If you're a nonprofit organization currently using or interested in using the Microsoft technology stack, the Microsoft Tech for Social Impact (TSI) team has given you new reasons to consider the Microsoft ecosystem.

With the November 2, 2021, general availability announcement of Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit, organizations now have a solution provided by Microsoft that covers a wide range of services needed by most organizations, including constituent management, fundraising, volunteer management, program impact management, and more. Rather than one piece of software you'll download or purchase, think of this as more of a broad solution that can be pieced together under one supported umbrella of offerings by Microsoft.

The solution was released with paid services provided by Microsoft directly to help organizations get started with the solution and supported for the long-term, while also providing Microsoft nonprofit tech consulting firms more tools to custom build solutions.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Nonprofits is a name you're likely to hear very frequently in the nonprofit tech space over the next several years.

As Microsoft's own cloud-based CRM platform, Dynamics for Nonprofits offers a new technology option for organizations of all sizes. If you're already using a range of Microsoft products (or have heard of Microsoft's generous Tech for Social Impact initiative) but haven't yet heard of Dynamics, you're definitely going to want to have it on your radar.

When your company is worth more than $1,200,000,000,000 (I had to count the number of zeros, just to make sure I had it right), you have a unique opportunity to shape a better world. Some might go as far as to say it’s a responsibility to do so.

But what do you tackle?

Well, if you’re Microsoft, and you can scale the benefits of your services and products around the world, the sky’s the limit! Getting focused, and delivering actual solutions that can be used to do good requires insight and expertise working with those on the front lines. Plus, a good bit of leadership.

It’s no surprise then that Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Philanthropies in December 2015 to lead this charge, with among other things a plan to donate $1 billion of the company’s cloud services. Then, in September 2017, Microsoft Philanthropies announced the launch of Microsoft Tech for Social Impact (Microsoft TSI), with a focus to help more nonprofits around the world more fully leverage the power of the cloud.

As we enter 2020, the Microsoft TSI train seems to have picked up steam as the nonprofit community takes notice. But what exactly does Microsoft TSI plan to do?