Maintaining and building relationships is extremely important for nonprofits.
They need to be in touch with stakeholders, donors, sponsors, volunteers and members at the right time and foster relationships ensuring that the mission objectives are rightfully met. A lot of nonprofit organizations face challenges around maintaining relationships.
It is important to have an understanding of when and how often to connect with them and what kind of information to provide to them.
Not-for-profit organizations need a holistic view of their relationships. This allows them to take a look at the donor base and understand how they are connected and with other organizations so they can be provided with the right kind of information and effective services.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides a relationship management system that can help nonprofits achieve the strategic goals of their mission offering a complete view of the relationships and campaigns as well as opportunities for operational enhancements and cost savings.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 helps a nonprofit to transition from the archaic worksheets and a siloed perspective to something which is more strategic, organized and helps in making real time effective decisions.
With it you can change the way you have handled donor data and details. It provides a plethora of advantages. To begin with:
- View a donors’ complete donation history in one place
- Easily see all donors pledged or planned giving for forecasting data
- Effortlessly generate a prospect pipeline of your major donors and then assess where they stand in the pipeline
- Better way clean old, redundant donor data
- Evaluate the success of your marketing campaigns
- An efficient way for the donation and/or pledge information to integrate with the Accounting team
- Identifying donors and scheduling regular touchpoints to fortify relationships
- Managing donation targets and programs to support outreach and events
- Maximizing donation openings within the existing donor-base
Dynamics 365 on your side, you can engage donors at the right time, at the right place and in a way that you earn their support for your mission for a very long time. It considers contextual information and analysis into every conversation and enables personalized service through a comprehensive view of donor interactions.
With the efficiency of this tool you will be able to provide quick, easy responses, even using analytics to predict your donor needs.
As a nonprofit you can focus on your fundraising activities better with Dynamics 365 as you will get a scope of understanding your donors’ behavior, pattern and the source of the donations.
You can maintain a healthy relationship with them once you have observed their pattern of donation behavior, whether they donate frequently, occasionally etc. You will be able to view reports analyzing the pattern and create a stronger bond with them.
With Dynamics 365 you can have a complete view of donor engagement which will help you spot trends, issues, and find out what kind of drives are most effective so that they can have a greater bearing in the future.
Not-for-profit associations with membership schemes can also operate these programs through Dynamics 365, and manage data, such as relationships and previous interactions, along with processing member subscriptions, orders, and invoices.
The tool includes the ability to set up self-service portals as well, so that donors can access information, manage their profiles and subscriptions, and make donations directly. This platform helps in creating an end-to-end business solution that ranges from the data center to the back office to the front office to your donors and everyone else involved.
You can align your people, processes, and technology to all work as one toward a common mission.
Nonprofits are looking for ways to improve their operational processes, that can make them more efficient effective. This can be easily achieved through Dynamics 365 and with its automation feature it just gets better.
With this application you can do away with your struggle with collecting information residing in silos such as spreadsheets, Access databases, Outlook or other systems.
Unfortunately, in many cases these systems are not effective or reliable and there is a lot of effort and time involved in creating the data that they require to communicate with your donors and to make informed decisions. And this is precisely one of the reasons that a lot of nonprofit organizations are turning towards Microsoft Dynamics 365.
They know the software can enhance and increase their relationships and without the generosity of the donors making the world a better place will be a little difficult.
AhaApps understands the substantial difference Dynamics 365 can make for a nonprofit organization, streamlining your methods and interactions with sponsors, donors, benefactors, volunteers alike.
Today, the pace of change in technology is such that there are new things being released every day. It definitely is an exciting time to be in but it also means that it is important to have a good consultative technology partner as you progress in your digital transformation journey.
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Author’s bio:
Mohona is a Content Writer for the Marketing team in AhaApps since 2019. When she is not busy attending to her creative, technical side, she likes to binge on sitcoms on Netflix. She loves writing poems and reading short stories when she wants to break away from the humdrum of life.