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This year’s International Women’s Day was themed #ChooseToChallenge – challenging individuals and organizations around the world to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness against bias, and take action for gender equality. Through our work, Vera Solutions has had the privilege to work alongside many organizations who #ChooseToChallenge everyday, working tirelessly to
31st March 2021
At Vera Solutions, we believe that collaboration is a cornerstone to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . Over the last decade, we’ve been fortunate to work with hundreds of organizations to deliver data solutions that unlock a culture of transparency, collaboration, and data-informed decision-making. Through our work, we’ve been
12th March 2021
Amp Impact Electra, the product’s Winter ‘21 release, brings powerful new functionality to strengthen work planning and logframe management, provides greater flexibility to use Amp Impact’s features on any Salesforce object(s), and adds key enhancements to continue strengthening the product’s user-experience. With the Delphinus release last Summer, we unveiled Amp
12th February 2021
At Vera Solutions, we’re often asked, “Why do you build nonprofit solutions on Salesforce? Isn’t it just a CRM tool?” As a technology provider, we love Salesforce mostly for its extensive configurability and scalability—allowing us to build using ‘clicks, not code’, streamline and automate organizational workflow, and store all kinds
3rd February 2021
Our word for the year: resilience. Reflecting on 2020, Vera has surely faced unprecedented challenges, but we’ve also seen some great milestones and remarkable growth. In March, as the world adapted to widespread lockdowns and growing health and economic concerns as a result of the pandemic, we quickly shifted our
18th December 2020
Over the last decade, Salesforce – the world’s leading cloud computing platform – has steadily become a go-to platform for nonprofit program management. As COVID-19 has disrupted many aspects of nonprofit programming – from fundraising to delivery – the need for a centralized, end-to-end program management system is more important
16th December 2020
MCLEAN, VA. (PRWEB) November 20, 2020 — Acumen Solutions and Vera Solutions today announced a new strategic partnership to help nonprofits, grantmakers, and impact investors measure impact and more effectively manage the lifecycle of programs, projects, grants, and investment. The experience and service delivery excellence of Acumen Solutions, a Top
20th November 2020
October 20, 2020 – Meaningful Business, a global platform for leaders combining profit and purpose, has recognized Vera Solutions Co-founder and CEO Zak Kaufman as a Meaningful Business 100 (MB100) leader for 2020. Zak joins an impressive group of purpose-driven business leaders around the world, including the Founders/CEOs of Chobani,
20th October 2020
Vera Solutions’ Fellowship offers impact-driven professionals the opportunity to join an innovative, global team using technology to transform the way the social sector engages with data. Learn more about the Fellowship here. We are delighted to introduce the 2020-21 Vera Solutions Fellowship cohort. These 14 fellows – from Brazil, India,
14th October 2020
Amp Impact Delphinus, the product’s Summer ‘20 release, launches huge new features and enhancements for implementers and grantmakers. The most exciting addition is the Grant Applications and Reviews Module, a packaged set of functionality that helps streamline and automate the application management process for grant managers, reviewers, and applicants. Grantmakers
28th August 2020
Last week, Salesforce.org, Monitor Institute by Deloitte, and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) released Impact Measurement Today, a white paper outlining a cross-sector approach to impact management capacity building. While nonprofits and governments focus efforts and resources around monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), grantmakers and impact investors are getting increasingly
24th July 2020
Salesforce.org has just released a whole slew of new products and feature enhancements that have generated a lot of excitement here at Vera. One of these, the Program Management Module (PMM), has been in the works for a while – we are delighted to see it brought to life and
4th June 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlo1mAVClWI&feature=youtu.beAround the globe, nonprofits are taking an impact-first approach to digital transformation and using technology to work cross-functionally, communicate effectively, and enhance program effectiveness. This webinar, hosted by Salesforce.org, brings together a well-rounded group of panelists – Zak Kaufman of Vera Solutions, Tim Fives of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Elena
18th May 2020
Over the past few months, we’ve witnessed how the COVID-19 pandemic is fast-tracking digital transformation around the world. Public health services, such as the UK’s National Health Service, are turning to more telemedicine resources to cope with the new demand. In the private sector, cloud meeting and team collaboration providers
