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Gary Power shared thisSurvey any #Nonprofit with more than twenty staff and you’ll almost always find the same thing: a graveyard of half-used software subscriptions. The platform a former staff member championed. The tool bought during a pandemic pivot. The license that auto-renews quietly every year. Industry research consistently finds that organizations waste 20–30% of their SaaS spend on unused or duplicative tools. For a nonprofit, that’s real money; program money. Power Consulting runs structured SaaS audits for nonprofits: what you’re paying for, who’s actually using it, what could be consolidated, and what should simply be cancelled. We then optimize the tools you keep so they deliver what you bought them for. Reclaiming a fifth of your software budget is a faster win than it sounds. Let’s find it. https://lnkd.in/eGmYXcfe
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Gary Power shared thisToday’s #NonprofitAudits look very different than they did a decade ago. Auditors ask about access controls, user permissions, system-of-record integrity, change management, and backup verification. If your finance team earns a clean opinion but your IT environment can’t substantiate the controls behind the numbers, next year’s audit will be harder. The one after that, harder still. Power Consulting partners with nonprofit finance leaders and external auditors to document the technical controls that make financial statements defensible: segregation of duties inside systems, audit logs, access reviews, and the documentation that proves everything is working. Audit-ready isn’t a quarterly scramble. It’s a year-round posture. Let’s build yours. https://lnkd.in/eGmYXcfe
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Gary Power shared thisFor most #Nonprofits, Q4 is the loudest quarter of the year. Year-end giving. Board meetings. Annual reports. Audit prep. New strategic plans. Whatever didn’t get done in Q3 piles directly on top. It's time for smart leadership team gets quiet, looks at the technology underneath the work, and asks three questions: - What’s already breaking that we’ve been tolerating? - What capacity will we need that we don’t have yet? - Which decisions do we keep deferring because we’re too busy? Power Consulting’s #vCIO service brings structure to exactly this conversation. Annual roadmap. Quarterly review. Real answers your leadership can act on now, while there’s still time. Let’s talk this month - https://lnkd.in/gXG6BHp6. Q4 will arrive whether you’re ready or not.
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Gary Power shared thisEvery firewall, filter, and security tool eventually meets the same final layer of defense: a person making a decision. Should I click this link? Should I wire this money? Should I trust this caller? For most #Nonprofits, cyber awareness training is a one-time onboarding video and an annual reminder email. Attackers count on exactly that. Power Consulting builds ongoing cyber training designed for nonprofit teams: short, scenario-based, and grounded in the threats your staff actually face, fake donor emails, board chair impersonations, urgent wire requests, grant-related phishing. A trained team turns every staff member into a security asset. Ask us about a #CyberAwareness program built for your culture. https://lnkd.in/eGmYXcfe
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Gary Power shared thisYou bought the CRM to consolidate donor records, automate stewardship, and finally see the full picture of your supporter relationships. A year later, half the staff still tracks contacts in personal spreadsheets. The reports never quite match. Duplicates multiply. No one trusts the data, so no one uses it the way you imagined. This isn’t a software problem. It’s an implementation and integration problem, and it’s one of the most common we see across #Nonprofits. Power Consulting helps nonprofits get real value from their #CRM investment: cleaning data, integrating it with email and accounting systems, building the workflows your team actually adopts, and training staff so the value compounds over time. Ready to make your CRM earn its keep? Let’s talk. https://lnkd.in/eGmYXcfe
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Gary Power shared thisYou know the one. Fan whirring on every Zoom call. Twelve minutes to boot. The staff member who inherited it has stopped complaining out loud, but quietly avoids it for anything important. Aging hardware is one of the largest hidden costs in #NonprofitOperations. Every minute waiting on a slow machine is a minute not spent on a mission. Every emergency replacement costs more than a planned refresh would have. And every device past its security update window becomes an open door for attackers. Power Consulting builds hardware lifecycle plans for nonprofits: what you have, what’s at risk, what to replace this year, what can wait, and how to fund it, often with grant-eligible equipment that costs a fraction of retail. Ask us about a hardware inventory and refresh plan. https://lnkd.in/eGmYXcfe The peace of mind is significant.
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Gary Power shared thisThere’s a security control so effective that Microsoft has reported it blocks more than 99% of automated account compromise attempts. It’s included with most of the software your #Nonprofit already pays for. It takes minutes to enable per user and most nonprofits still haven’t turned it on across every account. Multi-factor authentication isn’t a luxury control. It’s the front door lock. Without it, no other security investment delivers the value it should, because today’s attackers don’t break in. They log in with stolen credentials. Power Consulting rolls out #MFA across nonprofits in ways that don’t break workflows or frustrate staff. Done right, your team barely notices. Done wrong, you’ll hear about it for months. Let’s get this right.
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Gary Power shared thisRoughly a third of all #nonprofit donations arrive in December. Giving Tuesday alone can deliver more donation traffic than most nonprofits see in a typical month. If your donation page, CRM, or email platform buckles under that pressure, you don’t just lose transactions. You lose donors who quietly decide to give somewhere else next year. Power Consulting helps #nonprofits stress-test their giving infrastructure now, in the quieter months, so the Q4 surge feels like opportunity instead of crisis. Load testing. Integration checks. Failover planning. Quiet, deliberate work that pays off when the moment arrives. December is engineered in July. Let’s start.
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Gary Power shared thisA finance director clicks an attachment she thought came from her board chair. By Monday, every donor record, every grant deliverable, every program file is locked. A ransom note demands six figures. The insurance company has questions. The board has more. Ransomware attacks on #Nonprofits have climbed sharply in the past two years. Attackers know mission-driven teams rarely have enterprise-grade defenses, and they price accordingly. Power Consulting designs layered protection that doesn’t depend on one person making the right call at the right moment: immutable backups, endpoint detection, email filtering, and #CyberAwareness training that actually sticks. Want to know what your real ransomware exposure looks like? Start there. We’ll show you.
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