Hi folks!
Our very first Nonprofit build along event was such a blast, the chat was one of the most active Airtable has ever seen. 
So we want to hear from you: what should we cover next?
A few ideas we're kicking around:
Grant management and reporting
Volunteer coordination and scheduling
Impact and outcome tracking
Connecting Airtable to your other tools (Mailchimp, QuickBooks, etc.)
Drop a comment with the one you'd find most useful, or tell us about a process at your org that still feels messy and we'll see if we can build a session around it.
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What event would you want to see next?
+13One topic I'd find incredibly valuable is sponsorship and partner relationship management. As a growing nonprofit, we're looking for better ways to track the entire sponsor journey: identifying prospects, managing outreach, documenting interactions, tracking commitments, fulfilling benefits, sharing impact reports, and monitoring renewal opportunities.
I'd love to see how Airtable can be structured as a lightweight CRM for sponsors and community partners, especially when integrated with tools like Mailchimp and QuickBooks.
I would love to see a grants tracking system, perhaps one where we can see how it can link to the Sponsor/Donor system you built last week. I would also love to learn more about automations. I get stuck often at automations and find that little mistakes will cause blockages.
+7i’m currently wrestling with pre & post surveys for our training events, how to build a dynamic system where you can tell it which questions go with which training & fillout builds the form based on those options, WITHOUT using AI. i actually want to learn how to do it, and i don’t want to contribute to the push for more massive data centers that steal water from communities already pushed to the margins.
Grants Management would be great!
+13One topic I'd find incredibly valuable is sponsorship and partner relationship management. As a growing nonprofit, we're looking for better ways to track the entire sponsor journey: identifying prospects, managing outreach, documenting interactions, tracking commitments, fulfilling benefits, sharing impact reports, and monitoring renewal opportunities.
I'd love to see how Airtable can be structured as a lightweight CRM for sponsors and community partners, especially when integrated with tools like Mailchimp and QuickBooks.
Yeah, I love this one. Sponsor and partner management comes up a lot, and Airtable handles it really well.
The thing most orgs miss is that the whole journey you listed is really one record moving through stages. Prospect, outreach, committed, fulfilling benefits, renewal. When it lives on one linked record, you stop losing track of who promised what. That's usually where the messy data starts, when those stages are split across a spreadsheet and someone's inbox.
And the Mailchimp and QuickBooks piece is doable! You can sync contacts out and pull payment status back in, so there's no double entry. I do have to say QBO is a bit of a doosy from an integration perspective.
+13I would love to see a grants tracking system, perhaps one where we can see how it can link to the Sponsor/Donor system you built last week. I would also love to learn more about automations. I get stuck often at automations and find that little mistakes will cause blockages.
We're planning for a grant management webinar in july! Keep an eye out for the sign up page! :)
+13I would love to see a grants tracking system, perhaps one where we can see how it can link to the Sponsor/Donor system you built last week. I would also love to learn more about automations. I get stuck often at automations and find that little mistakes will cause blockages.
We're planning for a grant management webinar in july! Keep an eye out for the sign up page! :)
+22Volunteer coordination and scheduling!
Ooh, Airtable can be really handy for this. My first baby steps into AT 5 or 6 years ago was replacing SignUpGenius for our museum docent program.
As always there are variables depending on your needs (and the ability to build your own thing that fits exactly your needs is what makes Airtable so great) but what I needed was something that let very tech un-inclined folks easily sign up for tours, preferably multiple at once (so not repeat form entries). The system I built (years ago so I’m sure it could be improved these days), had me create tour shifts individually, then a view filtered those shifts to ones that were in the future and did not have a registered guide. Then an Airtable form was fed by that view. The docents needed to just keep that one URL form link for all future tours (we walked through bookmarking it haha). I also set an email confirmation that automatically emailed them when they signed up, and another one that was a 2 day prior reminder (which many of them would respond to haha).
At one point I think I even scaled up a bit a made a password protected page on our Wordpress website that was the “Docent Hub” and included the form and a colorized calendar view embedded. This was all years ago and there are smoother additions since then (this might have been pre-interfaces tbh) but it worked great.
I am looking to build a grant tracker. We need to be able to enter things like cost and see the spend down but also be able to pull something and submit to the grantor for reimbursement. I think the grant reporting webinar gave me an idea on how i can do SOME of that but a more specific webinar would be useful.
+13I am looking to build a grant tracker. We need to be able to enter things like cost and see the spend down but also be able to pull something and submit to the grantor for reimbursement. I think the grant reporting webinar gave me an idea on how i can do SOME of that but a more specific webinar would be useful.
Hi
I haven’t started, I just began working here and i have been shown several grant tracker built in excel but none of them fit all of their needs. I have been pointed to characteristics of each they like that they would like combined into one and based on what I am seeing AT i think it would be a more suitable solution and that we are under utilizing it as a resource.
Some things being asked of it are links to the actual grant, the ability to enter tasks and their costs ability to see the spend down, entering simple details such as start date end dates, contacts, pulling reports for vouchering...
+13I haven’t started, I just began working here and i have been shown several grant tracker built in excel but none of them fit all of their needs. I have been pointed to characteristics of each they like that they would like combined into one and based on what I am seeing AT i think it would be a more suitable solution and that we are under utilizing it as a resource.
Some things being asked of it are links to the actual grant, the ability to enter tasks and their costs ability to see the spend down, entering simple details such as start date end dates, contacts, pulling reports for vouchering...
Hi
For the grant management base, you can start with creating the following tables:
1. Potential Grants - all grants including ones you are researching/considering. You can include links here
2. Awarded grants - once you’ve been awarded a grant, you can add it here. Contracts can go here.
3. Task - linked ot awarded grants
4. Contacts
5. Expenses - this is where you log all expenses and link them to an awarded grant.
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