We raised more money than ever before in 2015 to support free and low cost services to nonprofits across our state, including providing 57 organizations with a $500 grant for services – thanks to the Satterberg Foundation. Organizations used those grants to improve their technology, pay for participation in one of our action-learning programs, address critical HR issues, and more.

With 97 consultants and other nonprofit specialists in the Nonprofit Resource Directory, we’re at an all-time high for participants. Visits to our website also set new records with more than 95,000 sessions, with Resource Directory pages being the most popular destination. That’s a 15 percent increase in website traffic, continuing a growth trend of many years.

Many of our services are available at all times to people throughout the state and we had contracted projects in 17 counties in 2015. However, our Nonprofit Advisory Services are particularly helpful to people in smaller cities and rural areas. Last year our staff members provided advisory services, handling 444 combined cases. This excludes “on the spot” assistance we provided at several conferences and through our day-to-day contact with nonprofits.

We are working to close the gap between the kind of technology available to businesses and what is available to nonprofits to help them be more productive and have better access to data. Here’s what our growing Technology Services staff and subcontractors were up to in 2015: