Are you a nonprofit or work with a nonprofit? Here are some FREE online tools you should consider using as a nonprofit:
Most businesses (‘for profit’ companies) should also consider using these awesome tools, which most on this list are free even for commercial use.
Here are links to some of the best tools I’ve come across, and highly recommend for almost any nonprofit or company:
- WordPress.org – free website (see SiteSubscribe for hosting)
- Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter /Facebook – free social media profiles
- Insightly – free CRM (6 users free or 12 users $29/month)
- Google Apps for Nonprofits – free email using your domain name, shared calendar, shared contacts
- Youtube for Nonprofits – free donation button within video
- Donations (eGive) – low cost online donations
- Mailchimp – free email marketing (up to 12,000 emails per month free)
- Trello – free collaborative tool for task management
- Hootsuite – free social media marketing
- Evernote – free web clipping
- Zapier – free (freemium) integrations between online services
- Dropbox – free (freemium) online backup, storage, and file sharing
- Podio – free online database (use for project management, CRM, expense reporting, etc.)
- Join.me – free web conferencing
- Uberconference.com – free conference calls
- FreeConferenceCall – free conference calls
- Salesforce for Nonprofits – free CRM for 10 users
Chrome Extensions:
- Insightly
- Yesware – (freemium) track email opens plus sync email/calendar to Salesforce
- Free Online PDF Tools – edit/combining PDF files
- Google Forms – free shareable online forms
- QR Code Generator – marketing with QR codes
- Gantter – online Gantt charts with drag-and-drop
