Your program staff are doing administration instead of programs.
The grant reports need the same outcome numbers assembled four different ways for four different funders, each on its own template and its own deadline. The person best placed to write them is also the person running the programs those numbers describe.
Donor acknowledgments go out late, or in a batch, or not at all when it's busy — and the ones over $250 carry an IRS requirement, not just a courtesy. Volunteers are coordinated over text threads. None of it is anyone's actual job.
It's the work that most directly steals time from your mission, it recurs on a known calendar, and the inputs are numbers you already collect. Automating the assembly — not the judgment — gives an executive director back the evenings without any funder seeing a difference except that the report arrives earlier.
What gets automated
Reports assembled from your own numbers
Program data pulled into each funder's format automatically, so what's left is reviewing and writing the narrative rather than rebuilding a table. Every funder wants the same story told differently; the retelling is the part a machine can do.
Deadlines that chase you
Grant applications, interim reports, and renewal windows tracked with escalating reminders, and the required attachments listed against each one so nothing is discovered missing the night before.
Donor acknowledgments, same day
Gifts acknowledged promptly and personally, with the substantiation language a donor needs for gifts of $250 or more included as standard. Fast and correct, without anyone remembering to do it.
Volunteer coordination that isn't a group text
Sign-ups, shift reminders, and no-show follow-ups handled automatically, with hours logged as they happen so the volunteer numbers in your next report are already there.
Price
Typical pilot: $2,500–$4,000. Non-profit budgets are real and I price accordingly — if a project matters and the number doesn't work, tell me and we'll talk about scope rather than pretending the price is fixed by nature.
Fixed-price, agreed before work starts. If the pilot doesn't deliver what we scoped, you don't pay the final invoice. Full pricing →
When this isn't worth it
All-volunteer organizations without paid administrative staff are usually better served by better use of the free tools they already have. I'll happily point you at those on a call rather than sell you a build you don't need.