Secure, Affordable IT for Nonprofit Organizations
Your donors trust you with their most personal information. Norvet honors that trust with managed EDR, MFA on every account, encrypted backups, and a documented incident-response plan, at pricing designed for nonprofit budgets.
Are You Dealing With...
These are the challenges we hear from nonprofit executive directors and board members every week. If any sound familiar, you are not alone.
Donor Data Exposure
Your donor database contains credit card numbers, bank account details, and personally identifiable information for thousands of supporters. A breach does not just cost money. It destroys the trust your mission depends on.
Compliance and Reporting Demands
Grant funders increasingly require evidence of cybersecurity controls. State attorneys general can investigate data breaches. Without proper documentation, your organization is exposed on multiple fronts.
Limited IT Budgets
Every dollar spent on technology is a dollar not spent on your mission. You need managed EDR, MFA, encrypted backups, and a documented incident-response plan, at a price point that respects your nonprofit budget.
Volunteer Device Management
Staff and volunteers use personal laptops, tablets, and phones to access organizational systems. Without device management policies, you have no control over the security of devices touching your data.
What We Do for Nonprofits
Technology services designed around the realities of nonprofit budgets, volunteer workforces, and mission-critical donor relationships.
Managed IT Services
Proactive monitoring, helpdesk support, patch management, and vendor coordination: everything a full-time IT department provides, at a fraction of the cost. We keep your systems running so your team can focus on the mission.
Cybersecurity
Endpoint detection and response, email security, phishing protection, and dark web monitoring designed for nonprofit threat profiles. We protect donor data and beneficiary records from the threats targeting mission-driven organizations.
Cloud Backup and Recovery
Automated, encrypted backups of your donor database, financial records, email, and critical documents. Tested monthly so you know recovery works when you need it, not just on paper.
Helpdesk Support
Responsive support for staff and key volunteers when technology gets in the way of the work. Our helpdesk handles everything from password resets to application issues so your team stays productive.
Your stack, supported
We don't ask your organization to rip out what's working
Norvet integrates with the donor CRM, accounting, grants- management, and program-tracking systems your team already relies on. We harden, monitor, back up, and recover that stack. We don't replace it.
Donor CRM & fundraising
Salesforce NPSP, Bloomerang, DonorPerfect, Neon CRM, Little Green Light, Kindful, Virtuous, Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT
Accounting & fund accounting
QuickBooks Online + Desktop Nonprofit, Sage Intacct for Nonprofits, Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, Aplos, Xero
Grants management
Foundant GLM (Grant Lifecycle Manager), Submittable, Fluxx, GivingData, Salesforce Grants Management
Program & case management
Apricot by Bonterra, ETO (Bonterra), CharityTracker, FAMCare, CaseWorthy, Penelope (Athena)
Security stack we add alongside
SentinelOne EDR, Sophos MDR + endpoint, 24/7 managed SOC, KnowBe4 awareness training, Veeam immutable backup, dark-web monitoring, MFA-enforced access
Compliance + funder frameworks
IRS 990 record-retention rules, donor-PII handling under state nonprofit registration laws, funder data-security requirements (federal grant cybersecurity clauses), HIPAA where direct-service includes health data
Running something not listed here? Most nonprofit stacks combine 4–6 of the systems above with a long tail of mission-specific tools. Tell us what you have and we'll tell you honestly which pieces we've supported in production.
Anti-disruption
What bad nonprofit IT vendors do — and we don't
We hear the same four complaints from organizations switching off another IT vendor. If any of these sound familiar, Norvet works differently on purpose.
Bad vendor: They can’t produce the data-security artifacts a federal funder asks for during a grant audit.
Norvet: We map controls to the cybersecurity clauses your federal grants reference (NIST 800-171 for CUI, HIPAA where direct-service touches health data) and keep the documentation current so a funder audit is a same-week response, not a six-week scramble.
Bad vendor: They commingle donor PII with general office traffic. One ransomware event exposes both.
Norvet: Donor PII is segregated and encrypted at rest. Access is MFA-enforced and logged. Audit logs show every read of every donor record so legal counsel can answer a state breach-notification inquiry from a known-clean state.
Bad vendor: They roll out patches the morning of a major fundraising event or right before a grant-application deadline.
Norvet: Patch + reboot windows respect your event calendar and grant deadlines. Gala mornings, year-end-giving December, and grant due-dates get held. Change requests reschedule, not the campaign.
Bad vendor: They sell "24/7 monitoring" but their alerts don’t fire on the signals that matter for a small nonprofit (failed donation processing, donor-receipt email bouncing).
Norvet: We monitor the signals that map to revenue: donation-processor round-trip time, donor-receipt email delivery rate, CRM-to-accounting sync success. Alerts page humans within minutes.
Extends what works
We extend what's working — we don't replace it
Most nonprofits come to us already running a donor CRM, an accounting platform, a grants tool, and a program-management system their staff knows. Our job is to harden, monitor, back up, and recover that stack. When something genuinely needs replacing, we say so honestly and let your executive director and board see the math.
- We deploy 24/7 SOC monitoring and EDR next to your existing antivirus — not over the top of it.
- We add encrypted offsite backup without disrupting your donor CRM sync or your accounting export to your auditor.
- We segment donor PII, program-participant data, and general office email so a single ransomware event doesn’t expose all three.
- We adopt your fundraising calendar. Patch + reboot windows respect gala mornings, year-end-giving December, and grant deadlines.
- When a donor-CRM or accounting upgrade requires new hardware, we quote against the vendor’s spec sheet so your finance director and board can compare apples-to-apples.
- We document everything we touch in your organization’s documentation system, not in a private wiki our team owns. If you ever offboard from Norvet, you keep the runbook.
Case Study
Atlanta Community Foundation
Cut IT Costs 40% While Strengthening Security
A mid-size Atlanta nonprofit was spending thousands on reactive IT support with no proactive monitoring, no backup testing, and no security awareness training. After partnering with Norvet MSP, they consolidated their technology under a predictable monthly plan.
- Migrated to Microsoft 365 Nonprofit with MFA and endpoint management
- Deployed encrypted cloud backup with monthly restore testing
- Implemented security awareness training for 35 staff and key volunteers
- Reduced annual IT spend by 40% compared to previous break-fix costs
Nonprofit IT Plans
Available by Consultation
Includes managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud backup, and support: everything your nonprofit needs to protect donor data and keep operations running. Contact us to discuss your organization's needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from nonprofit executive directors and board members.
Your Mission Deserves Reliable Technology.
Let us handle the IT so you can focus on the work that matters. Get a free consultation and see how Norvet MSP supports nonprofits across metro Atlanta.