The platform’s correspondence features can be particularly helpful for charities with part-time staffers or other instances where employees want to stay in touch while in different locations. A consolidated contact card centralizes social updates and provides one-click access to chat functions, while multi-party conferencing tools ensure your network members remain in sync. Connectivity – Microsoft Office for Nonprofits offers a robust suite of communication tools, allowing team members to stay connected with one another as well as with constituents.The nonprofit edition of Office 365 excels at a number of features that would come in handy in the bustling environment of a nonprofit, including communication and sharing features, mobile capabilities and security strengths. The Pros: Where Office 365 for Nonprofits Shines And with our Nonprofit Week of content addressing the specialized software demands of NPOs, we were admittedly curious about how Microsoft Office’s charitable product would handle all-important nonprofit tasks like donor tracking and fundraising. But with the company’s growing momentum behind its not-for-profit version, it seemed time to realistically evaluate the platform as a solution for NPOs.Īs any nonprofit director or board member knows, philanthropies require an assortment of financial, marketing and client relationship management capabilities that can be difficult to find in a single software system. It’s also common knowledge that the Office suite of products is great for a variety of daily workplace activities, capable of being manipulated in countless ways to meet particular documentation needs. As commendable as the software giant’s donation program is, we couldn’t help but ponder the all-important question: Can Microsoft Office 365 really meet the donor management needs of NPOs? Microsoft’s Foray Into the Nonprofit Sectorīy now the majority of computer users are familiar with the Windows Office platform, having employed it at one point or another to create documents, compile data or build presentation slides, among other tasks.
Last month marked the launch of Microsoft’s Office 365 for Nonprofits donation program, sending not-for-profits everywhere scrambling to sign up for free editions of leading Microsoft solutions. Welcome to ’s Nonprofit Week special! Connect with us on Twitter or Facebook to continue the conversation and receive updates on other exclusive series and events.
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