Foresee Foundation’s NPOwer Academy Empowers NGOs with Digital Collaboration Workshops

The Foresee Foundation’sNPOwer Academy, is inviting local non-profits to participate in two practicalworkshops designed to strengthen how organizations communicate, collaborate,and safeguard important information using Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams. Many NGOs on St. Maartenare small, volunteer-driven, and experience frequent changes in their boards. As a result,essential documents such as notary papers, Chamber of Commerce extracts, meeting minutes,and financial reports often get misplaced or remain inaccessible.

These workshops were developed to help organizations make the step toward using a secure, shared digital workspacewhere such information can be safely stored and easily accessed by authorized board membersand volunteers.

Both Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 provide professional solutions that go beyond email, offering powerful tools for communication, file sharing, and teamwork.The upcoming sessions will introduce NGOs to each tool separately, and they can get a sense for which platform is right for their size and needs. Google Workspace, which is simple, cloud-based, and ideal for smaller organizations; or Microsoft Teams, which offers a more advanced and integrated environment for medium-sized NGOs looking to expand and access tools like Office 365.

The Introduction to GoogleWorkspace session will be led by Sahar Thomson on Tuesday,November 4th, 2025, whilethe Getting Started with Microsoft Teams for Non-profits session will be facilitated by Delano Samuel on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025. Both sessions take place from 6:30 PM to 8:30PM and are hands-on, participants are asked to bring their Laptops.

 “Having a shared digitalworkspace is one of the simplest ways NGOs can build continuity and transparency,” says theNPOwer team. “When information is secure and accessible,organizations can focusmore on their mission and less on searching for lost files.”

Anyone in the NGO communitycan register at https://bit.ly/2024-NPOwer-Workshops. For more information, contactnpowersxm@gmail.com or follow @npowersxm on Facebook. You can also join the NPOwerAnnouncements WhatsApp group via bit.ly/NPOwerWhatsAppGroup.

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