Dr. Violet's Top Picks: Essential Tools for Nonprofits

DonorBox  helps you create Donate Pages, fundraising events, and crowdfunding events. This tool also helps you track and manage communications with prospective and repeat donors. This reduces the amount of time spent on fundraising and managing donations, and it also shows you patterns so that you can make improvements and follow through on relationships with donors. 

Social media posting is a time-drain for many nonprofits. But you've got to keep active to stay on the map. CapCut takes the stress out of social media posting by enabling you to easily make and edit social media videos to connect with donors and the people you serve.  CapCut offers a free version as well as upgraded features. They even offer lots of templates to help things go even faster.  

When a potential funder or client reaches out for help, you don't want to miss it. Landbot uses AI to create a 24/7 chat experience with your potential donors or clients to answer FAQ's or offer customer support. It can also automatically respond to comments on your social media posts. You get 100 chats per month FREE. Three great things can come out of this: 1.) You improve your mission by listening to those you serve; 2.) You improve your grant applications by sharing the results; and 3.) You improve donations by showing donors that their input is valuable.  

Elfsight is an easy way to update your nonprofit website with any helpful widgets you might want to add in order to increase donations, improve your services, or make life easy. Having these types of widgets shows donors, grantmakers, and those you serve that you are engaging with the public and staying current. It makes your website look a lot more modern, with minimal effort! Easily add e-commerce, audios or videos, event calendars, reviews of your service, chat, and more.  No coding skills are required! There is a free version, and paid plans start at just $4 per month.  

 ConnecTeam is a tool that offers an all-in-one way to communicate with, manage, and train remote employees and volunteers. This tool is great for accountability, record-keeping, and training as a team - even if some, or even ALL, are virtual. The free plan allows up to 10 users. If you have a bigger team, plans start at just $29 per month.

CastMagic truly is a magical tool - it  turns your audio - such as podcasts or presentations - into separate bits of content for your social media platforms, blog posts, or newsletters.  Now you don't have to wonder what you're going to blog or post about each day! You can try it for FREE, and then plans start at $23 per month - which is a lot cheaper than hiring a content creator!