Engage with stakeholders

Community Management

Mobilize offers an easy way to manage your relationships and get people to take action. It shouldn’t replace your email newsletter but it could be a better way to work with your most dedicated supporters. There’s a free version, as well as a limited grants programme.

Conducting Surveys

3 Free Tools for Online Surveys 

SmartSurvey is a digital survey solution that helps anyone create surveys, build questionnaires and analyse the results.

Google Forms can be used to design online forms which save data to the Google spreadsheet app Sheets.

Survey Monkey is a very popular and sophisticated online survey tool and many institutions use it. However, if you are only using the free plan it limits you substantially.

Keeping members and supporters informed

MailChimp is one of the most frequently used applications to send out bulk email communications or e-newsletters. It starts free but can get expensive as you get more contacts, though they do discounts for charities. 

Sendgrid is another bulk emailer which has free accounts for small mailings, though you can do more with paid functions. 

SendX is an easy to use, affordable, and feature-rich platform for sending mass emails. It’s a drag-and-drop editor that makes creating emails very easy and fast.