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Written by practitioners who have entered paper consent forms at midnight.
Why we built SF Fellows GH.
SF Fellows GH started as a training programme for young Ghanaians. When we looked for NGOs to place trainees, we found something we did not expect. Most NGOs had nothing to put them on. This is the story of how two problems became one answer.
Read the full story
Four shelves.
Founder story and origin pieces.
The 2026 tool guides.
Free Salesforce for Ghanaian NGOs: The 2026 Guide
The Salesforce Power of Us program, the 10 free Enterprise licenses, the eligibility paperwork, and how a Ghanaian NGO gets approved on the first submission.
Free Google Workspace and Ad Grants for Ghanaian NGOs: The 2026 Guide
Google for Nonprofits + Ad Grants: the two-in-one program that gets you team email on your own domain and up to USD 10,000 / month in free search advertising.
Free Slack for Ghanaian NGOs: The 2026 Guide
Slack for Nonprofits: free Pro for teams of 250 or fewer through TechSoup. How it replaces six WhatsApp groups without a mutiny.
Free Canva for Ghanaian NGOs: The 2026 Guide
Canva Nonprofits: 50 users on the full Premium plan, free forever. And the core template set that turns a Word proposal into a funder-ready one.
Playbooks and templates.
The NGO's Salesforce Adoption Playbook
A step-by-step playbook for adopting Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud in a small NGO: data model choices, migration checklists, first dashboards, and 90-day training rhythm.
The 90-day plan: a printable checklist
A one-per-phase checklist that mirrors our 90-day plan for getting an NGO onto Salesforce, Google Workspace, Slack and Canva. Print it, or bring it to your systems owner's Monday check-in and tick as you go.
Before/after evidence pack template
The one-page artefact to produce at day 90. Hours saved. Report turnaround. Data disaggregation coverage. Ready to attach to your next funder report.
Sector reports.
Certified but still unemployed
Why Africa's youth digital skills programmes should include a minimum of six months of real work in a company before they count their job as done.
How NGOs in Africa are using Salesforce
Eight organisations, from a savings project in Marsabit to a toilet business in Tamale, on what changed when they moved their records off paper and spreadsheets.
What Salesforce could do for your NGO
Two demonstration systems built for Ghanaian NGOs, one for a skills training programme and one for a Village Savings and Loan programme, show what changes when a programme moves off spreadsheets. With the live demo dashboards.
The eligibility paperwork map for African NGOs
The exact documents an African NGO needs on file before applying for free Salesforce, Google Workspace, Slack and Canva, with examples from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. Get the paperwork right once and every vendor application gets easier.
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