What is Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit?
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Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit empowers scalable and transformative mission impact by helping nonprofit organizations engage with supporters and funders, deliver impactful programs, and improve the efficiency and security of their operations.
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit connects intelligent and integrated cloud capabilities of the Microsoft stack to the most common nonprofit organizational scenarios. These scenarios include constituent and supporter management, award management, fundraising, volunteer management, program design and delivery, operations, and data management. With the unification of once disparate data from across the organization, nonprofit organizations benefit from recommendations and insights critical to accelerating mission outcomes.
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit harnesses the power of Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Azure. These solutions combine with the Common Data Model for Nonprofits and are built on a platform providing best-in-class security and compliance. It provides nonprofit organizations with a holistic, connected platform, empowering staff and volunteers to focus on the work that matters most—delivering their mission. Our diverse global partner ecosystem extends the value of the platform with industry-specific solutions that address the industry's most pressing challenges.
With Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit, you have the flexibility to adopt the capabilities you need when you need them to serve your communities best.
Engaged supporters and funders
Engage supporters and expand funding streams by investing in holistic relationship building techniques that deepen recurring financial, individual, and institutional engagement.
| Solution | Description | Powered by |
|---|---|---|
| Fundraising | Enable fundraisers to better understand and engage constituents with comprehensive donor profiles. This Power Platform-based template app provides partners with an easily extensible foundation for building fundraising solutions for nonprofit customers. | Power Apps |
| Fundraising performance dashboard | Gain insights into the effectiveness of fundraising activities. | Power BI |
| Grant Management | Enable grantors and grantees to manage the grant cycle, end-to-end. Grant Management is a Power Platform-based template app that provides partners with an easily extensible foundation for building grant management solutions for customers. | Power Apps |
More information: Engaged supporters and funders
Impactful program delivery
Deliver, measure, and amplify programs and services that have a meaningful impact with technology that better serves program staff, volunteers, and participants.
| Solution | Description | Powered by |
|---|---|---|
| Volunteer Management | For volunteer managers, this app simplifies volunteer recruiting, onboarding, retention, and reporting. Volunteer managers can manage and publish engagement opportunities, review and approve volunteer applications, and track volunteer onboarding. | Power Apps |
| Volunteer Engagement | A portal where volunteers can create a profile, discover and apply for engagement opportunities, and view their engagement details. The portal works together with the Volunteer Management app and integrates with your website. | Power Apps portal |
| Volunteer center template | Use this SharePoint template to set up a site where volunteers can access key information such as announcements, event details, and training and onboarding resources. | Microsoft 365 |
| Manage volunteers template | Use this team template to create rich collaboration spaces in Microsoft Teams with predefined settings, channels, and apps designed to manage volunteer management tasks and activities. Staff can communicate and collaborate across projects, view volunteer engagement details, share files, and more. | Microsoft 365 |
| Community Training | Use this online learning platform to deliver training at scale to your volunteers, beneficiaries, and staff. Learners can access training anytime, anywhere. | Azure |
| Outcome Management | Empower program staff with insights into outcomes and impacts across their portfolio. Outcome Management is a Power Platform-based template app that provides partners with an easily extensible foundation for building program measurement solutions for customers. | Power Apps |
| Program impact dashboard | Interrelate fundraising and program data to help staff understand and report on impact. | Power BI |
More information: Impactful program delivery
Secure, streamlined operations
Transform and optimize nonprofit operations with better data management, easier financial reconciliation, and improved staff support.
| Solution | Description | Powered by |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Landing Zone for Nonprofits | Use this landing zone to establish the platform components that enable an efficient, secure migration to Azure. | Azure |
More information: Secure, streamlined operations
Next steps
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