How DonorsChoose scaled to $100M+ on cloud ERP 🎙 Live at Sage Intacct Advantage
Not-for-profits aren't always thought of as the most innovative companies, but the accounting team at DonorsChoose shatters that stereotype. Learn how they've grown to $175 million in annual revenue in six years while at the same time only adding one employee to the accounting team (from five to six). How is that possible? Because Alliah Mohamed and her team have embraced Sage Intacct's cloud ERP that enabling them to integrate their own platform to the GL at the project level. They even built their own bank feed!
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Show Notes
- 01:09 – Meet Alliah Mohamed, director of accounting and financial operations for DonorsChoose!
- 01:29 – Bright lights, big city, and one CAP listener in the live audience!
- 02:07 – How does DonorsChoose work?
- 03:22 – Because they work with such a mind-boggling number of funds, DonorsChoose uses Sage Intacct to help them track the money
- 04:51 – Before Intacct, DonorsChoose did things the old-fashioned way - manual entry
- 07:01 – Alliah attends Intacct Advantage to get inspiration, education, and connection with other users
- 07:56 – What's in the DonorsChoose tech stack?
- 09:08 – Why wait for a solution? Build your own!
- 10:10 – Lean, mean, not-for-profit machine - DonorsChoose is an innovative, tech-forward group of ... SIX people!
Connect with Alliah
- Alliah Mohamed Director, Accounting & Financial Operations, DonorsChoose
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alliahmohamed/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/alliah_mohamed
- DonorsChoose website: https://www.donorschoose.org
- Email: Alliah@DonorsChoose.org
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