{"id":7212,"date":"2023-11-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=7212"},"modified":"2023-09-25T06:19:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T13:19:38","slug":"free-discounted-apps-tech-tools-that-every-most-nonprofits-should-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2023\/11\/free-discounted-apps-tech-tools-that-every-most-nonprofits-should-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"free\/discounted apps\/tech tools that every nonprofit should know about"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/virtualvolunteering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/virtualvolunteering.jpg\" alt=\"images meant to look like cave drawings, one of a woman using a smartphone and one at a desktop computer. \" class=\"wp-image-3169\" style=\"width:230px;height:263px\" width=\"230\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/virtualvolunteering.jpg 327w, https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/virtualvolunteering-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I use to regularly write about this subject &#8211; about what I thought were the best free\/discounted apps\/tech tools that most nonprofits should know about, especially the small ones, the ones under 20 people who barely had tech budgets. But honestly, I can barely keep up with things, plus, there&#8217;s such a need for highly-specialized software by specific type of nonprofits. Just take a gander into the various software used by nonprofits that run food banks, or what&#8217;s used by animal shelters, or what&#8217;s used by museums, and you will see what I mean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there was a recent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nonprofit\/comments\/155pt00\/what_are_some_freediscounted_services_that_you\/\" target=\"_blank\">thread on the nonprofit subreddit<\/a> and I found myself wanting to join in. Here is how I answer the question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Google Drive (word processing, spread sheets, presentations, forms, calendar, photos, shared work features, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gmail, including Gmail chat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a> (word processing, spread sheets, presentations &#8211; great alternative to Microsoft, and works with Microsoft tools)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberduck.io\/\">Cyberduck<\/a> &#8211; for FTP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.signal.org\/\">Signal<\/a>, WhatsApp and Telegram.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.volunteermatch.org\">VolunteerMatch<\/a> for volunteer recruitment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/\">Canva<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/app.grammarly.com\/\">Grammarly<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WordPress for blogs and websites (many web hosts provide free templates as well)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll also give a shoutout to two tools that have gone away: YahooGroups, which was an AMAZING online collaboration tool that I miss beyond measure, and BlueGriffon, an amazing HTML editor that stopped being updated in 2019 and no longer works on my laptop. I have never found the equal of these wonderful tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a look at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nonprofit\/comments\/155pt00\/what_are_some_freediscounted_services_that_you\/\" target=\"_blank\">thread on the nonprofit subreddit<\/a> and this related thread on TechSoup for more. And add your own on those conversations and in the comments below! But it&#8217;s helpful if you don&#8217;t just list the software: say what kind of nonprofit uses it, what your role is, the size of your staff (including volunteers), etc. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/donate_icon_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4685\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you have benefited from this blog, my other blogs, or other parts of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotebroad.com\/\">my web site<\/a>&nbsp;and would like to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotebroad.com\/me\/payme.shtml\">support<\/a>&nbsp;the time that went into&nbsp;researching information, developing material, preparing articles, updating pages, etc. (I receive no funding for this work),&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotebroad.com\/me\/payme.shtml\"><strong>here is how you can help<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use to regularly write about this subject &#8211; about what I thought were the best free\/discounted apps\/tech tools that most nonprofits should know about, especially the small ones, the ones under 20 people who barely had tech budgets. But honestly, I can barely keep up with things, plus, there&#8217;s such a need for highly-specialized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[810,637,9,476,477,488],"class_list":["post-7212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tools","tag-ict4good","tag-jayne-cravens","tag-nonprofits","tag-tech","tag-tech4good","tag-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-1Sk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7232,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions\/7232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}