If your goal is to make a considerable impact on the world, your nonprofit needs to be highly organized. You need all your gears moving in the same direction, in harmony, and without resistance. Having an intranet will support your grand vision to make a difference by keeping you and your team members organized from top to bottom.

There are plenty of intranet solutions to choose from, but not all are created equal. For an intranet to support your organization, it needs to be feature-rich and integrate with existing, popular applications.

For instance, the fully-integrated Google (News - Alert) Workspace intranet from Happeo is one of the top preferred intranet solutions on the market. Happeo supports on-site and remote teams to work seamlessly together on all projects from anywhere in the world.

As a nonprofit, your ability to make an impact expands as your personnel options expand. Having top talent on your team is one of the top ten characteristics of a successful nonprofit. With a Happeo intranet, you can literally hire anyone in the world and still be as productive as if your team worked in a physical office.

When operations are smooth, you won’t be held back

Nothing will hold you back from making an impact like administrative snags. The following setbacks will slow down momentum and make it harder for you to become a high impact nonprofit:

• Social media marketing team members who can’t find the right company files needed to make scheduled posts.
• Customer service representatives who need to schedule callbacks because they can’t find the answers to questions.
• Excessive company meetings to discuss issues that don’t involve everyone required to attend the meeting.
• Team members who need to call multiple coworkers to find contact information for a client or fellow team member.

These are just some of the major setbacks a nonprofit can experience from a lack of organization. However, a company intranet can facilitate the level of organization required to prevent all of these setbacks.

Having a company intranet will provide the following organizational benefits:

• A centralized location for storing files or integrating with existing file storage platforms (like Google Drive).
• An easy-to-reference people directory for clients and team members.
• An internal knowledgebase containing important company information sales reps may need to reference for clients and prospects.
• A system to schedule meetings only for specific team members.
• Administrative announcements team members can confirm they’ve read.

All of the above capabilities will streamline team management duties so you can focus on creating connections and making an impact on the world.

Smooth operations can generate more funding

Investors want to know your organization is viable before they’ll write you a check. They don’t just want to see your financial plan to pay them back. Even if your work is guaranteed to be successful, investors want to know your organization is operating smoothly enough to make good on that success. It’s less of a risk for them.

If you’re looking for investment funding, get an intranet and organize your company, so potential investors know you’re not just winging it.

An intranet will support your efforts to play big

If you just want to make a small impact on your local community, there’s nothing wrong with that. However, when your vision is big, you need to play a bigger game.

An intranet provides the administrative framework to implement the structure needed to support high-level work. For example, you can make a bigger impact by partnering with larger organizations, most of which will have no tolerance for missed meetings or failed deliverables. An intranet will keep you and your team on track with meetings, deliverables, client interactions, and administrative duties.

If you partner with a high-level organization, you can invite them to your intranet to participate in discussions and connect directly with your team.

You’re winging it without an intranet

No matter how organized you try to become, nothing can organize you better than an intranet that consolidates multiple application functions into one space. An intranet puts everything you need in one location—files, access to clients, an internal people directory, scheduling tools, Google Workspace integration, and more.

If you want to become a high-impact nonprofit, you need the supportive foundation of an intranet.