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Removal of Nonprofit Licenses and Downgrade of Azure Grant

So, Microsoft Philanthropy is dropping the Azure Grant to $2,000 a year beginning October 1, 2023 and doing away with the the Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise licenses. They will come in around $23.80 each, per month. We currently run an instance of the Microsoft Nonprofit Cloud with zero data and that runs roughly $2,200 a month without any addons like Entra, Purview, Defender, etc. The reality is that it will be unsustainable as it is an additional $200 a year for Azure and then yet another $285.60 in licensing without any of the recommended addons. Of note is the fact that when we started, we did our own coding because the Partner wanted like $15,000 just to set things up.

My question is this: How do we get rid of the Microsoft Nonprofit Cloud while still retaining the licensing for products? Currently, we have:

Azure AD Premium P1

Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise Edition

Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Microsoft Fabric (Free)

Microsoft Power Automate Free

Nonprofit Portal

Power Pages vTrial for Makers

Obviously, the D365 Sales Enterprise is going away.

These are the Azure Resources

Application Insights Smart Detection

csxxxxx5

DefaultWorkspace-xxxxx-EUS

Failure Anomalies - Main-Application-Insights

Failure Anomalies - npodv-AI-prod

FRER

FRER_Storage

Main-Application-Insights

npodv-AI-prod

npodv-AppServicePlan-prod

npodv-azure2dataverse-prod

npodv-BackgroundServices-prod

npodv-db-prod (npodv-sqlserver-prod/npodv-db-prod)

npodv-pay-prod

npodv-Payment-Service-prod

npodv-RecurringDonationApp-prod

npodv-sqlserver-prod

npodv-vault-prod

npodvstorageprod

We are completely in the cloud and an extremely small, all volunteer nonprofit. So, any suggestions to properly remove all of the Microsoft Nonprofit Cloud, it's billing, etc. would be greatly appreciated! Obviously, we would like to keep our SharePoint and all things Microsoft 365 like Teams, etc.

Similar dead silence on Microsoft's GitHub Deployment Page and a handful of tickets submitted. My best guess for anyone who stumbles across this is that the grant utilization is a line item scam by Microsoft as a tax write off which is why they do not want things like this uninstalled. Jut my two cents.

Contact Us does not work. Period. Tried for a couple weeks and gave up. If you call, they only want to sell you a product and will not help disengage it. If you submit a ticket, it is never answered and meanwhile your billing continues. Gleaned that from multiple posts for help like the below,

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/unistalling-whatever-you-call-this-365-for-non/0142c4a4-3f35-4ad5-9b63-ba1abc01127b

Tragic, really, that Microsoft will "pretend" to help nonprofits and then turn their back when they do not want to use the Azure and disconnect the billing while retaining the Microsoft 365. Par for the course, though.

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