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> Managed IT for nonprofits in Greater Hartford, CT.
We help small and mid-sized 501(c)(3)s run modern, secure technology — without the enterprise price tag, and without the surprise bills that torpedo a grant cycle.
01 // who_we_serve
Who we work with
Small and mid-sized nonprofits across Greater Hartford and central Connecticut — typically 5 to 100 staff, often a mix of employees, contractors, volunteers, and seasonal program workers. If that sounds like your organization, we're built for you.
Social service agencies
Human services, behavioral health, domestic violence response, housing, workforce development. Client case files, hotlines, and 24/7 intake systems that have to stay up.
Community foundations
Grantmaking operations, donor-advised fund administration, board portals, and the reporting infrastructure grantees and auditors expect.
Educational nonprofits
After-school programs, literacy organizations, museums, and private schools. Student data, program outcomes tracking, and compliance with program funder requirements.
Arts & cultural orgs
Theaters, galleries, historical societies, and performing arts nonprofits. Donor CRM, ticketing integrations, and seasonal staffing patterns that break standard IT assumptions.
02 // what_changes
What's different when you serve nonprofits
A lot of MSPs treat a nonprofit like a small business with a funny tax status. It isn't. The funding model is different, the reporting obligations are different, the risk posture is different, and the licensing economics are dramatically different. We actually know the difference.
M365 nonprofit licensing — TechSoup + Business Premium
We take care of TechSoup registration and Microsoft donation validation. Most qualifying nonprofits get Microsoft 365 Business Premium for Nonprofits — the same license a commercial client pays full price for — either free (up to 10 users) or at roughly 75% off the commercial rate. We activate it, maintain it, and apply the same security baseline we use for every other client.
Compliance for funders and auditors
Grantmakers and auditors increasingly ask how you protect beneficiary data, who has access to what, and what happens when a staff member leaves. We produce the documentation, access reviews, audit trails, and written policies that answer those questions — and we keep them current, not dusted off once a year when the auditor shows up.
Donor and beneficiary data protection
Donor lists, CRM records, client case files, PII tied to service delivery — this is the data that a breach would actually hurt. We layer security from identity to endpoint: Conditional Access, MFA, EDR, DNS filtering, privilege controls, DLP policies, and cloud-to-cloud backup of every piece of M365 data three times a day.
Budget realism — built around the grant cycle
Your budget is line-itemed and approved by a board months before the fiscal year starts. Our pricing is flat and predictable — no hourly billing, no per-ticket charges, nothing that lands outside the number you presented. When we propose a project, we propose it with a fixed price, a fixed scope, and a phased plan that fits the funding reality you actually have.
Volunteer & seasonal staff workflows
Onboarding a summer intern or a volunteer cohort shouldn't require the same lift as hiring a full-time employee. We build staged access workflows — time-limited accounts, program-specific groups, easy revocation — that fit the way nonprofit staffing actually flows.
// lets_go
Let's talk about your nonprofit.
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