Recommend: Microsoft for Nonprofits
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What is Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit?
Beyond offering discounts for nonprofits to its various cloud services, Microsoft for Nonprofit is a distinct bundle that includes nonprofit-specific applications, advanced training benefits, and technical support—including unlimited 24/7 access to technical resources, with access to Microsoft's nonprofit partner ecosystem…
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit?
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit aims to bring the best of Microsoft together with solutions built for and with the nonprofit sector in mind. The solution aims to help users to connect teams across an organization, unify reports and data, and enable program participant and donors with experiences that surpass expectations, backed by Microsoft security and privacy. Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit also includes capacity and trust-building, infused with responsible AI. Nonprofits can use Microsoft technology, including Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit to:
- Attract, retain, and grow a donor base with connected data, built-in engagement and communication tools, holistic constituent profiles, and reporting and reconciliation. With the Fundraising and Engagement solution organizations can tailor the donor experience and save staff time with AI-enabled functionality, as well as rapid donation management, payment processing, and constituent research.
- Reach and engage audiences with solutions that enables nonprofit marketing teams to personalize outreach to donors and volunteers based on their history and interactions with an organization. it personalizes interactions at scale with real-time, automated campaigns that reach donors, volunteers, and all audiences across channels.
- Predict donor giving potential with Likelihood to donate, an AI-driven propensity model, part of Fundraising and Engagement, helping organizations to be more efficient with forward-looking segmentation to support marketing journeys and campaigns.
- Deliver programs in time at scale by enabling volunteer managers to meet organizational needs with volunteer skills and passion. Includes Volunteer Management to transition from spreadsheets to solutions built specifically for volunteers. And with Volunteer Engagement, supporters have a one-stop shop to view engagement details, complete onboarding, and find opportunities that match their skills, interests, and schedules.
- Upskill communities and groups with Community Training, a customizable, mobile-optimized skilling platform that enables nonprofit organizations to deliver personalized training and information to communities and program participants at scale.
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit features encompass fundraising support, volunteer management and engagement, program impact tracking and dashboards, and constituent marketing journey management. Solutions and features include:
- Fundraising and Engagement on Dynamics 365 Sales (CRM)
- Fundraising Performance Dashboard on Power BI
- Likelihood to donate
- Teams Premium
- Microsoft Sales Copilot
- Azure App Services
- Constituent marketing journeys on Dynamics 365 Marketing
- Program impact dashboard on Power BI
- Community Training on Azure
- Volunteer Management & Engagement on Power Apps
- Volunteer center on SharePoint
- Manage volunteers on Teams
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit unites people, processes, and data across nonprofit organizations onto a single, integrated cloud platform. It helps nonprofit workers and volunteers more easily collaborate and leverage actionable insights to accelerate organizational impact.
Beyond offering discounts for nonprofits to its various cloud services, Microsoft for Nonprofit is a distinct offering that includes nonprofit-specific applications, advanced training benefits, and technical support—including access to Microsoft's nonprofit partner ecosystem and solutions. The solution's goals are to:
- Enable organizations to make better decisions and achieve more outcomes with real-time, connected data.
- Remove siloes across fundraising, marketing, programs, and other systems with interoperable solutions.
- Offer modularity and extensibility, so organizations can start with what they need today and adapt as they grow.
- Safeguard the integrity of sensitive data by leveraging the trusted, secure Microsoft cloud.
- Provide long-term value and maximize existing investments in Microsoft technology and avoids the ongoing costs of customization and data unification.
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit Features
Donor Database Features
- Supported: Constituent database
- Supported: Constituent interaction tracking
- Supported: Constituent relationship management
- Supported: Donor and member portals
- Supported: Automated workflows
Communications and Marketing Features
- Supported: Constituent engagement and marketing
Reporting and Analytics Features
- Supported: Reporting and data visualization
- Supported: Predictive analytics
- Supported: Wealth screening
Fundraising and Events Features
- Supported: Online donation options
- Supported: Volunteer shift management
Security and Platform Features
- Supported: Role-based user permissions
- Supported: Mobile access
- Supported: Integrations
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Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Beyond offering discounts for nonprofits to its various cloud services, Microsoft for Nonprofit is a distinct bundle that includes nonprofit-specific applications, advanced training benefits, and technical support—including unlimited 24/7 access to technical resources, with access to Microsoft's nonprofit partner ecosystem and solutions.
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit starts at $0.
VolunteerHub, Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud, and Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT are common alternatives for Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit.
Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions highest, with a score of 8.6.
The most common users of Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 30% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 45% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 25% |
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February 28, 2024
Recommend: Microsoft for Nonprofits
- Support - quick and usually easy
- Minimal amounts of down time - if any
- Generally easy to use Admin Center
- Back end email signature coding
- The product marketing is engaging
- Overall training is rigorous but thorough
- The system is ridiculously hard to implement, requiring too many tiers of Microsoft cloud services to be enabled.
- The technical aspects of the product are far too complex for anyone with standard cloud-based app training to implement.
- The non-profit "qualification" system is poorly designed.
February 02, 2024
Amazing Technological Resource
- Data Management
- Security
- Organization
- User Friendly
- Smooth and Simple interface/User Experience
- Streamlining the Security Features (Authentication)
- Simplifying some of the Sharepoint features
- Expanding flexibility in Project Management Features (Planner)
January 18, 2024
It's a great tool for nonprofits - with a few catches
- Great discounts on powerful tools
- Productivity tools all in one place
- Helps our clients scale
- Going from free trial to a full approved nonprofit account is confusing
- Customer service is so-so
- Pricing can be confusing
January 04, 2024
The best solution for connecting dollars to outcomes
- Connecting dollars to outcomes
- Robust constituent model that efficiently manages individuals, organizations, and households
- Covers all giving types with ease
- Provides an extensible interface and platform far superior to legacy cloud platforms
- Improve partner onboarding experience to serve customers
- Improve batch gift entry capabilities
August 01, 2023
Volunteer Management and Engagement Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Integrates well with other MS products
- Starter portal and application decreases build time, and has a cost saving
- The platform is adaptable and we can tailor the features to our needs
- The volunteer application process out of the box is not sufficient for most organisations.
- We had to build a reference process to vet our volunteers, there was nothing out of the box.
- Onboarding tasks were focussed internally rather than externally.
- Constituent managment.
- Gift management.
- Marketing and outreach.
- Continued improvement in integrating with nonprofit technology (e.g., digital fundraising, digital advocacy, etc.)
- Improvements to dashboards and reports with more out-of-the-box templates for nonprofit use cases.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Improve their marketing effectiveness, build donor loyalty and ultimately increase funding to support the Nonprofit's missions
- Robust security measures like data encryption, multi-factor authentication and threat detection to protect organizations from breaches and threats.
- Payment processing powered by Azure and integration with popular credit card gateways
- Make volunteering with your organization easy by providing a one-stop shop for volunteers to view engagement details, complete training and onboarding, and find future opportunities.
- Better understand the people who serve your organization and their volunteer journey, from event attendance to attrition levels to donor conversion.
- The Program impact dashboard enables nonprofit staff to measure the results of their organization’s impact so they can report to funders, apply for grants, and make informed, data-driven decisions.
- Extensibility of payment processing
- Planned giving module needed
- Batch upload for recurring donations
- Language translations in top markets
- Peer to peer and crowdfunding capabilities
- More extensive membership management capabilities
May 23, 2023
The Contingent's use of Microsoft for Nonprofit
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Providing a basic framework for nonprofit organizations who've been limping along or have capped out with their current platforms to consider switching to amplify and multiply their capabilities, reach, and impact
- Increasing the accessibility for both citizen developers and tech teams to extend a platform, so long as there are clear parameters (business use case) and thoughtful design and architecture planning
- Sharing some core infrastructure that accelerates the use of important tools to further the mission of nonprofit organizations
- Provide a concierge service to learn about use cases and shine a light on key features to begin unpacking
- Interactive guide for new users to better understand how to kickstart their journey
- Perhaps use AI to decipher and translate use cases to propose the technical solution or feature to utilize
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Customer interaction capture
- 360 view of supporter relationships
- Interoperability with 3rd party tools
- Ease of use
- Richer user interface
- More clear branding of core product and underlying technologies
- Improved data importing tools