The Best Nonprofit Software Deals for Your Team
As a digital marketer for nonprofits, I’m always looking for the best business software for organizations, but on a realistic budget. The reality is, in many cases it can be down-right impossible to find a tool with the same effectiveness, while making a lower economic impact.
But, I’m often surprised at just by searching or asking how many companies are willing to help out nonprofits or even offer their software entirely for free. So I compiled some awesome nonprofit discounts I've found over the years.
I'll continue to update this list for you, as I find more.
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Absolutely Free Nonprofit Software
Free Charity Fundraising Tools
✨ NEW - Fundraise Up
The absolute best tool I've ever used for online donations and peer-to-peer campaigns is, by far, Fundraise Up. Their innovative suite of digital fundraising software is not only easy to implement, but has proven as much as a 2X increase in fundraising for charities that switch.
Facebook Fundraising Tools
To collect donations from your supporters, you may be using any number of the great software options out there.
From Classy - The #1 online and mobile fundraising platform, Kindful - Powerful nonprofit software to manage your data and donors, Tithe.ly - Tools to increase giving and grow your church or Funraise - An all-in-one nonprofit CRM, all of which are great options and worth comparing.
But without overlooking any of these, the best free way to fundraise for your organization is through Facebook donate.
The trade-off here is that you don't collect nearly as much data on each user for follow-up, and yes, you do need a Facebook page. But Facebook doesn't charge anything for setup, maintenance or anything. You're not even charged a percentage of what you raise. Facebook's donation platform is completely FREE!
Want to start receiving donations through Facebook? Here's are simple steps to set up your Facebook donations account.
Give Lively
To collect donations from your supporters, you may be using any number of the great software options out there.
GiveLively.com offers completely free fundraising tools for nonprofits just starting out or those just looking for new tools that are completely free. This includes text-to-donate, peer-to-peer fundraising tools, event solutions and more.Organizations like Malala Fund, Girls Scouts and 1% for the planet trust them, as well.
gofundme Charity
You know GoFundMe from supporting your friends personal fundraising campaigns for families in need, surgeries and other immediate needs. Well, gofundme has decided to start supporting charities as well, with their new charity.GoFundMe.com platform.
The tool includes fundraising pages, powerful campaign insights and even event registration.
Organizations already using them include American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS).
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Team Collaboration: Working Together For Good
When it comes to keeping your team in sync, there are actually a ton of free options available. In fact they offer such great functionality, that you won't even notice you're on the free plan.
Communication: Keep your skilled team in touch
Slack
When it comes to beating your chaotic email inbox, Slack is for sure the first tool that comes to mind. It functions as an instant messaging platform similar to iMessage on your Mac, but also contains links and integrations that make sharing files, tasks, or quick questions really simple. And their free plan will give you enough functionality, probably forever if you're cool with a few limitations.
But, if you want an upgrade, they do have an upgrade offer for nonprofits, as well.
Project Management: Organize your Org
Asana
When you're getting your team on one page, you need one centralized tool to see everyone's progress and work together. Asana is the perfect tool for that. And it integrates with everything! Tools like Slack, Spark, Zapier, etc. You can use it for personal use or a whole small team. Their free plans are available for teams up to 15.
Tracking Staff Time Off
Timetastic
If you're looking for an easy tool for tracking staff time off, Timetastic offers a discount for nonprofits.
Digital Marketing: Map Out Your Online Fundraising
Funnelytics
Possibly the best marketing software I've e ever purchased is Funnelytics.io.
It gives you a visual view of all of your digital marketing strategies in one place. You can track sources, conversions and see what of your efforts are actually paying off.
I first started using it with their free campaign mapping tool, something that your nonprofit can start using right now, to gain clarity by mapping out your campaigns.
You can start it, here.
Spread Your Cause on Social Media
Social Media Scheduling
Buffer
Scheduling social media posts can become such a hassle, and finding engaging content to fill your queue can be even worse. But tools like Buffer make it easy to source and schedule content across your channels. And they're especially friendly to nonprofits with their generous 50% discount. I've been a big fan of buffer for years. And their team integrations on their business plans make collaboration and approval super easy.
Social Media Analytics
Savvant.io
If you promote yourself or your org on Instagram, you get the stress of getting no likes on some of your posts and not having any clue why. So, my brother and I set out to fix this problem and found a really creative solution.
Savvant is our tool that analyzes your Instagram posts and breaks down the creative to see why people are liking your posts. Is your caption too long? Are your hashtags off? Maybe square photos are better than wide. With Savvant, you can learn all of this. We're proud to say that Savvant was even featured on Mashable, twice!
And the first-tiered plan is totally free.
Minter.io
One other tool, that needs to be mentioned here is the Instagram analytics tool, Minter.io. Now, they don't publicly have a nonprofit plan per se, but... the team there is super accommodating. I reached out to them on Twitter and asked if they offered nonprofit discounts or would let me trial it for longer, and I was able to get full access to it for over a year, just by asking. It's definitely worth a look-into.
SEO: Rank Your Nonprofit #1 on Google
Moz
When promoting your nonprofit, church or cause, one of the best ways to get found without spending a penny is to show up in search results.
When people are looking for ethically-sourced goods, and your fairtrade chocolate pops up, you're bringing qualified people to your site at no cost.
Well, there is a big cost when it comes to finding the right content marketing tool. Software like MOZPro, SEMrush or Ahrefs can be cost-prohibitively expensive. Now, they each do offer free versions of their plan and free trials. Ahref even offers up to 30% for nonprofits, if you talk with a salesperson.
But, MOZ offers, without any haggling, a 75% discount for all nonprofits! Which is one of the best nonprofit discounts I've found.
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