Generating constant content for your nonprofit’s social media pages is very important but it can also eat up a lot of time. We generate a lot of content ourselves and we use many web tools to make the job a little easier. Here are a few of our favorites that can hopefully improve your work too!
Unsplash
One of the big challenges when it comes to creating great content is finding just the right images. Sure, there are a lot of paid options out there but we work on a budget, and often that budget is zero. Enter Unsplash.
Unsplash is an amazing resource of photography that you use use in social media, blog posts, print pieces, just about anything you can think of. From people to locations to events to activities, chances are someone has shared a photo to Unsplash, and you can use it as you see fit.
Even this photo of Cardiff Bay, one of my favorite places to visit, was on Unsplash.
Nappy.co
Need amazing stock photography of Black and Brown people? That can sometimes be hard to find, but Nappy.co has amazing photos for a variety of uses. They describe their mission as:
to provide beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people to startups, brands, agencies, and everyone else. Nappy makes it easy for companies to be purposeful about representation in their designs, presentations, and advertisements.
Undraw
With Undraw, you can create a great mix of open-source illustrations for your business and content ideas.
This style of illustration is popular right now, and Undraw powers many of the illustrations you see on web sites. I like that you can find lots of technology and business ideas portrayed, and you can change the featured color to match your brand colors. You can also download PNGs or SVGs for even more flexibility.
Created by Katerina Limpitsouni, she describes the project here:
Launched in 2017, with the simple goal to show that we designers should contribute to the open-source community, to help bring beautiful design abilities to everyone. unDraw has grown unexpectedly to be used by organisations like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Harvard Business School, started something cool with Adobe and has been adopted by a truly open community that includes designers, developers and content creators, using it everyday in unique and unexpected products, projects and ways.
The Noun Project
Need an icon to help show/describe what your nonprofit does or a service you provide? Then the Noun Project is for you. Icons are a great way to visually show complex ideas or services.
The Noun Project collects and classifies symbols made and uploaded by graphic artists from all over the world. Like Undraw, you can customize the icon’s colors, sizes, rotation and more. I also like that if you find an icon and style you like, there are hundreds of icon collections by the same artist in similar styles.
The company, which is based in Los Angeles, serves as a resource for anyone looking for typographic symbols as well as a design history of the genre.
We hope these tools lighten your load just a little bit.
