Nonprofit Technology Solutions
Nonprofits have many competing tasks to handle, from fundraising to volunteer management to accomplishing your mission, and you need tools that help you do all this efficiently and effectively. Finding and managing the right tech is often challenging and time-consuming.
The Rooted Team has a combined 200+ years of nonprofit technology experience. As your nonprofit technology partner, we will assist your nonprofit with system assessments, implementing the right systems, and providing you with IT and App Development to suit your goals. We free up your staff, allowing their focus to be on your mission, while ensuring you have the right tools and systems, and are well-supported, trained, and secure to fully utilize them.
Richard Doe, Executive Director, Arizona Private Education Scholarship Fund.
"The Rooted team has been a huge blessing to our organization. Some vendors can often feel like a burden, but this group is a pleasure to work with as they enhance the things we want to accomplish in a positive and professional manner. Rooted feels like an arm of our team, even though they are remote and not here in person with us! Highly recommend!"
We serve nonprofits with technology in the following ways:
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Nonprofit Outsourced IT
Nonprofits must have reliable technology tools and affordable IT support, with intentional security controls to accomplish their mission most effectively and safely. Our Managed IT provides ongoing maintenance and monitoring of your computers, mobile devices, and cloud services and data. Our dedicated team of support technicians are available to handle your support request with kindness and intentionality, freeing up your internal staff. We’ll get to know your team personally as we serve you by phone, email, and tickets - or on-site. We are considerably less expensive than relying on internal IT staff. We take care of your collaboration tools: email, chat, files - managing, securing, and backing up your critical data in Microsoft 365 or Google Business Apps - and training your staff on the tools available. We also handle infrastructure support of your network and servers, keeping you connected, and your data accessible and secure.
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Systems Assessments and Selections
Nonprofits have a suite of systems that ‘should’ work seamlessly together. From your donor management system or CRM, to your accounting tool, online giving, email marketing, check scanning, volunteer and grant management software - we help you ensure that your technology tools work seamlessly together, preventing double data entry between siloed systems. We’ll meet with your team to analyze your systems’ requirements and pain points, and to consider which systems should be either consolidated or integrated. We will then evaluate and recommend the options to improve your overall systems landscape, and create a clear, affordable gameplan. We provide a ‘Core Systems Assessment’ of all your systems, or a System Selection to replace specific tools as needed. We understand that no two nonprofits are alike, so we take the time, to understand your unique challenges to offer you tailor-made advice.
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Virtuous CRM Consulting
Virtuous provides a powerful, user friendly ecosystem of tools to serve a wide range of non-profits with an excellent tool for effective donor management and engagement. The suite includes systems and carefully designed future-proof tools for CRM, Online Fundraising, Email Marketing, Volunteer, Grant and Event management, all in one suite. Successfully implementing, carefully integrating, and fully leveraging Virtuous CRM is no easy feat, since changes and data migration even to the best systems is often a large project that touches many or all teams, business processes and data. As a Premium Virtuous Partner, Rooted has extensive experience to serve with implementing and fully utilizing Virtuous. We are excited to come alongside your nonprofit long-term with highly complex data migrations, data hygiene improvements, custom integrations, business process consulting, and more.
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Web and Mobile App Development
Many nonprofits need custom mobile apps for ministry and donor relations, or media publishing, to help communicate and collaborate effectively. Our mobile and web app development team builds beautiful, reliable, well tested Mobile and Web Apps. Our team of developers is US based, and speaks in a language that makes sense across nonprofits! We build apps that integrate with your other systems, making your existing content and data accessible. For brand new apps, we start with a UI/UX design process to build out the screens and features you need in a beautiful prototype. Once this is completed and signed off, we begin our build, test and delivery process. We ensure your team is satisfied that we are intentionally meeting your requirements both during the building process until launch. Then, we offer long-term support and maintenance of apps, and collaborate closely with any internal IT teams if needed.
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Custom Integrations
When applications that have similar data (like donors or gifts) do not communicate automatically, it causes tedious manual duplicate data entry, and creates a high risk of data not being kept up to date and in sync across systems. Nonprofits need donor and financial data shared across varied systems including online fundraising, CRM, email marketing, accounting, volunteer and grant management, event tracking, and your website. Where possible we help you select systems that already talk to each other or are consolidated into one. But sometimes needed automatic system integrations do not yet exist. Rooted creates custom one-way or two-way integrations between software systems. We connect applications carefully, taking care of data hygiene to build reliable connections between apps. This in turn keeps your processes efficient, your data clean and up-to-date, and gives your team hours back a month.