Canva
Easy drag-and-drop design for posters, social posts and reports. Free Pro for nonprofits.
Price
Nonprofit offer
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Free access to all Canva Pro features plus team tools for one team of up to 50 users at eligible registered nonprofits, with extra seats at 50% off Canva Enterprise pricing; available in 175+ countries.
Apply at canva.com/nfp-signup. Canva checks your registration through Goodstack, so have your charity registration proof and governing documents ready. Check Canva's country eligibility list for the documents needed in your country.
Great for
- Small teams and volunteers with no designer who need social posts, flyers and reports
- Organisations that want shared brand colours, fonts and logos across a team
- Any registered charity that qualifies for the free nonprofit plan
- Free Pro-level plan for eligible nonprofits in 175+ countries
- Very easy for non-designers
- Huge template library and shared brand kit
Watch out for
- Professional print production that needs advanced typesetting or colour-managed workflows
- Organisations that cannot store design content on US-hosted servers
- Government bodies, schools, grant-making foundations and most non-charity 501(c) types, which are excluded from the nonprofit offer
- Eligibility is strict: foundations that only give grants, most non-charity 501(c) types and government bodies are excluded
- Data is stored in the US
- Advanced AI allowances are capped unless you buy an add-on
Problems it solves
About Canva+
Canva is a web and mobile design tool with templates for social media posts, flyers, posters, reports, presentations, simple videos and more. It needs no design training, so staff and volunteers can produce on-brand material quickly. Eligible nonprofits get the Pro-level features and team tools free, which makes it the default design choice for most small organisations.
Pricing: Free plan available. Pro is listed at US$144/year and Business at US$250/year per person. An AI Pass add-on gives a larger monthly AI allowance. Eligible nonprofits do not pay for the first team of up to 50 users.
Key features+
AI features+
Magic Studio includes text-to-image, Magic Write for drafting copy, Magic Edit, background remover and video tools. Free users get a small monthly AI allowance and paid plans get more.
Data & privacy+
Canva states it stores data in the United States, with processing in several other countries (including Australia, the UK, Singapore and Europe) under data processing agreements; for European users it relies on EU Standard Contractual Clauses. Canva says content from Education and Business/Enterprise accounts is not used to improve its AI features; for Free and Pro accounts this is governed by each user's privacy settings, so check and turn off the AI-training setting if you handle sensitive material. Canva's page does not say how the nonprofit plan is treated, so check the settings after you are approved.
How sure are we?+
Prices and offers confirmed on the vendor's own pages. Prices and nonprofit programs change often, so check with Canva before you commit. Rankings on Nonprofit Tools are never for sale.
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