Free Tech Tools For Nonprofits
For a nonprofit to be successful, what does it need? Staff, resources, volunteers. According to Volunteerhub, 55% of nonprofits run off of volunteers, but there are more ways to help add capacity to your nonprofit than just more people. Technology can play a multiplying effect on your operations’ efficiency and efficacy when done right. Technology has made it easier to expand nonprofits' reach to intended audiences and also allowed nonprofits to better market their products and services to the world. Here you will find a list we have compiled of the best free tech tools for nonprofits. This list of tools is organized into three categories: Content, Teams, and Security.
Free Nonprofit Tools For Content
Getting your content out there to your community is important. Whether they are updates about what is going on next in your organization, notifying volunteers about upcoming events, or making some great valuable content like blog posts and newsletters for your volunteers to read. You should take pride in making these things happen consistently and eye-catching to your community. Down below is a great list of tools that we believe are amazing tech tools for nonprofits!
Canva - With over 30 million monthly active users across 190 countries according to CNBC News, Canva is one of the most popular content creating tools out there today. From thousands of templates to choose from, you can make content for any platform. Whether it's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, Canva already has the correct dimensions you need to make your content. Once you are finished, simply save and download your design to your computer and begin posting or sharing it.
Vidyard - A great tool for screen recording and sending videos from your computer directly to your targeted audience of potential funders, members, or other important stakeholders. With Vidyard being a Chrome Extension it's easy to install. Simply add it now to your browser and you can start recording your screen in seconds! You can also share a video through email, and track who has watched it and how long they have watched it for.
Removebg - A plain and simple tool but also very helpful when needed, it allows you to remove the background of a photo, making it transparent so you can drag your new photo onto any surface without its original background
Photopea - Similar to Adobe Photoshop, but without breaking the bank, Photopea offers a lot of the same tools such as advanced photo editing tools, background editing, but it is free.
Free Nonprofit Tools For Teams
Whether it is a large or small nonprofit, communication is key when it comes to anything getting done. Making sure that everyone is on the right page and being able to announce important updates and or changes with ease makes life a lot easier in the work environment. In this list, there are a couple of tools that we personally use at MilkCrate as well as a few others that we might have to try out in the future.
Asana - Web and mobile application that is great for helping teams organize, track, and manage their work easily. Asana helps simplify the team based work management. You can assign colleagues tasks by dragging it under their names or assign multiple colleagues to work on a collaboration.
Slack - Slack is a messaging app for individuals and organizations that connects people to the information they need. Slack breaks down the communication barriers by bringing people together to work as one unified team
Krisp.AI - A really good noise cancellation software that blocks out background noise from your calls, recordings, live streams, and more, with the press of a button. Great for when you are on a business call or presenting something but there is a lot of noise in the back.
Free Nonprofit Tools For Security
Why bother remembering all the kinds of passwords and login information you are using for your nonprofit? There are plenty of great password management tools that will help you keep all of your passwords in one safe and secure place!
1password - A password manager that provides a place for users to store passwords, software licenses, and other sensitive information in a virtual vault that is locked with a guarded master password.
Bitwarden -Similar to 1password, Bitwarden is a free and open-source password management service that stores sensitive information such as website credentials in an encrypted vault.
These are just some of the best tech tools that we could find that are not only great and they are also free! Of course, you can’t get everything for free and some things are worth paying for (hint..hint). We hope this list will help further enhance your nonprofit productivity and of course if and when you are ready to talk about building your own mobile app send us an email at info@milkcrate.tech