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What’s the messiest process at your nonprofit right now?

  • May 15, 2026
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Pello
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I feel like every nonprofit has at least one process that still somehow lives across spreadsheets, emails, forms, WhatsApp messages, and pure hope 😅

 

Could be:

  • monitoring & evaluation data
  • linking qualitative + quantitative data
  • donor reporting (for multiple donors..)
  • grants management
  • budget tracking (with complex co-financing structures)
  • portfolio management
  • volunteer coordination
  • partnership tracking
  • impact reporting
  • ..

 

Curious what’s currently the “there has to be a better way to do this” process at your organization?

 

And if you’re already using Airtable for it:

What’s working well, and what still feels messy/manual?

 

Would love to hear how different teams are approaching this stuff.

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Chris_Moore
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  • May 15, 2026

Hey Pello!

Airtable is currently only a departmental tool, sadly, so I’ve got a lot on my list that would match your description. 😅 For my team, though, yearly budgeting is one of those headaches that refuses to quit. 

One of the Airtable processes that continues to give me headaches, though, relates to our artifact swaps. We’ve gotten good at defining that process and have made templates to be able to do so (except for those ad-hoc projects that come out of left field), but I’m currently the only person that can really make these different projects + tasks because it’s just… fiddly. It would be easier if we had a Business plan instead of a Team plan (I think), but 95% of the time we don’t need that tier of capability. 

Honestly, as long as I’m here, my team is just fine. It’s just an issue when I want to pass off tasks to other team members that it becomes a struggle. 😅

How about you? Where are your sticking points?