Our Story

Empower your organization with a strategic approach to technology assessments, selections, and implementations. Build Consulting specializes in helping nonprofits, associations, and foundations achieve impactful, lasting change through improved technology and data management.

Technology Change Is Organizational Change

At Build Consulting, we know that navigating technology can feel overwhelming, especially for nonprofit organizations balancing limited resources with ambitious goals. That’s why we take a different approach. To us, leveraging technology isn’t just about deploying new tools; it’s about aligning those tools with your organizational strategy, culture, and mission.

With over ten years of experience working exclusively with nonprofits, associations, and foundations, we customize every solution to ensure you get the most out of your data and technology investments.

What makes Build Consulting different?

• Nonprofit, Foundation, and Assocation Expertise: We’re former nonprofit leaders who understand your challenges from the inside out.
• Strategic Focus: We approach every project as an opportunity to enhance your organization’s impact and efficiency.
• Sustainable Solutions: Our goal isn’t only to solve today’s issues, but to create systems and strategies that will evolve with you over time.

Benefits of Partnering with Build Consulting

1. Make Data Central to Your Mission

Unlock the valuable insights hidden in your data. Whether you want to measure impact or drive targeted engagement, we help you transform data into an organizational asset.

2. Simplify Technology Decisions

Choosing the right technology is hard. Through our expert guidance, we demystify the process, ensuring you adopt tools that serve your unique goals and maximize ROI.

3. Avoid Common Pitfalls

Technology projects fail at alarming rates. Our proven technology strategy framework reduces risks, empowering your organization to succeed at every stage of the process.

4. Turn Challenges Into Opportunities

From complex technology ecosystems to scaling your reach, we’ll equip you with the technology and processes to tackle what’s next.

How We Work with Nonprofits

Our method is grounded in collaboration, transparency, and tailored action plans. Here’s what the process looks like at a high level:

1. Assess and Strategize

We take a deep look at your organization’s current technology, operations, and culture to fully understand your needs. Together, we design a clear roadmap that combines your goals with our expert recommendations.

Learn more about our Assessments and Roadmaps

2. Select

We lead vendor agnostic, impartial, change-centric technology selections that emphasize stakeholder involvement. The nonprofit, foundation, and association technology sector frequently lauds our approach because it helps our clients, and vendors, understand what makes them unique

Learn more about our Software Selections

3. Implement

We support implementations to  ensure technology solutions are deployed with strong frameworks in place, optimizing both user adoption and operational efficiency. We are guided by our extensive change management practice that, from leadership alignment to stakeholder impacts, drive adoption and return on investment in measurable, and meaningful ways.

Learn more about Implementation Support

4. CIO Leadership

Our team of virtual CIOs/fractional CIOs help ensure that your technology roadmap comes to life. We lead teams, and organizations, to help ensure that your technology strategy and organizational strategy are aligned.

Learn more about our CIO Services

5. CRM Data Management

CRM platforms hold incredible potential for improving donor engagement, streamlining processes, and scaling impact. However, unlocking these benefits begins with understanding how to approach CRM implementation and optimization strategically. Organizations often struggle to align technical workflows with their mission, leading to inefficiencies and data silos.

Learn more about CRM Data Management

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is Build Consulting just for large nonprofits?

No, we work with organizations of all sizes, from small local foundations to national associations. Every solution we offer is scaled to fit your unique needs. Here is a list of some of the organizations that we’ve worked with.

Do you only work on technology assessments and strategy?

Not at all. While technology strategy is central to what we do, it’s only the beginning. Check out our full list of Services.

How long do your projects typically take?

Project timelines vary based on scope, but rest assured, we’ll align the timeline with your organization’s priorities and capacity for change.

Empower Your Mission Today

Start turning technology challenges into opportunities with Build Consulting. We’ll help you design strategies and systems to increase impact, enhance efficiency, and future-proof your operations.

Nothing makes us happier than leveraging technology and change to make our nonprofit clients more efficient, more effective, and more sustainable. We’ve had the honor of working with over 500 great nonprofits, including: