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Microsoft Launches Cloud-Based Dynamics CRM for Nonprofits and NGOs

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

Microsoft has launched Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a cloud-based solution for nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), offering those groups tools to help with managing campaigns as well as donations and pledges, basic membership management, basic volunteer tracking and support for online payment solutions.

The software is available to those organizations as a cloud-based solution through Dynamics CRM Online. Pricing for qualifying nonprofits and NGOs is $9.99 per user, per month. Microsoft said it will customize solutions for those groups free of charge.

"Nonprofits and NGOs are always challenged with doing more with less," said Sarah Barnhart, senior program manager of community affairs at Microsoft, in a statement. "We see technology being a key enabler of helping nonprofits to reduce administration and focus their resources on where they can have the biggest impact. Microsoft Dynamics CRM for nonprofits and NGOs includes customized features that simplify administration and management for organizations of every size."

Microsoft said Dynamics CRM helps nonprofits and NGOs by consolidating their critical data information in one place, helping them:

  • Access information and improving constituent insight and management. Everyone in the organization, no matter where they work, can access constituent information.
  • Collaborate. People across an organization can be more productive because they can share information.
  • Comply with accounting, tax and reporting guidelines. The software streamlines business processes and compliance procedures.
  • Reduces IT costs and helps improve security.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for nonprofits and NGOs is available in the U.S. and Canada.

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.

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