Technology that serves the mission.
Most nonprofits run six to twelve systems that don’t talk to each other, and someone fills the gaps by hand. We connect them, take over the busywork and stay with you as staff and volunteers change, from a local food pantry to an international society with member centers in more than 50 countries.
Where we help
Five areas where nonprofits and associations bring us in. Start with the one that’s slowing you down most.
Systems & technology integration
Accounting, donor, membership, event and learning systems, bought at different times for different reasons. We connect the ones you already pay for, so information is entered once, members get one login and reports pull from everything at once. A legacy database such as FileMaker Pro moves to the web without losing your data or the way you work.
Case study: Statewide Community Mental Health Association
Marketing & storytelling
We sit down with your staff, board and volunteers to find the stories that show your impact, then build a website that tells them clearly and works for everyone who visits, including people using assistive technology. From there we help you get the word out: search, accurate listings on Google and the maps people use, email that keeps donors and members close, and social media that shares your wins.
Case study: Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
Growth & capacity
Start with one process somebody does by hand every month, prove the hours it gives back, then grow only where it pays. Each piece is scoped and approved on its own, and upgrades can follow your annual budget cycle instead of one large contract up front.
Case study: Michigan Assisted Living Association
Operational support & compliance
Patient and client records that meet HIPAA and current security standards, security reviews and fixes for aging websites, and a way out when a critical database lives on one desktop, one server or with one person.
Case study: Vermont Free & Referral Clinics
Fundraising enablement
Donations and event registration on a standard payment gateway, so you choose your merchant provider and stop paying per-registration fees. Donation and event reports are ready when you need them, without the manual work.
Case study: Open Door Outreach Center
How we work with nonprofits
Every nonprofit is run a little differently: by paid staff, volunteers, committees, members, or all of them at once. We build around how yours works.
Everyone at the table
We hold planning meetings with your board, director, staff and volunteers, then work program by program with the people who run each one. By launch, the whole organization has had a say, and that buy-in shows in how the work gets used.
Proposals your board can act on
We’re happy to meet with a committee, a board or a single representative, develop an initial proposal with you, and present it at a committee or board meeting.
Here when people change
When staff or volunteers move on, we step in, for a while or for good, keep things running and train whoever takes over. Nobody gets locked out of your own website.
From local clubs to national organizations
We work with small local clubs and large national organizations alike, and look for partnerships that last. Some of ours are more than a decade old.
Nonprofit case studies
NonprofitExtracorporeal Life Support OrganizationA website project that grew into a 14-year partnership
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NonprofitMichigan Assisted Living AssociationOne login, one eLearning system, and membership on autopilot
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NonprofitVermont Free & Referral ClinicsA secure patient database built around how each clinic works
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IGD is the only company that really looked at our site and understood the underlying structure it needed to work properly. They didn’t just think about how to make it look great, but also how to make it easy to update and expand as our needs changed. We loved working with IGD because of the personal touch. Our project manager always made us feel like our site was the most important project that she and her team were working on, helping us really think about our end users when making decisions.