2023 Version! Tools Every Non-Profit Needs to Succeed

March 29, 2023

Make your life easier!

by Lori Shecter

Here’s a list of tools that will make your staff’s lives easier and help them get the job done! Some tools are free, some offer free trials, and some are paid – share with your team. Share with the world! 🙂 Even though you might not need all of them, someone on your team needs them. Have more you’d like to add to this list? Shoot us an email from the form on the right! Some of these tools might also be available at a discount on TechSoup.

Featured Tools For Non-Profits:

Here you will find some pretty awesome stuff we are trialing for all of you, awesome non-profits out there. We’ve selected them based on their ability to help you FIND THE MONEY.

Donor Search | We are just demoing this huge database full of individuals and donors. This is a completely robust tool to find the exact donor or sponsor you may need. So far, I love what I am seeing. What’s great about Donor Search? It’s a FREE three-week trial PLUS the account team will help you use the tool and run reports. Worried about not having time to use this tool? Don’t be! Donor Search’s account team is almost like having an on-staff development staff member.

Double the Donation | Another amazing tool but very different than Donor Search. Most employees don’t know about their company’s donor match programs. This unique little piece of code integrates with your donation software and shows people whether their company will double their donation and guides them down the easy path to do so. Free trials and more!

10-Minute 360MatchPro Overview from Double the Donation on Vimeo.

(Update 01/13/2023)

Latest Discovered:

We have updated this section (and will continue to do so) in case you have bookmarked this list – it makes it easy for you to find the newest listing!

E-Card Widget | We just found this new and clever tool. We are testing it out and hope that you will too. Stay tuned for our results! A very interesting tool for thanking donors and other important email functions.

Digital eCard Donations – https://ecardwidget.com/donor-recognition-software-custom-digital-greeting-cards/
Personalized Donation Thank-you eCards – https://ecardwidget.com/donor-recognition-software-custom-digital-greeting-cards/

Copy.ai | This tool helps people write content. Whether or not you are a great writer, this perfect tool for non-profits (it’s free!) can help you write content for websites, grants, and social media.

Lumen5.com | Their premise is they turn your blogs into videos. Not exactly – more like into a moving PowerPoint. But try it yourself to see for sure.
Uber Suggest IO | This is a free tool from Neil Patel that helps you find the keywords that you need to use in order to make your website easier to find by search engines.
Story Blocks | A paid tool to get stock videos. We like it – it’s a subscription so you can cancel any time.
Motion Array | Paid tools for non-profits for stock videos and music, templates, motion graphics, and more. As a video creator, it’s well worth the $30/month price. For an example of “Motion Array” in action, view this website (top video).

Design Tools

Design Tools Chrome Extensions

Note: Disable extensions when not in use so that your browser doesn’t slow down!

What Font – Helps you to identify Fonts on Website
Eyedropper – Tells you what colors are on websites
UX Principles Helps you understand Website User Experience
Koala Inspector – Shopify
Heurio – Check Visual Feedback on a Website

Conference Calling

Video Editors

Kapwing
Filmora
Vimeo
Animoto
We Video
Lumen 5
Canva

Video Maker

Biteable
Break Out Clips

Project Management

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Email CRM

Email and Ad Writing

Check your Grammar!

Grammarly
Ginger

Donation Software

GiveWP | We use it because it’s completely integrated with WordPress and we use it on our websites. To see an example, visit this live website.
Donor Box | Free
Bloomerang
Little Green Light
Kindful
Neon
FlipCause
Give Box
Auction Software
Cause Vox | This actually is free which always makes me wonder… how do they make money to survive?

Grant Finders

Funds for NGOS
GrantStation
GrantWatch
Grants.gov
Foundation Center
Grant Gopher
Wells Fargo
JP Morgan Chase
Google Ad Grants

Storage

Dropbox | Free and Paid
Google Drive | Free and Paid
One Note | Paid included in Microsoft Packages

Analytics

Surveys and Forms

Survey Monkey | Paid + Free Trial
Typeform | Paid

Social Scheduling

Website Builders

We Are Immediate | The best we highly recommend them – Yes that is our self-promotion!
SquareSpace
Wix
WordPress.com | Not to be confused with “WordPress.org” which is a Content Management System.
Weebly
GoDaddy

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