

I'm in the process of updating 10 PC laptops with no-cost programs to make them as useful as possible for trainings and volunteers. Here is the current wish list. Any more to add?

Messaging and collaboration server.

Web-based email service.

Get email from your existing email account on your current cell phone as a text message.

Freemail is an email-like messaging system that transports all messages over Freenet 0.7 in order to achieve anonymity and censorship-resillience

Merged with Convio. For email blasts and event rsvps.

Gmail is a web-based email with very user-friendly interface and huge storage capacity

Googlized Groupware

gMOVE is a migration utility for moving your Microsoft® Outlook® calendars, email, contacts and tasks to Gmail and/or Google hosted domains.

Have Google email you notifications of news, new web results, or new blog posts containing your desired search term.

The Google Email Uploader is a open source desktop utility for Microsoft Windows. It uploads email and contacts from desktop email programs (like Microsoft Outlook® ) into your Google Apps mailbox. It preserves information such as sent dates and sender/recipient data, as well as the folder structure used by email programs.

The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.

GPGTools is a collection of several softwares, bringing encryption/decryption and signing of e-mails and files, to you on your mac.

A web-based tool to design, manage and send

Collaboration platform for groups. Combines the features of discussion forums, email lists, calendars and social networks. Groupsites can be configured to be public, semi-public, or private and secure. Formerly known as CollectiveX.

Free hosted e-mail service.

Hyper Alerts allows you to get email updates when someone has provided feedback (e.g. "like"s, comments, posts) on your organizational Facebook Page.

Looking for a way to send out email in bulk? You might be able to get away with a tool like Outlook or Mailman if you have a very small list, or a free list management tool like Google Groups or Topica’s service if you don’t need the list to look very professional. But likely, you want a way to send out emails to dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people that is easy to setup, trouble-free, and sends good-looking emails to your constituents. For these purposes, a hosted bulk emailing service is a great choice. These services typically allow you to manage your list, create emails, and view reports through a web-based interface, as well as take subscriptions through your website. Which emailing service should you use? We asked seven nonprofit technology experts which they would recommend.

Affordable complete solution for email blasting, text messaging, petitions, surveys, voting, and more. Integrates with various databases and is extremely user friendly.

Send faxes via email.

Online storage, sharing, and email.

Hosted tool for easy creation of newsletters.

Email list and newsletter service that enables you to send personalized, targeted emails based on subscribers' interests and demographics. Automates email list set up and maintenance.

Tests how your email designs will be seen by recipients. Delivers screenshots of web sites and email newsletters for "all" popular platforms.

Messaging service to multiple devices (email, RSS, text messaging, etc.).

Mad Mimi is an email marketing and blasting service. It offers a powerful email designer as well as several monthly plans based on the number of contacts you keep.

Mail Scripts is a collection of AppleScript Studio applications for Mail and Address Book offering additional features or simplified workflow

Email marketing/newsletter tool that tracks open rates, click-throughs, etc, segmentation support, and an "infinite" number of lists.

Email newsletter tool

Mailing list manager

Hosted email management for your sales and support email.

From free for 100 bundled emails per month rising to $199 for Enterprise package for 8000 bundled emails.

Free 30 day trial

Exchange Server Email Archiving and Retreival with Outlook integration

Website monitoring and visitor tracking service.

All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.

A complete Online CRM software suite that offers an array of modules, including fundraising, contact management, campaign and event management, constituent account management, online donation, online event registration, surveys, online forum and live help. Combine all of your databases into one on our secure servers, and manage your data & constituents from anywhere.

Antivirus software for home and small-office users.

Send notes to any email from this webpage.

Affordable and well-supported mailing lists and groupware

OfflineIMAP is designed to let you read the same mailbox from many different computers, with or without an active Internet connection.

Email marketing, email campaigns setup, email stats, opt-in email, email newsletters, permission-based email marketing, email deliverability, permission email and email lists services.

Pricing based on number of emails sent.

Enterprise software for e-mail newsletters and e-mail marketing. Lets you send event and time triggered transaction e-mails. OpenEMM is the first open source application for e-mail marketing.

Email and personal information management software.

Inexpensive email marketing program with a focus on arts and nonprofit organizations.

open source email newsletter manager

A powerful platform for content, community and collaboration websites

Portable Thunderbird is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you.

Hosted blogging platform with rich social media and multimedia support

Ontrack PowerControls is a simple, yet powerful tool for copying, searching, recovering and analyzing data directly from Microsoft® Exchange Server backups, un-mounted databases (EDB) and Information Store files.

Email encryption software

The Project Publisher for Microsoft Office Project 2007 allows you to collaborate with your teams by linking Microsoft Office Project 2007 to any Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 (WSS) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) workspace.

Customer relationship management tool for small businesses.

Hosted Customer Relationship Management service.

SeaMonkey is the all-in-one application formerly known as the "Mozilla Application Suite", containing a web browser, a mail and newsgroups client, an HTML editor, web development tools, and an IRC chat client in a single software package.

Scans your sent email attachments to ensure private data isn't being sent.

Online file stoarge and email messaging service.

SocialToo enhances your social capabilities through Twitter and other networks.

Video email and broadcasting website.

Web-Based Email Server

Junkmail and spam filter for various email clients.

Sylpheed is a lightweight open source email and news client offering quick response, easy configuration and an abundance of features. Sylpheed is free software licensed under the GPL. It's a good choice for if you have limited computing power and don't need all the features of Thunderbird.

A tool to build and maintain your group's email list. Free hosted web app.

Permission-based email deployment and reporting system capable of managing large volume campaigns.

Email client for Mac OS X.

Open Source ERP & CRM

TweetBeep emails alerts based on what people are Twittering about a specific organization, product or anything. Similar to Google Alerts but for Twitter.

VaultletSuite 2 Go is privacy protecting software that installs on your hard drive or your thumb/USB drive. It uses Open Source 2048 bit RSA public key and 256 AES encryption, and provides easy-to-use (transparent) encrypted and controllable email and password protects important files.

A simple button builder to create buttons for HTML emails. You don't need to use Vertical Response to use it. Create a simple button with custom color and text and it will email the resulting image file to you.

Full-featured email newsletter and message blasting tool, with special free nonprofit pricing (10,000 free messages per month).

Tool to create, send and track email campaigns. Supports managing email databases, scheduling and sending newsletters, fundraising, and surveys. Reporting tools track opens, clickthroughs, bounces, and member status.

Hosted suite of tools including project management and CRM.

A hosted service to make it easy to work in groups. Have group emails, text messages, folders, calendars, links and meetings. Designed to bring all of group communication pathways into a central, simple place, Wiggio provides a place for social collaboration.

Windows Mail recovery, as the name implies, has been designed to let Windows Mail users recover email messages they have deleted from "Deleted Items" folder by mistake.

Volunteer, Donor, and mailing list management - from right within Gmail

Free email search and social for Outlook.

Hosted email service by Yahoo!

Free online tool for emailing large files

Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration.