Trust
We tell you the truth
Earned over fifteen years of showing up for missions. We are a Pledge 1% member, committing a share of our resources back to the sector we serve, and we tell you the truth even when it is not what we are selling.
Founded 2011 · Salesforce Partner since 2014
Amplifying nonprofit culture and strengths
A small, senior team building technology worthy of the missions that use it. Since 2011 that has meant one thing above all: showing up, and staying long enough to see the work grow.
15
Years, mission-driven
100+
Organizations served
Highly
certified, Salesforce-wide
'14
Salesforce Partner since
Heritage
Our story
Buzzbold was founded in 2011 to bring thoughtful technology to organizations doing hard, human work. We became a Salesforce Partner in 2014, and in the years since we have served more than 100 nonprofit and education organizations: foundations, public media, social services, advocacy groups, and more.
Most of us came to this work from inside the sector. Former educators, nonprofit administrators, and program people who learned firsthand what a mission needs from its systems. We are not a consultancy that also serves nonprofits. We were built from the ground up for mission-driven work, and it shows in every engagement.
Through all of it, our craft has stayed the same: information architecture and automation. Data models that reflect how your programs actually run. Processes that hold up under real-world pressure. Documentation your team can stand on long after we are gone. Fundraising forms, analytics engines, grantmaking systems: different projects, same discipline underneath.
That heritage is why practical AI is our natural next chapter rather than a pivot. Good AI needs exactly the foundation we have always built, so when our clients are ready, we help them add it to the Salesforce they already trust.
What we value
Three values, each with a commitment behind it
Not slogans. Each one is backed by something you can check.
Inclusion
Equity shapes the work
A certified LGBT Business Enterprise (NGLCC, 2024). Equity is not a page on our website. It shapes how we hire, how we design, and how we show up in every client engagement.
Our LGBTBE certification →Growth
Sustainable for the world around it
Growth for your mission, your team’s capacity, and your community, and growth that is sustainable for the world around it. We have committed to reaching net zero by 2030, because organizations serving the future should not borrow against it.
Our net-zero commitment →How we work
We work with you, not for you
Plenty of consultants build a system, hand over the keys, and disappear. We think that leaves organizations dependent, and dependence is the opposite of what a mission needs. Your cause deserves a team that is confident in its own tools, not one waiting on a support ticket.
Every Buzzbold engagement is designed to build your team’s capacity. Our teach-back approach means your staff configures alongside us, practices with real scenarios, and walks away confident. The documentation, the knowledge, the system: they are yours, for good.
It's how we approach business sustainability: balancing a healthy business with our service mission. When your team owns its own systems, working with us is a choice you make with eyes open. We want to help with what's next, and we want the results to be the reason you keep choosing us.