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Sevetri Wilson and the work that stays behind
A consultant can leave. The work cannot. From a Louisiana services firm to Resilia, Sevetri Wilson built a career around that problem - and is carrying its lessons into her next chapter.
Ross Hendrickson and the art of handing over the keys
He helped build Bloomerang around the donors who come back. After a decade, Ross Hendrickson made room for a new CEO - and carried his interest in nonprofit technology into a different job.
Daisy Sayre Garcia and the business that began with room to breathe
She wanted meaningful work and more time with her children. A solo Salesforce consultancy became ImagineCRM, where understanding grantmakers and making room for people became part of the same job.
ImagineCRM knows what happens after a grant is approved
Giving money away can produce a surprising amount of paperwork. ImagineCRM builds Salesforce systems for the foundations and nonprofits trying to keep that paperwork from swallowing the mission.
Tessitura: The arts organizations that built their own software company
An opera house authorized $5 million to make ticketing and fundraising talk to each other. Seven arts organizations turned the result into Tessitura, a nonprofit technology cooperative serving more than 800 institutions.
OneCause turned the charity auction into a year-round business
A bidding tool became a fundraising platform by paying attention to the least glamorous moments of generosity. Now part of Bonterra, OneCause wants the relationship to last longer than the gala.
Ann Fellman Thinks Fundraising Software Should Make Room for the Human Part
After more than 25 years marketing enterprise technology, Bloomerang's CMO has arrived at a plainspoken thesis: better data matters most when it gives fundraisers more time to notice people.
Erin Stender Has Been Training for the Long Game
The Omatic CMO has spent two decades turning complex software into a human story. Her other enduring project - from a Boston Marathon pact to a youth-sports board seat - is making movement feel possible.
Rajeev Kumar Built a Consultancy That Refuses to Just Consult
After years inside banks and healthcare organizations, Rajeev Kumar made process improvement his operating system. At Mirketa, consulting assignments become reusable products - and AI is judged by whether it removes friction from real work.
Jason Hausske Wants Generosity to Feel as Easy as Sharing a Playlist
The Boise founder spent decades learning how people buy. With Cauze, he is applying those lessons to a harder question: what makes people give, return, and bring their friends?
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?
David Geilhufe Has Spent 30 Years Making Nonprofit Technology Less of a Chore
From an improvised missing-person database after Hurricane Katrina to AI built for grantmakers, the Resilia CEO keeps returning to one practical question: what can technology take off a nonprofit’s plate?
Personify
Inside the Austin software company that quietly runs the back office of American associations - from neighborhood clubs to national nonprofits - and just merged into a 37,000-client giant.
Almabase
The alumni engagement and fundraising platform helping schools and universities turn thousands of graduates into donors - without adding a single staff member.
Recidiviz
Recidiviz is a nonprofit technology company that stitches together the fragmented data trapped inside America's prison, parole and probation systems and turns it into usable tools. Its platform - and its newer AI-powered Case Planning Assistant - helps corrections agencies in roughly 19 states surface people eligible for early release, automate case triage, and connect returning citizens to housing, treatment and jobs. Founded in 2019 as a volunteer project at Google, Recidiviz's mission is to accelerate progress toward a smaller, fairer, safer justice system.
Sonia Nigam
Sonia Nigam is the co-founder and CEO of Change, a San Francisco fintech that turns charitable giving into a few lines of code. Brands drop a Change button into checkout and the company handles the unglamorous machinery behind it - vetting, compliance, and disbursement across more than 200,000 nonprofits. A Northwestern computer science and business grad who engineered frictionless payments at Braintree and Venmo, Nigam quit her job at the start of the pandemic to build the donations API she wished existed. She and co-founder Amar Shah landed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for social impact and raised a $5M seed round to bring giving on-chain.
Bloomerang
Bloomerang is an Indianapolis-based software company that builds a complete giving platform for nonprofits, combining donor management (CRM), online fundraising, and volunteer management into one system. Founded in 2012 on the insight that nonprofits were losing the majority of first-time donors, Bloomerang centers its product on donor retention and relationship-building rather than one-time transactions. It now serves more than 24,000 small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations.
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.'