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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

Get Fully Funded

Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

There are many reasons why opting for a free fundraising solution could be tempting to your nonprofit: You might be curious about the impact that paid donor database solutions can have on your nonprofit. Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it. transaction fee per donation.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For most of that time, except when I was doing heavy collaborative editing with colleagues who are using MS Office, it is my Office Suite of choice. It does have a drawing program, an XML editor, as well as a math equation editor, in addition to the standard word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool and database.

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

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With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets.

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Crazy for the Tools

NTEN

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. OK, enough preliminaries.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Database Manager. Web Producer.

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Letter from Participation Camp: The Digital Divide

Forum One

A volunteer opportunity database is needed to connect service organizations with volunteers who have web and technical skills. Service providers should conduct training on free tools, such as Google Docs, that are more widely available for those on tight budgets. Raw, collaboratively-written notes from this session are also available.