Why Cliffrose
Before Cliffrose, I spent 15 years in the nonprofit world. I led experiential education programs and expeditions across the country, from the Florida Keys to the coast of Maine, San Diego to the mountains of North Carolina, before I landed in Boston. I started in the field and grew into running the operations and the staff behind them. I learned what it takes to keep a mission running when there's never quite enough to go around.
During those years I read Edward Abbey describe the cliffrose in Desert Solitaire. It grows on bare sandstone where water is scarce, and it thrives where almost nothing else can. The name stuck with me, because it's the truest picture of nonprofit work I've found. You're already growing in hard ground.
In Boston, I set up and ran Salesforce for the nonprofit I worked for. That's how this career started. The years since have been Salesforce, almost all of it for nonprofits: 8+ years and 50+ engagements at established consultancies, designing and building for foundations and grantmakers, youth and education organizations, health and human services, and member associations. I've watched the right technology decisions free a small team to do far more than its size, and I've watched the wrong ones quietly drain a budget that was hard to raise in the first place.
That's why Cliffrose exists. Plenty of consultants know the platform. Fewer have sat in your chair. I scope for the budget you actually have and build so your team can own it after I'm gone. Your technology should be one less thing working against you.