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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a staggering impact on us all, affecting everything from the way we do business to the way we grocery shop. Unfortunately, it’s no secret that the negative impacts of COVID-19 disproportionally affect vulnerable populations including the elderly.

Flaws in hospice care, home health care and nursing home care are not new, but the pandemic has certainly magnified shortcomings to a shocking degree More than a fifth of the deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. are residents of nursing homes. That is an estimated 150,000+ deaths so far.
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​How can administrators fix health / hospice care problems?

Covid-19 has amplified inequalities in our communities and around the world. As the demand for nonprofit services grows significantly, resources and funding are tightening up. For many nonprofits, there has never been more pressure to find ways to do more with less – increase the scale of your operations, improve efficiency, and protect your beneficiaries’ and donors’ data. During a period when many organizations are still struggling to overcome the challenges of the pandemic, some cloud providers are reducing their cloud grant for nonprofits. For example, AWS is currently offering $1,000 (USD) in cloud grants, down from $2,000 (USD).
 
Microsoft is positioned to play an important role in addressing this pressure and unlocking new opportunities for nonprofits. Microsoft offers a $3,500 USD annual Azure grant to eligible nonprofit organizations – currently more than 3x what AWS offers. Microsoft Azure helps nonprofit organizations reduce costs, manage infrastructure constraints, enhance your organization’s security posture, and scale up or down based on your needs.
 
In addition to the grant, there are several tools and offers that can help nonprofits make the most of Azure:

• Save additional costs by bringing your Windows Server & SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to Azure with the hybrid benefit and reserve compute capacity to get cost savings with reserved instances.
• Schedule time with the Nonprofit Azure Onboarding Concierge and Success Center to help you deploy your grant and answer technical questions.
• Access free Azure trainings on cloud fundamentals to help your organization get started.
• Sign up for a free evaluation assessment to help you quantify how Azure can help your organization save costs and improve digital security.
• Sign up for Azure News to stay in the know on all the most important Azure updates for nonprofit organizations.

 
Get started with your Azure grant today.