The Cloud for Non-Profits

Microsoft’s vision for the Cloud for Non-Profits is a set of applications and data stores that will enable non-profits to automate business processes around: 

• Constituent Management: Attract, retain and grow donor and supporter bases;  
• Donation and Award Management: Payment processing, fund accounting, and designation management to support fundraising efficiency; 
• Volunteer Management: Enable volunteer coordinators and volunteer to collaborate and match skills with needs; 

• Program Delivery: Design, delivery and measure programs that maximize mission delivery; 
• Unified Data: Unify fundraising, finance, program, operations, and disparate data across the back office and frontline; 
• Constituent Analytics: Understand which supporters and constituents are most likely to engage through which channels and at the optimal time, and 
• Personalized Engagement: Connect through compelling content via the most proven channels. 

Fundraising and Engagement was released in October of 2020 and represents the first example of the kinds of application solutions the Cloud for Non-Profits is envisioned to include. This module gives organizations the ability to track their donors, determine fund raising targets and opportunities, reduce costs through the automation of manual business processes, and get real-time reporting on fundraising efforts and financial performance. 

On the roadmap is integration with the LinkedIn Sales Navigator which will give fundraisers the ability to explore the professional networks of current and potential donors and discover which contacts they might have in common who could help advocate on the part of the non-profit’s fundraising.  

You can take a test drive of the solution at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftCloudforNonProfit.