Whats a decent free email service that will let me send emails to 1000 recipients without a problem?

Do you want to be a spammer? Will not help you. Ask your “upline”.

No I started a not for profit and I need to be able to update people who have indicated they are interested. I use gmail but It wont let me send emails to more than 300 recipients

oh, sorry @jaketheripper . My sincere apologies. I usually assume that question is from a new Quixtar recruit :P

I petitioned gmail to allow more than 300 contacts for my (legit) business and they allowed it. Just write to the contact link.

There are several not-for-profit e-mail servers, but most are not free. Vertical Response has a free version for nonprofits but I don’t know anyone who uses it so I can’t give you feedback. Most of my NGO friends use Constant Contact. Many of these providers use a sliding scale for nonprofits depending on size and budget, so you may find one that’s more affordable than you think.

Here’s an article with advice from Idealist.org, which is a useful site to subscribe to (once they’re done with their site relaunch). And finally, here’s some good general advice about nonprofit e-mail from a friend of mine. She gives the names of a couple more services which, unfortunately, aren’t free. But you should subscribe to her blog and e-newsletter for general advice about promoting your NGO.

Oh and… if your group is environmental/conservation or something like that, Green Media Toolshed is helpful. They also provide services on a sliding scale.