Adapt and Advance Your Mission with Confidence
Even with reduced government funding, shifting donor expectations, and rising program costs, your mission remains the same—and so does your commitment to the communities you serve.
That’s why nonprofits are turning to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: a flexible, scalable solution that helps you adapt to change, stay accountable to funders, and make every dollar go further. Whether you’re navigating new grant requirements, expanding services, or planning for long-term sustainability, your people, programs, and partners deserve a system that’s built to keep up.
- Stretch every dollar further by managing budgets, grant allocations, and funding streams in one connected system.
- Free up time and resources with automation that reduces manual entry and simplifies reporting—so your team can focus on impact.
- Strengthen funder and donor trust with real-time transparency into how resources are used and where outcomes are being achieved.
- Make data-driven decisions with integrated insights across finance, programs, and operations to guide strategy and demonstrate results.
- Adapt to change with ease using a system built to scale as your organization grows or shifts direction.
Looking to Implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Without Overwhelming Your Team?
We get it—nonprofits are often working with limited time, staff, and resources. That’s why we offer flexible implementation options designed to meet you where you are.
Start Where You Are. Grow at Your Pace.
You don’t have to do everything at once. Many organizations begin by implementing core financial and operational capabilities, then expand over time. We support a phased approach that allows you to roll out new processes, modules, and integrations gradually—aligned with your team’s capacity, timelines, and budget cycles. That way, your system evolves as your needs grow—without overwhelming your staff or disrupting day-to-day work.
Choose the Right Path for Your Organization
- Our HeadSTART for Nonprofits approach is ideal if you need to go live quickly, reduce risk, control costs, and minimize disruption. It focuses on core functionality first, with the flexibility to roll out additional features over time—maximizing long-term value and supporting mission-driven decisions.
- Our traditional implementation approach begins with a Business Process Alignment (BPA), where we take time to understand your operations, workflows, and goals. This path is ideal if you’re planning a broader transformation and want a tailored solution that supports deeper process improvements from day one.
With experience serving hundreds of nonprofits, we bring best practices, integrate essential systems (like billing, donor management, and grant platforms), and help you right-size your Microsoft licensing—so more of your budget stays focused on your mission.
Optimize Operations and Maximize Impact with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft Ecosystem
Streamline Financial Management
Efficiently manage your financials with robust tools for budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management. Easily track and analyze revenue streams, manage donor contributions, and ensure compliance with funder and donor requirements and regulatory obligations.
Improve Transparency and Accountability
Ensure transparency with accurate reporting and real-time data visualizations through Power BI integration, meeting regulatory standards and building public trust. Combine financial data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with data from other systems to gain a comprehensive view of your organization’s value.
Do More with Less
Automate workflows and optimize resources with Copilot, streamlining tasks like forecasting, reporting, and data entry. Seamless Microsoft 365 integration keeps your team connected for real-time collaboration on reports, grants, and program delivery.
Grow, Adapt, and Innovate
Scale effortlessly with a cloud solution that grows with your organization, integrates with other systems, and adapts to changes keeping your nonprofit agile and responsive.
Ensure Compliance
Stay compliant with nonprofit accounting regulations and manage records for audits and filings. Manage Form 990 reporting, donor receipts, and disclosure requirements, to help ensure compliance obligations are met.
Prioritize Security
Built on Microsoft’s secure cloud, Business Central ensures your financial data is protected. In addition to our ERP implementation team, we have an expert cybersecurity practice that can help you implement protocols that meet the highest data security standards.
Why Nonprofits Choose Sikich for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Implementations
At Sikich, we understand that your mission is what matters most. With over 30 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations, we know how your organization operates and the unique challenges you face. Our goal is to deliver solutions that enhance your ability to drive impact while improving operational efficiency.
Vetted Third-Party Solutions
If Business Central doesn’t meet all your needs out of the box, we offer vetted solutions like SylogistMission ERP to provide additional capabilities like fund accounting, grant management, and allocations, and Binary Stream’s Multi-Entity Management for multi-entity accounting. These software solutions are specifically designed to complement Business Central, providing the advanced functionality nonprofits require.
Ongoing Support
Our managed services for Dynamics 365 Business Central provide comprehensive, ongoing support, including application assistance, system administration, dedicated resources, optimization, and release management. These services ensure your D365 BC environment runs smoothly, offering improved user experience, streamlined operations, and enhanced security. With timely support, regular system reviews, and seamless updates, we allow your team to focus on core activities while maintaining a robust and optimized system.
Essential Software Tools to Streamline Your Nonprofit’s Accounting and Compliance
Fund Management
Automate fund balancing, close years by fund and access unlimited net asset classes for statutory reporting.
Grant Management
Automate proposal tracking, awards, sub awards and contracts.
Audit Trials
Stay at the forefront of accounting best practices by recording and saving every transaction, even when fixing accounting errors.
Budgets
Set up unlimited budgets for planning, revisions, and final versions. Import and export full or partial budgets from Excel.
Workflow Management
Improve productivity across the organization by automating mundane tasks. Create workflows that connect business process tasks across users.
Allocations
Allocate across funds, accounts and dimensions like programs, projects, grants, and departments, better manage your budgets and approvals and get detailed financial reports instantly.
Electronic Bank Reconciliation
Manage multiple bank accounts in multiple currencies. Process automatic reconciliations, positive pay, electronic payments, direct deposits, and check writing.
Entity Mangement
Manage and consolidate separate Business Central companies or multiple entities maintained within one Business Central company.
Integrations
Create powerful and automated integrations with your billing software, donor software, and other systems.
Vendors
Track your payables and expenses, from requisitions through purchase orders and invoices, then finish with your payment cycles.
Fixed Assets
Manage your organization’s assets throughout their lifetime, depreciate them according to GAAP guidelines or expense them to grants and projects.
Purchase Orders
Automate approval workflows orders based on budget available net of requisitions, existing purchase orders, commitments, and actual expenses.
Microsoft 365
Secure, collaborative tools to enhance communication, document sharing, and efficiency.
Copilot
Helps nonprofits streamline tasks with AI-powered assistance
Power Platform
Enables nonprofits to build low-code custom apps, automate processes, and gain insights.
ALL THE REPORTS YOU NEED TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE AND REPORT WITH CONFIDENCE
Whether you want to improve efficiencies, improve production throughput, earn more donors, or ensure innovation, we’ll help you get there.
- Program Expense Reports – To track expenses tied to specific programs or services.
- Fund Accounting Reports – To ensure proper tracking of restricted and unrestricted funds.
- Grant Usage Reports – To track and report on how grant funds are allocated.
- Financial Tracking of Donations and Receipts – To monitor contributions and program revenue.
- Audit-Ready Financial Statements – Statement of Financial Position; Statement of Activities; Statement of Functional Expenses, Statements of Cash Flows, and other reports for internal and external audits.
- IRS Form 990 Reports – For tax-exempt status and annual reporting.
- In-Kind Donation Reports – To track and value non-cash contributions.
Access to Leading Tech for Social Impact Solutions
As a Managed Partner under Microsoft’s Tech for Social Impact (TSI) group, Sikich is part of an exclusive group of just 22 partners in North America. This partnership provides us with deep insights into the latest trends and technologies that Microsoft develops specifically for nonprofits. We leverage this knowledge to help you adopt scalable nonprofit software solutions, share best practices from other organizations, and guide you to Microsoft software discounts and grants that can support your nonprofit’s digital transformation.
