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Neon One Wants to Give Nonprofits Their Time Back
A donor database, a donation form, a website that staff can actually update. Neon One is betting that the less time nonprofits spend wrestling with software, the more time they have for the people who give.
Chris Hanson Built a CRM for People Who Have Better Things to Do Than Wrestle With Software
Before SaaS had a name, Chris Hanson and Mark Paquette put nonprofit relationship management on the web. Twenty-eight years later, Hanson is still asking the same practical question: can better tools leave more time for the mission?
The Minnesota Software Company That Bet Nonprofits Would Pay for a Partner, Not a Product
Two guys who met on a governor's campaign built one of the first cloud databases for nonprofits, then rewrote their own corporate charter to prove they meant it. Nearly 30 years later they are betting the same customers on AI.
Coastal Cloud
Coastal Cloud is a US-based consulting firm founded in 2012 that helps organizations get more value from Salesforce, data, and AI. A top-tier Salesforce Summit/multi-cloud partner headquartered in Palm Coast, Florida, it delivers strategy, implementation, integration, analytics, and managed services across Sales, Service, Marketing, Revenue/CPQ, Commerce, and Data Cloud, extended by Snowflake, Tableau, and MuleSoft. With roughly 570 employees, thousands of Salesforce certifications, and work spanning healthcare, financial services, education, nonprofit, manufacturing, and the public sector, Coastal was acquired by Tata Consultancy Services in a $700 million all-cash deal announced in December 2025.
Dennis Fois
Dennis Fois is the CEO of Bloomerang, the leading nonprofit donor management and CRM platform serving over 26,000 organizations across North America. With more than 25 years of international leadership in CRM and customer experience technology - spanning roles at Copper CRM, NewVoiceMedia (sold to Vonage for $350M), Rant & Rave, eGain, Barclays, and ADP - Fois brings a rare combination of high-growth SaaS playbook execution and genuine conviction about the nonprofit sector's transformative potential. Based in San Francisco, he joined Bloomerang in January 2023 to lead the company's next phase of growth, overseeing a strategic investment from Warburg Pincus in 2024 and the acquisitions of Qgiv and InitLive to build what he calls the 'First Giving Platform.'