Google's opening its educational tier of Google Apps to nonprofit organizations in the US as part of the Google's public service programs.
The announcement was made the announcement at the Google campus along with several nonprofits, including Mercy Corps, idealist.org, NTEN East Bay Community Recovery Project, which announced their adoption of this Google Apps offering.
Registered nonprofits will be able to use and deploy the educational version of Google Apps. This gives the nonprofits unlimited users, free phone support, API integration and email migration, which transfers existing emails to the Google Apps version of GMail.
Other Google initiatives for the greater good include RechargeIT program and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.