Microsoft Elevate Partner Community
Welcome to a community where Microsoft Elevate Partners lead with purpose and drive meaningful impact across the nonprofit sector. Every day, nonprofits work to protect rainforests, rescue animals, support children, and strengthen communities around the world. Through Microsoft Elevate, you are empowered to help these organizations achieve more—by applying your expertise, solutions, and services where they matter most. With more than 14 million eligible nonprofits globally, this purpose-driven sector represents a powerful opportunity to grow your business while advancing social good. As a Microsoft Elevate partner, you play a critical role in helping nonprofits modernize operations, strengthen security, adopt AI and cloud innovation, and make the most of limited resources. Together, we enable organizations to operate more efficiently, scale their impact, and stay secure in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. This is more than a go-to-market motion. Nonprofits rely on the same enterprise-grade technology as commercial organizations—and they depend on Microsoft and the Elevate partner ecosystem to guide their digital transformation. The work you do today helps transform lives, empower communities, and create lasting global impact. By engaging through Microsoft Elevate, you unlock new growth opportunities while fostering pride, purpose, and fulfillment within your team. Together, we’ve supported over 400,000 nonprofit organizations with modern, secure, and scalable Microsoft cloud solutions. Let’s continue building a connected ecosystem—where Microsoft Elevate partners, technology, and purpose come together to drive real-world change. Let’s make an impact. Together. Resources and Links Subscribe to receive Microsoft Elevate Partner Newsletters to stay up to date. Access the Nonprofit Partner Readiness site to review partner only resources. Visit the Microsoft Elevate Nonprofit Partner Desk to grow your nonprofit business. Follow Microsoft for Nonprofit on LinkedIn.
Fundraising and Engagement solution will be retired
Hi Have there been any partner announcements for the retirement of Fundraising and Engagement? This is from a F&E customer's post on LinkedIn (not the best way for a Partner to find out the news!): Fundraising and Engagement will be retired Microsoft remains committed to providing affordable and relevant technology and skilling to nonprofit organizations worldwide. As we continue to innovate and enhance our technology offerings, we are making strategic updates to our suite of solutions. Notably, the Fundraising and Engagement solution will be retired, with technical support concluding at 11:59 PM PT (US) on December 31, 2026. As of July 15, 2024, Microsoft will continue providing necessary security updates, but will not make additional enhancements to Fundraising and Engagement. Between July 15, 2024, and December 31, 2026, you can continue to use Fundraising and Engagement, apply security updates as they are made available from Microsoft, and receive technical support from Microsoft. After December 31, 2026, Microsoft will no longer implement security updates for Fundraising and Engagement, and there will be no further technical support for the solution. What action should your organization take? We want to ensure that all customers have a successful path forward on the Microsoft Cloud for their organizational fundraising needs. Customers currently using Fundraising and Engagement should work with their Microsoft Partner to identify the future configuration of Dynamics 365 Sales needed to meet their specific needs. If your organization does not have a Microsoft Partner, you can find a partner with knowledge of the Fundraising and Engagement solution at Microsoft.com/nonprofits. Alternatively, customers can explore Microsoft partner solutions for donor management and fundraising built on Dynamics 365 Sales that have been specifically designed for customers transitioning from Fundraising and Engagement, including solutions from Barhead, mhance, and SylogistMission CRM. More solutions will be coming soon in the Partner solutions area of Solution Center. If you have questions about these changes, please contact your Microsoft account team, your Microsoft Partner, or use this form to contact us. Sincerely, Microsoft Tech for Social Impact TeamHappy Azure Week! Sept 30 - Oct 04 2024
Join Tech for Social Impact as we kick off Azure week. We will be posting a new item every day to the Microsoft for Nonprofits LinkedIn channel. TSI Partner September Monthly Newsletter featuring Azure Landing Zone for Nonprofits TSI Wednesday October 01 LinkedIn post TSI Tuesday October 01 LinkedIn post TSI Azure week LinkedIn kickoff postRelease of hot fix for Fundraising and Engagement solution
Hello Partners- We want to make you aware of the release of a Fundraising and Engagement update (Dynamics 365 only, version 2.5.3.1) that mitigates issues around Transaction and Payment scheduling. The published documentation can be found here: What's new in Fundraising and Engagement September 11, 2024 - Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit | Microsoft Learn Important to remember: Fundraising and Engagement is being retired. Support for Fundraising and Engagement will end at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on December 31, 2026. For more information, go to What’s new in Fundraising and Engagement. Thanks!
Contacts related to Organizations, Schools, and Employers in Microsoft for Non-Profit
One of the requests from a client is to relate Contacts to an Employer, School, and/or Organizations. We are debating between using stand-alone custom table(s) or just the OOTB Account table. We know Fundraising & Engagement already has this concept built in but only for Organizations. We want to make sure we are keeping in mind native functionality when deciding on whether or not to use OOTB or our own custom table. For more context: We would be leveraging the msnfp_accounttype choice column on the Account table, and extending it from the existing choice values to also include School and Organization. As each Contact could have a different “Accounts” for each of School/Organization/Employer, we will be configuring custom lookups to hold each of these potential distinct relationships between a single Contact and one or more Accounts. We're also curious to know if there is anything in place that we're missing or anything in the future pipeline for MC4NP / Fundraising & Engagement that could impact our decision.
Not able to install Volunteer Engagement
I have already installed Power Pages Core and Volunteer Management but getting the below error while trying to install Volunteer Engagement. The deployment tool is complaining about Power Apps Portal but this solution is not available anymore and I believe it was replaced by Power Pages core. Anyone have any idea of what I need to install to get around this?Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in one week!
Hello Partners! The Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit is happening in Bellevue, WA next week. If you aren't attending in person, you can still attend virtually! Register here with the code VIRTUAL: aka.ms/nonprofitsummit/virtual Whether you are attending in person or virtually, you're invited to join us in the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit discussion space in the Nonprofit Community. This space was created for event attendees (in person and virtual) to connect with each other, discuss news and continue the conversation following sessions at the summit. If you've already registered, head over to the Nonprofit Community and join the conversation! We're excited to connect with everyone as the event gets closer. Be sure to also join our Partners for social impact (non-profit) discussion board to keep up to date on the latest announcements and discussions.Architecture Documentation
I am starting to work on MC4N and wanted to ask: 1.) Is there any architecture documentation for the entire end to end solution around MC4N? I am looking to see how different areas connect to each other especially when it comes to payment processing. It would also be helpful to understand the relational database design of all custom tables 2.) Is there a separate document or MS learning path for learning portal capabilities for MC4N? I noticed all documentation around the model driven app but I am interested in seeing the functionality available on the portal to an actual volunteer or a donor? Ex: Donor wants to make a pledge or donate on the portal, is that possible?
Register for new partner sales bootcamps
Discover how you can better sell and position Microsoft cloud solutions to customers. Microsoft Sales Bootcamps are a multi-day sales training led by Microsoft sales specialists. These in-depth sessions focus on providing advanced knowledge for selling the four Microsoft Cloud solution areas. Viewing this on-demand content and attending upcoming live events will help learners become proficient at starting sales conversations, solving customer challenges, pitching Microsoft cloud value, and overcoming objections by showcasing real-time customer benefits. Register now to view on-demand content and to be notified when new events become available. Sales Bootcamp (on24.com)Sign up for the Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit: Likelihood to Donate Model Partner Private Preview
We are currently accepting applications from partners interested in learning more about the potential of AI to optimize fundraising initiatives. Nonprofits, especially those currently using Fundraising and Engagement, are invited to the private preview opportunity. As part of this preview, select partners will work with our engineering team to install and test the new model. The goal of the preview is to provide user and model feedback, occurring during August and September. Interested? To apply for the preview, please fill out this form.
