Resources & Tools
Airtable offers 50% off the monthly cost of Plus or Pro licenses to qualifying organizations.
We use Airtable for social media content planning for our clients. It’s also a great collaboration tool for our clients to track what’s coming up and approve content.
Collaboration
Asana offers eligible nonprofits a 50% discount on Premium or Business subscriptions. Asana also offers pro-bono consultations with Asana Advisors to help with onboarding, exclusively for members of the Asana for Nonprofits Program.
We use Asana as a task manager; it has a lot more capabilities and integration than what we use it for, but it helps us track the things we need to do for our business and also for our clients.
Nonprofit organizations receive a 30% discount on any paid Miro plans to support the important work they're doing. It may be combined with their standard annual discount (20%) on Team and Consultant Plans, which gives about 50% off the purchase.
The Slack for Nonprofits program offers free or discounted plan upgrades to eligible organizations:
Pro Plan: Slack offers workspaces with 250 or fewer members a free upgrade, and an 85% discount for workspaces above that size.
Business+ Plan: Slack offers workspaces of any size an 85% discount.
We use Slack DAILY! It’s a great communication and collaboration tool. We have different channels for each client and/or projects, which keeps us organized. Slack also allows you to integrate other apps and tools, which helps us track project status and stay on task to completion.
Adobe offers nonprofit pricing discounts in their VIP (Value Incentive Plan) and TLP (Transactional Licensing Program) programs globally.
In several regions, Adobe partners with TechSoup to distribute software. If your organization is registered with TechSoup, sign in and view the offers and discounts your organization is eligible for.
We wouldn’t recommend Adobe unless you’re planning on REALLY diving into the tools and learning a lot about them or have someone on your team who can. Adobe products aren’t super user friendly, but they’re definitely amazing tools if you can use them.
Design
Canva for Nonprofits program unlocks all the premium features of Canva Pro – for up to 10 people (including you) in your organization – for free.
We use Canva DAILY. We do all our design work through Canva, which allows us to easily collaborate with clients. We couldn’t speak more highly of it. It’s a must!
Constant Contact offers discounts for nonprofits who elect to prepay for their accounts. Constant Contact also honors tax exemption for qualified eligible customers.
Call the billing team at 866-511-1966, so they can apply the nonprofit discount.
Although we currently don’t use Constant Contact, we have used it for a nonprofit that we worked for. It is user friendly and we definitely recommend it.
Email Marketing
Mailchimp offers discounts for nonprofit organizations and accounts that set up two-factor authentication. You may qualify for both.
Mailchimp offers a 15% discount to verified nonprofit organizations and charities.
Mailchimp is currently what many of our clients use; it’s a great and affordable tool for small businesses and nonprofits.
Jotform offers nonprofit organizations a 50% discount on Bronze, Silver, and Gold plans.
Forms & Surveys
SurveyMonkey offers nonprofit organizations a 25% discount on the price of an annual subscription.
Typeform offers various discounts for Students, Educators, and Nonprofits:
Student monthly: 40% discount for 12 months on a monthly plan
Student yearly: 50% discount for 1 year on a yearly plan
Educator/NGO monthly: 25% discount forever on a monthly plan
Educator/NGO yearly: 40% discount forever on a yearly plan
Eventbrite doesn’t offer a discounted rate for nonprofits, but provide tools to collect donations and fundraise for causes. Eventbrite is always free to use if you choose to pass your fees on to attendees.
The Essentials and Professional products are free for free tickets — they only charge you each time you sell a paid ticket. Organizers with only free events have access to everything in Essentials, and everything in Professional except for phone, chat, or email support.
Many of our clients use Eventbrite for both their in-person AND virtual events.
General
Google offers nonprofit organizations the entire Google Workplace (Gmail, Drive, Meet, and more) for free.
We use Google Workspace for our own business and it’s pretty user friendly.
Linktree offers nonprofit organizations the PRO plan for free - available for one account per organization.
You need to have an existing Linktree free account to be eligible. Create one here first.
We helped our client sign up and the options for customization were amazing! Their profile looks great! We also use Linktree for our own business and most clients do too. In general, Linktree is great for sharing multiple links so you don’t have to choose. Most people use it for their Instagram profiles.
TechSoup supports nonprofits, charities, and libraries by providing access to donations and discounts on software, hardware, and services from major brands.
Sign up for TechSoup and validate your organization using your EIN number. Validation does not guarantee eligibility, because each provider sets its own eligibility rules.
Microsoft provides grants and discounts for eligible nonprofit organizations, including cloud services like Microsoft 365, Azure and Dynamics 365, Surface hardware, on-premises software, and digital skilling.
To provide nonprofits transparency, Microsoft’s approach is to provide up to a 75% discount on core products for cloud and on-premises products, and up to a 60% discount on premium products. Exact pricing may vary by purchase channel due to value added partner services and additional support levels offered to nonprofits.
Microsoft partners with TechSoup to verify an organization’s nonprofit status and to distribute software.
Stripe offers a discounted processing fee for qualifying nonprofit organizations. Stripe's custom charity pricing structure is only applicable for organizations accepting donations (e.g. not selling products or tickets), and by receiving these discounted rates, your organization will be agreeing to primarily use your Stripe account for this purpose.
Payment Processing
PayPal offers a 1.99% reduced transaction rate for qualifying organizations. Once approved, these rates will apply to certain transactions received in the account. Any reference to “fixed fee” means the fixed fee for charity transactions.
Eligible charities will also be automatically enrolled in the PayPal Giving Fund, which you can choose to opt out.
Sign up with Gusto & receive a $100 Visa gift card! This is a referral link and we’ll receive a gift card too! But we use Gusto in our own business for payroll. We process vendor payments and collect payments from clients too!
To make it easier for nonprofits to harness the power of social media, Hootsuite offers a nonprofit discount of up to 50% on their social media solutions.
Hootsuite is one of our favorite scheduling tools. It’s usually more expensive than other tools, but very robust.
Social Media Management
Later offers a 50% discount on annual and monthly subscription payments for qualified non-profit organizations and a 100% discount off their Growth monthly plan for non-profit organizations fighting racism.
You need to have an existing Later account and an active subscription.
Later is another user friendly scheduling tool. We helped a client sign up for the 100% discount, which was quick and easy. This tool may be more cost effective even if you’re not able to get the 100% discount.
MeetEdgar offers a permanent 10% off discount for non-profits and military/veteran families. This discount only applies to the standard annual or monthly plans.
We use this tool for one of our small business clients and it’s a bit more clunky. However, if you want to auto-generate different versions of your posts (that you approve of in advance), it’s great for filling up your schedule for you, which other tools don’t do.
