7 ways to strengthen nonprofit collaboration

A recent survey found that 64% of workers said they lost three or more hours every week due to poor collaboration. That’s a massive impact on your time and productivity, and this alone is enough to make any savvy nonprofit team pay attention.

Effective nonprofit collaboration has a positive impact beyond your immediate team, too. Studies show that team collaboration in the workplace can drive a 41% increase in customer (or donor) satisfaction. When your team works more effectively together, everyone wins.

Thankfully, you don’t need to look far to find your ideal communication tool. Discover seven ways  Givebutter can help you and your team work better together to stay organized, engage donors, and drive donations.

Meet the nonprofit collaboration tool that brings your team together

At Givebutter, we believe nonprofits deserve better than clunky, cobbled-together systems. That’s why we offer a full suite of modern fundraising tools—completely free—to help mission-driven teams stay organized, work together, and raise more.

For growing teams that need even more collaboration power, Givebutter Plus unlocks advanced tools for task management, automation, and reporting that scale alongside your impact.

Whether you're working with a small crew or coordinating across departments, here are seven ways Givebutter helps your team do more and stress less.

7 ways Givebutter brings clarity to nonprofit team collaboration

1. Task management that keeps your team moving 📋

Givebutter Plus offers smooth team collaboration tools for nonprofits with task management. 

Create, delegate, and track tasks, linking them to any contact, campaign, event, or transaction. You can assign tasks to yourself or team members, set a priority and due date, and keep track of progress with reminders and notifications. 

⭐ How this helps: Want your Executive Director to call a donor who just made their biggest gift yet? Create the task, add context from their donation history, and set a due date to make sure the thank-you happens on time.

It’s an intuitive system that allows everyone on the team to jump in and track their engagement and build campaigns they need for their teams. — Anne S., Executive Director

2. Workflows that keep everyone in sync 🤖

Let workflows handle the tedious work, so your team can focus on what matters. With Givebutter Plus, you can create workflows based on donor activity or other triggers, like giving, RSVPing, or signing up, eliminating the need to manually send welcome emails or remember to schedule a call.

Start with pre-built templates to quickly create workflows, or design your own custom setups that trigger when you want them to. Build anything from a simple donor thank-you message to a detailed drip campaign for your next fundraiser.

⭐ How this helps: Want to ensure that every new recurring donor is added to your recurring donor email stream? Set a workflow to enroll them automatically, so they’re welcomed and nurtured without anyone lifting a finger.

The ease of scheduling communications is fantastic and it saves me so much time. — Marissa C., Fund Development Director

3. Roles and permissions that reflect your real team ✅

Empower team members to work autonomously with access to the areas they need, and lock down access to secure information. Assign access based on their responsibilities—whether they're full-time staff, volunteers, or board members.

Givebutter’s enhanced roles and permissions give you complete control over who sees what, so team members can focus on their tasks without distractions or risks.

⭐ How this helps: Want volunteers to help manage event RSVPs without touching sensitive donor data? Grant campaign-specific access so they can stay focused on what matters.

Givebutter has a ton of features on the backend that are SO helpful to me as the Executive Director of a nonprofit with a small staff (i.e., I wear MANY hats). And the user interface is clean, modern, and simple. — Kristin M., Race Director & Consultant

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4. Reporting that brings everyone along 📊

Givebutter’s donor management software makes it a breeze to access the latest totals for your fundraising campaigns, monitor donor engagement, and keep track of must-have metrics from one convenient dashboard.

For deeper donor insights, Givebutter Plus offers advanced data visualization and real-time reporting tools. Keep everyone up to date on what’s happening with easy-to-share reports. 

⭐ How this helps: Schedule out reports so team members can access the exact data they need, when they need it—without playing email tag or duplicating work.

5.  One shared source of truth for donor relationships 📝

Fundraising is personal, and your whole team should be equipped to treat it that way. Givebutter’s built-in contact management includes notes and easy contact tags to stay on top of important details in donor relationship building. 

Add notes to donor profiles that give context for their situation or highlight their relationship with you, and use this information to deliver more meaningful and curated donor experiences. 

⭐ How this helps: Everyone on your team has access to the same up-to-date donor insights—no digging, no asking around. 

6. Always up-to-date donor timelines ⚙️

Know exactly who talked to which donor last and what was discussed, without having to call a meeting and send an email to a remote team member. Givebutter’s donor activity timeline gives you instant insight into their journey so far.

With centralized activity feeds, your entire team stays in sync automatically. Track every interaction, note, and follow-up in one searchable location, and avoid duplication or missing an opportunity to connect.

⭐ How this helps: Your team never has to wonder who followed up or what was promised, so no one accidentally sends a second thank-you for the same gift or misses a timely opportunity to re-engage.

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7. Structure that scales 📈

Create the right foundation now so that growth is even easier. Introduce nonprofit software that supports successful collaboration among your team and will scale with you as you grow.

Start with the basics and add more sophisticated features as your team expands—without the pain of switching nonprofit software platforms, losing historical data, and having to learn how to do everything all over again.

⭐ How this helps: Your team doesn’t need to learn a new system every time you level up, so no one wastes time exporting spreadsheets or rebuilding reports from scratch when you hire a new development staffer or add a second program site.

The Givebutter interface is incredibly intuitive! I was granted access by our development department and within a few clicks had figured out how to navigate the site, create my own text-to-donate keywords, and launch my first campaign. — Marshall T., Chief Impact & Programs Officer

Work better together with Givebutter 💛

A team that works together, wins together! When you’re part of a collaborative organization with the right tools, raising money feels even easier. 

Givebutter's built-in nonprofit collaboration features eliminate the need for multiple disconnected systems, creating a single source of truth for your entire fundraising operation.

Ready to transform how your team works together? 

Sign up for Givebutter to get started for free, or start a free 30-day trial of Givebutter Plus to explore powerful collaboration features, including workflows, task management, and enhanced roles and permissions. 

Your team (and your sanity) will thank you.