Nonprofit operations consultants who make your donor data worth trusting.
We help universities, hospital foundations and independent schools fix, migrate and report on their donor data. Raiser's Edge, DonorPerfect and Virtuous, with Power BI on top.
from $2M shops to billion-dollar campaigns
Three forces. One common goal.
When people, process and technology pull in the same direction, operational excellence follows. When one is missing, you get a very expensive spreadsheet. We look at all three, every time.
People
Named experts who have sat in your seat. We train your staff on the new way of working so the improvement outlasts our engagement.
Process
We map how gifts, acknowledgements and reports actually flow today, remove the bottlenecks and document the procedure your team will follow.
Technology
Raiser's Edge NXT, DonorPerfect, Virtuous, Power BI and Power Automate, configured to fit your process rather than the other way round.
Built to push the work that matters most.
Three priorities, in the order clients ask for them: keep the database running, make the reporting useful, and move platforms without losing sleep.
Managed Data Services
Your database manager left? We step in: gift entry, reconciliation, list pulls, reporting and CRM admin, on a monthly plan.
Explore managed servicesPower BI dashboards on your Raiser's Edge data
Live advancement dashboards through SKY API. No more Friday exports.
See the analytics work MigrationsCRM and database migration
Mapped, cleansed, tested and trained. Between Raiser's Edge NXT, DonorPerfect and Virtuous.
How we migrate Start hereDatabase health check
Ten working days. One prioritised plan. Duplicates, gaps and process issues, in plain English.
Request a health check AlsoTraining, automation and process design
- CRM training for advancement staff
- Power Automate for stewardship and AP
- Process documentation
Simple on purpose.
We assess where you are, decide where you want to be, close the gap in the fewest possible steps, and make sure your team can run it without us.
Assess
We interview your team, audit the database and review the reports people actually use. Two weeks, no disruption.
Roadmap
A prioritised plan with effort, cost and staff time for each item. You choose what to tackle and when.
Deliver
Migration, clean-up, dashboards or automation, in short phases with a check-in every week.
Train and hand over
Documented procedures and hands-on training so the new way of working sticks after we leave.
Built for advancement teams with a mission on the line.
Our clients tend to be universities, hospital foundations and independent schools. The database is different in each, but the pressure is the same: prove impact, keep donors close, and do it with a small team.
- UHigher education advancementAlumni data, campaign reporting, SKY API to Power BI.
- HHospital foundationsGrateful patient programs, gift processing, finance reconciliation.
- SIndependent schoolsParents, alumni and donors in one clean record.
Numbers, not adjectives.
Every engagement gets a before and after. Here are three.
From manual exports to a live campaign dashboard
SKY API integration for a Raiser's Edge NXT advancement office.
Covering a three-person ops team gap in two weeks
Gift batches, reconciliation and list pulls while the foundation rehired.
Raiser's Edge to DonorPerfect in one term
Mapped 41k constituents, deduplicated 12% of records, trained six staff.
Our database manager left and, frankly, the database was a mess. Sentinel had gift entry running again in a week and reconciled three months of batches by the end of the month.
Knowledgeable, calm, and they never made the project more complicated than it needed to be.
We finally trust the numbers we take to the board.
Learn it before you buy it.
Monthly sessions on Raiser's Edge NXT, Power BI and running a healthy nonprofit database. Live, then on demand with a transcript.
Browse all webinarsRaiser's Edge NXT to Power BI: three ways to connect, and which to pick
Exports, the connector, or a custom SKY API build. We show all three on a real (anonymised) database and talk about cost and upkeep.
CEO, Sentinel Consulting
One email a month. Zero fluff.
Industry insights, Raiser's Edge and DonorPerfect tips, and the questions our clients asked us that month. Read by advancement teams across North America.
Let's find out what your data can do.
Book a 30 minute discovery call. Tell us about your CRM, your reporting or the staff gap you are covering, and we will suggest a next step. No pitch deck.