Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit (discontinued)

We help nonprofit clients with strategy, data, and software. By helping them obtain the Microsoft for Nonprofit deals, we aid them to scale and more effectively manage their operations, data, and users. It also helps us be able to manage all our clients in one place. The downside is that administration can be rather technical, and it's cumbersome at times to figure out how to go from a free trial to a full approved nonprofit account. Customer service is so-so.

• Helped us scale easily to more clients

We have used Microsoft Cloud to support our electronic filing capabilities and ensure we have access to real-time documents and information from anywhere we have computer, mobile, and/or internet access. The Microsoft Cloud product has allowed us to streamline our file retention capabilities and ensure our team has broader access to files than when stored on traditional servers.

• Easier file access.
• Easier sharing across MS platforms.
• Streamlined organization.

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT

We use Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit to host our email server for our organization. It enhances communication, provides a platform organization sharing of all important documents and files.

Being a small nonprofit, and there being expenses for most things, this is a solution that helps us accomplish more for our mission. As you can imagine, this helps save a decent amount of money from month to month.

• As of now, this is something that we do not utilize.

Google Workspace

We are one of the first professional service firms focused solely on nonprofits to partner with Microsoft’s Technology for Social Impact group. We’re helping nonprofit organizations select Microsoft solutions and working with other Microsoft partners to develop and optimize their applications for the nonprofit sector. We implement Fundraising & Engagement, and Dynamics Marketing to address the challenges that nonprofits face in these areas and support their missions.

• Integration between fundraising and marketing is enhanced through a single shared database.
• The user interface is consistent across applications within MC4N, increasing adoption.

Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud, Blackbaud CRM, StratusLIVE and Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT

Microsoft 365, Projector PSA, ChromeOS

The Contingent has used Microsoft for Nonprofit to unlock capabilities in areas where we've felt completely stuck in the stone ages in. Fundraising and Engagement, supercharged by Mission CRM has allowed us to take our donor and grant management to the next level, where prior to a year ago, we were using a desktop platform that had no cloud-based equivalent that would meet our organization's needs. For Volunteer and Constituent management, we're still growing to solidify use cases, though we have initiatives such as Every Child (see <a title="Link: https://everychildoregon.org" href="https://everychildoregon.org">https://everychildoregon.org</a>, <a href="https://everychildarkansas.org">https://everychildarkansas.org</a>) and Emerging Leaders (see <a href="https://emergingleaderspdx.org">https://emergingleaderspdx.org</a>) that engage community members, yet we've been continuing to assess the right ways to unpack and utilize the capabilities that would best serve our stakeholders, volunteers, community members and our team.

• We've been ramping up our collective efforts to increase our donor engagement, though we're also deploying strategies that we couldn't fully light up with Microsoft for Nonprofit alone, i.e. utilizing the Microsoft Dynamics Marketing app to reach lists of donors to make asks
• Our use case for volunteer management seem to require deeper, more robust and sophisticated solutions than the Microsoft for Nonprofit package offers. We're torn between ramping up development to go beyond, or consider an off the shelf 3rd party product and integrate

Salesforce.com, Zendesk Support Suite and Apricot by Social Solutions