There are few groups that need to stretch their funds as much as non-profits. They routinely accomplish amazing things on shoestring budgets and sheer willpower.
With the ongoing pandemic, the need to reduce expenses is more pressing than ever. To help the organizations who need it most, here are six useful tools that are being offered by their providers, free of charge.
The Solution: With Conga Sign for Salesforce, non-profits can get essential fundraising letters, grant contracts, and forms signed instantly and remotely, so they can function more efficiently when their services are needed most.
The Offer: “We are offering nonprofits Conga Sign for Salesforce for free, to any non-profit that is not a current Conga Sign customer, through 9/30/20.* Our offer has no limits on users or transactions (no strings attached!).”
The Solution: Secure Salesforce forms made simple. Solve data collection problems and save time, money, and effort with FormAssembly, the all-in-one web form builder and data collection platform for Salesforce. FormAssembly maintains compliance with regulations such as: HIPAA in the U.S., GDPR in the EU, and related privacy acts in Australia, the UK, and other countries.
The Offer: “To help those serving on the front lines, FormAssembly is offering free Compliance Cloud accounts and Implementation Services to organizations with projects involved in the fight against COVID-19. FormAssembly’s data collection platform can be leveraged for multiple use cases, including self-assessment questionnaires, epidemiological studies, clinical trial screening, volunteer registration, donations, and more.”
3. Dropbox
The Solution: Dropbox lets anyone upload and transfer files to the cloud and share them with anyone. Back up photos, videos, documents, and other files to cloud storage, then access files synced with any of your computers or mobile devices from anywhere. With advanced sharing features, it’s easy to send files—large or small—to friends, family, and co-workers.
The Offer: “Free three-month subscription for non-profits and NGOs that are focused on fighting COVID-19 and to K-12 teachers who are facilitating distance learning.”
4. HelloSign
The Solution: HelloSign allows you to electronically request and add legally valid signatures to any document, from new hire agreements to loans and NDAs. HelloSign is available in an intuitive web interface, a developer-friendly API, or as a Salesforce add-on.
The Offer: “Free three-month subscription for non-profits and NGOs that are focused on fighting COVID-19 and to K-12 teachers who are facilitating distance learning.”
5. Asana
The Solution: Use Asana to quickly capture tasks, to-dos, reminders, and ideas. Get updates from teammates, organize tasks and projects for work, or manage your to-do list for the day. With Asana’s mobile app, you can stay on top of your work from anywhere.
The Offer: “We'd love to support non-profits working in medical research and disaster response related to COVID-19. If your non-profit is on the front lines of research & testing of COVID-19, we'd like to offer a free one year subscription to Asana Business for non-profit organizations that are new or current Asana Basic customers.”
6. Slack
The Solution: Slack brings team communication and collaboration into one place. Use Slack to: communicate with your team and organize your conversations by topics, projects, or anything else that matters to your work; message or call any person or group within your team; share and edit documents and collaborate with the right people all in Slack; and integrate the tools and services you already use into your workflow, including Google Drive, Salesforce, Dropbox, Asana, Twitter, Zendesk, and more.
The Offer: “Non-profit organizations of any size are eligible to receive three months of Slack's Standard or Plus plan for their workspace free of charge.”
We hope you find this list useful. If there are any other applications or services you know of that are offering access for free or at a discounted rate, please share them with us and we'll do our best to make sure they receive the attention they deserve.