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Akron Community Foundation is proud to offer a wide selection of resources for your nonprofit organization, including videos, training opportunities, grant application tutorials and more. Sign-up for their nonprofit resources newsletter to receive helpful information each month in your inbox.
Candid. is a database featuring more than 140,000 foundations. Grant-seekers can search for trainings, data, reports, case studies and more to take your research and planning to the next level. This service is FREE at any Akron Summit County Public Library location (in person only).
Canva for Nonprofits has a design tool made with you in mind. Discover the easy way to create high-impact social media graphics and marketing materials. As a nonprofit, you know the importance – and challenges – of spreading the word. With our free Canva for Nonprofits program, you get access to premium design tools to help you create impactful marketing and campaign materials. Canva is easy to use, so your whole team can use it.
Communication Matters designed a model for effective communications to help organizations build a common language and shared understanding around strategic communications. This model is based on attitudes, beliefs, and practices reported by hundreds of professionals across the social sector. Effective communications help drive your mission, engage volunteers, attract donors, and connect with your audience.
Heising-Simons Foundation has provided a helpful document of free communication tools available online for nonprofits.
The Communications Network focuses on key ways for your nonprofit to address controversial topics.
GAR Foundation has compiled a helpful "Financial Best Practice" checklist for nonprofits.
Constant Contact wants to help you if you're new to online marketing through this Foundations of Online Marketing webinar. It will give you exactly what you need to get started in your online marketing journey. Join their experts, Stephanie French and Dave Charest, to learn: How people find you online; the tools to set yourself up for success; and how to encourage new and repeat business.
Google Workspace for Nonprofits help your organization collaborate more effectively with smart, secure business apps like Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Drive, and Google Meet, so you can focus on what matters. Workspace gives your nonprofit everything you need to get anything done, now in one place. Through Google for Nonprofits, eligible organizations get access to Google Workspace offers at discounted rates.
Grants Plus understands the grant seeking process, how to interpret the grant making patterns of funders, and how to guide nonprofit leaders to strategically grow their grant revenues.
Grants.gov is your place to find and apply for federal grants and other grant opportunities.
GrantStation offers nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies the opportunity to identify potential funding sources for their programs or projects as well as resources to mentor these organizations through the grantseeking process.
The Bridgespan Group, a leading social impact advisor to nonprofits/NGOs, provides an introduction to what makes a great leadership team dashboard, plus includes downloadable examples and templates.
Microsoft 365 can help your nonprofit simplify IT management and reduce costs - while empowering staff and volunteers to collaborate securely from anywhere, on any device.
Monday.com is the easy-to-use platform that maximizes your nonprofit's impact. Monday.com helps you generate social impact by simplifying and streamlining all your operations in one place.
MonkeyPod aims to revolutionize the way nonprofits work through technology that is powerful, affordable, and easy to use. It helps nonprofits get down to business. Accounting, donor management, CRM, email marketing, online fundraising, grant management, and more — all in one simple, integrated platform. Consider it your nonprofit-in-a-box.
Wallace Foundation’s library of financial resources helps organizations fulfill their missions, deliver high-quality services, and become fiscally fit.
Nonprofit Learning Lab is a national nonprofit that connects and supports individuals seeking to lead the nonprofit sector. Their trainings work to sharpen skills in fundraising, organizational leadership, and capacity building.
Akron-Summit County Public Library is a Funding Information Network Partner of Candid. Through Candid’s Funding Information Network, the Main Library is able to provide free access to valuable Candid databases and essential reference directories and resources that can help you: research potential funders; prepare grant proposals; start a nonprofit; organize fundraisers; obtain IRS 990's; and explore topics related to philanthropy.
The National Council of Nonprofits has provided a sample Risk Management Plan, drafted based on recommendations shared in a board retreat for a real nonprofit. The plan was drafted with the help of a software tool called: “My Risk Management Plan” that is available from the Nonprofit Risk Management Center.
Dunham+Company developed a study to help identify the gap between how organizations use social media to relate to their donors, and how they can better leverage these assets. Social media is an excellent way to keep your donors informed—and fill the pipeline with potential new donors.
Piktochart allows for an easy way for nonprofits to drive awareness and impact with social media graphics, flyers, infographics, and brochures.
QuickBooks Made Easy for Nonprofits is designed specifically for those in the nonprofit world, their streaming training videos and accompanying handbooks teach you how to easily set up your QuickBooks file and enter transactions common to nonprofit organizations.
Smart Chart is a free tool designed to help mission-driven organizations create an actionable and effective communications plan. This is your blueprint for strategic communications success.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Strategic Communictation Planning Hub helps design communication strategies to advance your organization’s policy, advocacy and programmatic goals. They provide several learning topics to strengthen your understanding of strategic communication and an interactive tool where you can build a communication plan for your organization.
The Fund for our Economic Future is a center of expertise in equitable economic growth, supporting and promoting efforts grounded in fact-based research and analysis.
The Nonprofit Hive knows that working in the nonprofit sector can be a rewarding and fulfilling career choice, but it can also be lonely at times. Use their innovative video platform to connect and collaborate one-to-one with other talented professionals that can help support the work that you need done.
TRIAD has always believed in providing pro bono services to organizations that serve their community, contributing free creative services and helping to stretch the marketing budgets of these nonprofit groups that make a difference. If your organization is qualified and interested in applying for these services, complete the application on their website.