Nonprofit Data Consulting & AI Implementation Services
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What Real Nonprofits Say About Our Data Consulting Services
“For me, we are all doing this work because we are mission-driven and trying to help the people we serve in concrete and measurable ways. For us to ensure that we are actually delivering on our mission and to help us improve, the data and the analysis are crucial.”
- Kirsten Olson, CEO, Children and Families First
“Data is just data, but when we can convert our data into more tangible information, it not only helps us to make better decisions from the community we serve, but it helps our team, our supporters, and our funders know the impact they are having and to truly see themselves as part of a solution.”
- Dave Ford, COO, REACH Riverside
We Understand Nonprofits, Because We Are One
We support organizations from hyper-local, two-person teams to international, multi-location NGOs. As a nonprofit ourselves, we are uniquely qualified to understand the circumstances, requirements, and goals of social impact nonprofits.
We are committed to providing affordable rates and a team of individuals motivated by the greater good.
Services Details, Costs, and Timelines
Many nonprofits use disparate systems to track financial information, funding sources, and a variety of programs. Tech Impact's Data Strategy Project is designed to help nonprofits document their data management and reporting needs across the organization and provide a data management strategy that provides recommended architecture, workflows, data mapping and reporting tools that the organization can use to implement the solutions.
Service Details
The engagement uses a standard data consulting approach that includes:
The Initiation Phase establishes the project logistics, reviews methodology, determines client project manager and team as well as confirms scope.
In the Discovery & Mapping Phase, Tech Impact will understand the organization's program and business requirements and document existing systems and data flows. This phase includes group meetings and individual interviews with key staff plus technical investigation of systems. Tech Impact will require access to systems in some cases. From this discovery, Tech Impact will develop an inventory of your current data systems and diagram how information flows within and between each department with an analysis of your current data systems gaps and overlaps will be completed.
The final Recommendation Phase combines the information learned during interviews and data mapping, with market research that draws on our extensive experience with non-profit organizations and the systems they use to identify possible data architectures that will meet the organization's needs.
Timeline
This service spans 8 - 10 weeks based on meeting frequency. The timeline assumes that all resource, meeting and access requests are all met within 2 weeks of the date they are made.
Tech Impact will collaborate with you and your stakeholders to create a single Power BI report with up to 6 visualizations to act as a proof of concept for Power BI use in your organization. This report will help you address key reporting challenges by allowing you to visualize key metrics, make informed decisions, and effectively demonstrate your impact, using this business intelligence tool. At the end of the project you will be able determine the value of extending its use within your organization.
The goal of this project is to create a report using the Power BI visualization capabilities, test the data connection to a key data source, determine the appropriate Power BI licenses for sharing the report, either by setting up a workspace or public link, and train one of your resources on the fundamentals of Power BI. By the end of this project, you will have one Power BI report, containing up to 6 visualizations.
Service Details
Tech Impact's Data Specialist will work with the organization's point of contact to provide education about Power BI and the project, gather necessary reporting requirements for up to 6 visualizations, and understand the existing data sources involved in the project. The project has three phases:
Discovery
During the discovery phase, meetings will be held to review the existing data that will be used to drive the report. This will involve defining the objective of the proof of concept, looking at existing reports, KPI definition, understanding where the underlying data resides, and sketching out the potential visualizations. This stage will create the basis for the report build.
Deployment
The deployment phase is when data connections are tested and made to the data sources, data is imported to the Power BI report, queries are built within the report and visualization are created. This step also includeds determining the publishing and sharing requirements which will drive long term licensing costs. At the end of this phase, the Power BI report will be complete.
Training
Training will include training for the tool administrator, teaching them how to modify, filter and refresh the created report.
Tech Impact also offers Ongoing Support services to help you deepen your use of Power BI and expand it beyond this one proof of concept report.
Timeline
This service spans 6 weeks.
Whether you need support with grant funded programs or research-focused projects, our evaluation team can help equip your organization with the resources necessary to measure and communicate your social impact
By building the right tools and knowledge, organizations improve their decision-making capabilities and can articulate their work through a social impact framework.
Learn more about our evaluation and impact strategy work, including our service offerings and project details, here.
Microsoft Power Automate is a powerful tool that can automate a wide range of function and reduce the time and effort required from users. Tech Impact's team of Cloud Engineers can help you build custom workflows that free up users' time to focus on more strategic and value-add activities.
Learn more about our automation work, including our service offerings and project details, here.
The Data Lab's services help nonprofits, foundations, and governments leverage data to make more informed decisions to better serve their community. No matter your data maturity, through a comprehensive suite of services, our team of Data Scientists, Engineers, and Front-End Developers are committed to supporting social impact work.
Learn more about our Advanced Analytics and AI work, including our service offerings and project details, here.
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Nonprofit Data Consulting & AI Services
Nonprofits have leveraged AI in various capacities over the past several years to increase efficiency in manual tasks and free up time for higher-level activities like strategy development and relationship-building. As of a 2026 survey, the most popular nonprofit AI use cases include:
- Donor communications (62% of respondents)
- Marketing and social media content creation (60%)
- Email and creative work supplementing (60%)
- Data analysis and reporting (42%)
- Internal operational automation (24%)
However, the same study showed that while 92% of nonprofits use AI in some way, only 7% have seen major impacts from it, pointing to a gap between AI adoption and strategy that an experienced technology partner (like Tech Impact!) can help fill.
The Tech Impact team is well-versed in many nonprofit AI and data management solutions and can help your organization set up and maintain platforms like:
- Microsoft 365 (including Dynamics, SharePoint, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot, and other tools)
- Google Workspace (with its Gemini integrations)
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Tableau
- Salesforce
If your nonprofit needs advice on which of these platforms to choose, we’re happy to help!
Tech Impact will work with your organization to establish or improve its data governance and AI usage policies, ensuring your practices align with all relevant data protection laws and prevent constituent data from being used publicly without consent. Pairing our AI and data consulting with one of our low-cost tech assessments or our cybersecurity audit and implementation services is especially helpful for adding an extra layer of security to your approach, too.
Yes! Data cleanup, standardization, and system integration are core first steps in our consulting process. Since Tech Impact is itself a nonprofit, our team understands how easily nonprofit data can become disorganized, as well as the best ways to clean it up and keep it in order.