Asana For Nonprofits
Running a nonprofit requires you to wear many different hats. As your nonprofit grows, so does your list of projects and priorities. Juggling these projects and priorities can be overwhelming. That’s where a project management tool comes in!
Using a project management tool organizes all your projects in one place. It saves you time by keeping you organized and making collaboration with teammates easy. One of our favorite tools on the market is Asana.
What is Asana?
Asana is a project management tool designed to help teams organize, track and manage their work. Asana has a web application as well as a mobile app. Use it for task management, team collaboration, managing workflows, team communication and more!
What can you do in Asana?
Why Asana?
There are lots of great project management tools out on the market. Here’s what we love about Asana:
- You can see the big picture in one place. Since all of your projects are managed in Asana, it allows you to easily see the big picture. At a glance, you can see who’s working on what, what tasks are coming due, and which are past due. Keep your team on the same page and easily manage workflows.
- There is a clear owner of each task. Asana forces you to assign only 1 person per task. This makes it clear exactly who is responsible for the task and creates ownership, ensuring it gets done.
- Collaboration is easy. Your team can @mention one another within a task to ask clarifying questions, communicate needs and updates. Follow a task that’s not assigned to you to get updates whenever changes are made to the task. Each project also has a Conversation feature that acts as a message board your team can use to communicate.
- Work Made Fun: Our favorite part about Asana are the built-in quirks and fun to the platform. Enable Celebrations to experience some extra fun while getting your work done. (Be sure to also check out Tab-B, in the hacks area, it’s a personal favorite of ours)
Nonprofit Discount & Advisor Program
Asana offers a free version but if your team needs more robust features they offer 2 paid versions (Premium and Business). Qualifying nonprofits get 50% off the paid versions through their Nonprofit Discount Program (check here to see if you qualify).
And there’s more! All Nonprofit Discount recipients can take advantage of their FREE Nonprofit Advisor Program. The program partners nonprofits with an Asana employee for free consulting on how to get the most out of all their great features. Read here for more information on how the Nonprofit Advisor Program works.
Check out Asana today at Asana.com.
Have you used Asana or any other project management tools (Trello is another option we’ve written about in the past)? Tell us about it in the comments!
Knowledge Train
March 19, 2020One of the very few articles that is quite sound and full of common sense! And I like your idea that “You can see the big picture in one place. Since all of your projects are managed in Asana, it allows you to easily see the big picture. At a glance, you can see who’s working on what, what tasks are coming due, and which are past due. Keep your team on the same page and easily manage workflows.”
Olivia Tsui
March 19, 2020We’re glad to hear that it sounds like this was helpful!
Jill
March 20, 2020I found this article doing a search for Asana for nonprofits. We are a nonprofit and current Asana customers receiving the nonprofit discount. We are now all working from home and now need to add more and more people to Asana, but don’t have a budget to pay for that. We are now trying to figure out who to remove temporarily so we can use it for different people we now need to add. I couldn’t find anything saying they are now offering their nonprofit clients more access without having to spend more money. Has anyone heard anything like that from Asana? I thought I’d search before going directly to their website to ask.