How can an organization track its ability to build social capital for clients? We worked together to review existing surveys and create a evaluation framework to measure the existence and increase of social capital for clients at a culinary training program in NYC.

When a workforce development center needs to 1) transfer all ops to a new system and 2) communicate the desired fields, workflows, reports, and vision to a vendor, Arensa comes in as a TRANSLATOR. We protect our nonprofit clients from “tech functionality promises” that sound too good to be true. We fight for features that matter and streamline requirements collection and communication to the vendor to build the best technology.

We’ve all been there. Develop asks all programs for data to tell an aggregate story for a funder or annual report. But are all programs accurately counting metrics in the same way? Arensa can help leaders review all data being reported across programs and aggregate them in a way that is consistent and credible for reporting needs.

A culinary training program was collecting disparate data on students in Salesforce, in surveys, and in paper forms. In order to create a intake→graduation timeline of their involvement, Arensa created a vision and strategy for comprehensive data capture of clients to create a “data lake” for better analysis of client behavior and outcomes in the program.

While databases are pesky tools, Arensa can happily say that we KNOW Bonterra, Salesforce, and other CRMS and we know how to make them suck less for nonprofits using them. If your organization needs help with managing the behemoth that is your database, give us a call. This is our bread and butter!

Over the past two years, we’ve noticed that the process for selecting technology for nonprofits is clouded in quick sales calls that promise a lot but tend to miss the mark on specific nonprofit functionality needs.

If you are in the market for new technology, let us help you make the smartest decision for your organization. We understand the benefits and costs of large enterprise solutions and have relationships with smaller custom tech solutions that may meet your needs at a lower cost point.