We note that Avast has been fined $16.5 million by the US Federal Trade Commission for selling its users’ browsing data, as reported in this week’s Security Now! show notes https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-963-Notes.pdf, and this reminded us that free software often has hidden costs.
That being said, I hope you all know about Charity Digital https://www.charitydigitalexchange.org/, which offers charities access to discounted and donated software. Alongside some software-specific charity schemes (e.g. SalesForce, Google, Microsoft and others) there are many ways to acquire the software you need.