Authors  

Amadie Hart, Lead Researcher  

Amadie Hart is a contract writer and researcher for Tech Impact and president of Hart Strategic Marketing LLC. She has a wide range of experience helping nonprofits assess their needs, select software to meet them, and engage audiences and constituents. She has extensively researched a wide range of nonprofit technology topics, including donor and grants management systems, project management tools, social media decision-making, and digital literacy, and brings her experience and expertise with organizations of all sizes and missions to bear on our work.    

Chris Bernard, Editor  

Chris was previously the managing editor for Tech Impact and the editorial director for Idealware, in which capacity he worked on every past edition of this guide as well as a wide range of other nonprofit technology publications. Currently he’s the managing editor of eWeek magazine, where he oversees a team of writers covering a wide range of enterprise technology topics, including AI.   

Peter Schiano, Project Manager  

Peter is a senior consultant at Tech Impact. His work with nonprofits includes developing technology plans, acting as virtual CIO, guiding application selection projects and coaching nonprofits in their use of Salesforce.   

Working Group  

This report would not be possible without the input, expertise, and effort of our working group:  

• Gozi Egbounu, Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG)  

• C. Davis Fischer, PEAK Grantmaking  

• Kyle Renninger, PEAK Grantmaking  

• Tierney Smith, Grantbook  

• Jean Westrick, Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG)    

Contributors  

We’re grateful for the input and generosity of the subject matter experts who volunteered their time and shared their thoughts with us for this edition of the guide:  

• Mike Scoville and Eric Aquino, akoyaGO  

• Alison Janette and Janet Camarena, Candid  

• Chantal Forster, former Executive Director, Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG)  

• Roberto Cremonini and Eric Jones, GivingData  

• Ursula Stewart, Salesforce  

• Sam Caplan, Submittable  

  

About Tech Impact  

Tech Impact is a nonprofit that leverages technology to advance social impact. Our proven workforce development programs deliver highly impactful IT and Customer Service training that foster individual growth, economic mobility, and a more diverse talent pool. Through our full-spectrum technology services, we support nonprofits with the expertise, support, and resources they need to use technology to deliver greater impact and help their communities thrive.     

 

About Grantbook  

Grantbook is a strategic tech consultancy exclusively serving philanthropy. We help grantmakers like you transform and optimize your change operations—the suite of people, process, data, and tech that empowers changemakers around the world to achieve their full potential.      

Whether you’re a private, community, government, or corporate funder doing your good through grants, scholarships, donor-advised funds, or impact investing, our team of philanthropy nerds will help make your ‘how’ less burdensome, so you and your changemakers can feel more connected to your ‘why.’      

At the end of the day, choosing to work with Grantbook is about much more than implementing systems, or tapping into best practices from your funder peers around the globe. It’s about investing in people—both your people and the changemakers you serve—so you can harness the catalytic power of operational excellence and maximize daring change, together. Ready for a better way to do good?  

  

About PEAK Grantmaking  

PEAK Grantmaking is a vibrant, growing community of philanthropy professionals coming together to transform philanthropy through equitable grantmaking practices. Our core membership of grants management professionals is uniquely positioned to lead the way as change agents and influencers for internal practice changes that best support nonprofits and see them as true partners. Learn more at peakgrantmaking.org.  

  

About TAG