21 Tools to Help your Charity or Social Enterprise Navigate Covid-19

A round up of the most helpful blogs, tools & resources I’ve found for charities and social enterprises navigating Covid-19.

Digital Tools & Technology Support

• Coronavirus Tech Handbook
• Tech Offers Available to Charities
• How tech can keep your charity working through a pandemic
• The best digital tools for service delivery
• How charities can support beneficiaries with digital during Coronavirus

Communications & Digital Marketing

• Buffer: Social Media Management in Times of Crisis
• Charity Comms: Creating effective comms — with the help of service users themselves
• Charity Comms: Crisis Communications Template
• PR Dispatch: Doing your Small Business PR during times of uncertainty
• Edelman: Guidelines on Coping with Covid-19

Events

• Eventbrite: Resources for Event Organisers
• Blackbaud: Event and Fundraising Resources
• Charity Digital: How to turn events into virtual events

Free Tools for Remote Working & Staying Connected

• Slack: Slack enables teams to communicate across topics and groups
• Zoom: a video conversation platform that you can use for group calls, panels and webinars. They also have a dedicated Covid-19 resources can be found here.
• Miro: online collaborative whiteboard platform
• Typeform: if you need to get insights from your users & stakeholders quick, try Tyeform
• Calendly: scheduling software for getting all calls booked without the back and forth

Grants, Funding & Business Support

• The Good Finance Covid-19 Resource Hub has listed 25+ funds and grants (and counting)
• Pioneers Post are also sharing grants, loans and other funding opportunities for social enterprises and charities.
• NCVO have also removed their paywall and all their resources can be accessed for free.