Google to Start Charging Non-Profits

Google announced today that starting at the beginning of March, writes at the Google Checkout Blog:

If your organization is already a Google Grants recipient using Checkout for donation processing, please make sure to guidelines for the program, we strongly encourage you to

Google has been allowing non-profit organizations to ue Google Checkout for donation processing for free since 2007. At that point, 100% of contributions were going to the causes. I guess the economy is calling for Google to get their slice of the pie. It's not all that surprising considering all of the company's