Nonprofit Consulting Services

Our number one goal is to help you succeed. We are familiar with the issues, challenges and technology that can affect your mission, so we have developed our consulting methodology specifically to meet the needs of the nonprofit market—and your organization.

Our consultants use their expertise as fundraisers, CPAs and technology experts to help you realize your goals. Many of them come directly from the nonprofit community, and they are dedicated to making sure you get the most from your solution. We understand the power of information and how it influences decision making, constituent relationships, fundraising, marketing, operational choices and mission success. Our consultants are committed to ensuring that your technology investment provides the information you need to power results for your organization.

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Non-Profit Partners backs up its products with wide range of services to ensure a successful implementation and training, utilizing our proven methodologies. Get help with pre-sales consulting, project management, conversion and implementation services, custom report development, and training.

The success of any software implementation lies in proper planning and coordination. Our Professional Services team has implementation expertise in the areas of:

  • Pre-implementation planning through business process review
  • Data analysis
  • Data clean-up and mapping
  • Data conversion and reconfiguration
  • Software configuration & setup
  • Reporting and special forms analysis
  • Training (in-house, on-site and online)
    • Consultative training
    • Classroom training
  • Specialized documentation
  • Custom reports training
  • Post-implementation support

We'll help you prepare your organization for the new system and mobilize the resources you will need internally. Whatever your needs, Non-Profit Partners has the resources with the skills to address them, from a small single-user site to a large, complex implementation.

Our consultants are committed to ensuring that your technology investment provides the information you need to power results for your organization.

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Business Improvement: Business processes are the work flows that connect people and technology. Our consultants help you tailor your processes to meet your organization's needs better, and they will recommend nonprofit best-practices to maximize your work efforts.

Restructuring your operations: Non-Profit Partners has worked with hundreds of nonprofits—every type and size. Our consultants can help make sure you are incorporating industry best-practices, while staying true to your organization's style and designing processes that work for you.

Efficiency: Maximizing your people and technology allows your organization to accomplish even more. Our consultants help you combine technology with current best-practices to achieve greater results.

Reporting: The key to good reporting is establishing a solid system that supports the collection and entry of the data elements you need. We can help you select and optimize our standard reports—and give you the tips and tricks you need to make them your own.

Planning for the future: Our consultants not only make sure that your organization will run smoothly today, they also help you ensure that you're set up for success tomorrow. Whether your plans include a capital campaign, enhanced online presence, or complex reporting or business intelligence, our consultants can advise you how to get there.

Project Management: Implementation projects can be complex. Our project managers tie all the pieces together and give you peace of mind. They partner with you throughout your project—from establishing a project plan to the project's successful conclusion. Your project manager provides a single point of contact for valuable information on project status, upcoming activities and how to achieve implementation success.

We offer a variety of project management and coordination options to make sure your team has the tools and resources to manage the scope, timeline and resources of any project. Our proven methodology establishes discrete steps for each phase of a project, with strong project management throughout.

Change Management and Training: We understand the growing pains a nonprofit can go through when making an organizational change. Switching technology solutions is a big change. From the first day to the last, our consultants will work with you to make sure that your transition is smooth.

We can help you plan and execute communication and training plans to help your staff feel comfortable, even excited, about the change ahead. In our process, we listen to your challenges and include key staff members before providing solutions that work for your organization. Then we ensure that your staff members are doing the right jobs, the right way, with the proper training.

Conversions: We draw from more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. Our conversion analysts are skilled at converting nonprofit data from every segment of the nonprofit market and hundreds of different legacy systems. They work with your staff to make sure everything goes where it should and that you have a smooth transition. With our proprietary tools, we help map and convert your data and teach you how to validate your conversion to ensure maximum accuracy.

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Non-Profit Partners accounting and technology professional consultants can work with your management, finance and accounting staff to screen, select and custom install an accounting software solution that is best suited to your organization. And our nonprofit software consultants provide you with complete technical support, installation and training by experienced accountants. Your organization's accounting software should reflect an integration of business process, technology and finance/accounting requirements to support your organization and its mission.

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It is a complex world of options for selecting, designing and implementing the right fundraising system and strategy, especially with the advent of online activities. Non-Profit Partners fundraising professional consultants can work with your management and fundraising/development staff to screen, select and custom install a fundraising software solution that is best suited to your organization. And,our nonprofit software consultants provide you with complete technical support, installation and training by experienced professionals. Your organization's fundraising software should reflect an integration of business process, technology and strategies to support your organization and its mission of raising money, volunteerism and awareness.

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It is a complex world of options for selecting, designing and implementing the right online system and strategy. Non-Profit Partners fundraising professional consultants can work with your management and fundraising/development staff to screen, select and custom install an online solution that is best suited to your organization. And our nonprofit software consultants provide you with complete technical support, installation and training by experienced professionals. Your organization's online giving should reflect an integration of business process, technology and strategies to support your organization and its mission of raising money, volunteerism and awareness.

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Non-Profit Partners is committed to nonprofit board leadership and governance, so we have designed a four-hour training review session for board members and the executive team. The board review gives nonprofit boards the knowledge and tools to plug in and govern more effectively.

Board Training topics include:

  • Roles and responsibilities of nonprofit boards
  • Board/CEO/staff relations
  • Legal and fiduciary responsibilities
  • Board assessments
  • The board's role in fundraising
  • Committee structure and roles
  • Effective board meetings
  • The board and strategic planning
  • Advisory boards

Nonprofit Partners custom board training gives you the ability to focus on one or multiple topics, depending on the needs of your organization. A Non-Profit Partners training session will include best practices of the board and drive interactive discussion among participants.

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