NAO’s Network Passes, available for purchase only by NAO members, are the most flexible and affordable way to deep-dive into NAO’s network sessions. These events cover topics ranging from human resources to financial management to fundraising and more. The NAO network season begins each fall, with monthly sessions from October through May. To maximize the value of these passes, sales are only available until Sunday, December 1, 2024. Get yours now before this opportunity passes you by!

Value

• Save up to $200 by purchasing a Network Pass instead of buying individual tickets to network events.
• Pre-purchase 10 registrations to redeem at any network session – and at a heavily discounted price. (Think punch card style)
• May be used for both in-person or virtual sessions.
• Passes may be shared with anyone in your organization (colleagues, volunteers, and board members).
• Use your pass to bring a guest to any network session.

Learn more by reading Network Pass FAQ’s here.

Little Green Light, an all-in-one donor management and CRM software, makes managing your nonprofit’s fundraising operations easier than ever. 

Built specifically for small and mid-sized organizations, Little Green Light allows you to spend more time building and cultivating relationships with your supporters rather than wrangling with a complicated system. 

With Little Green Light, you can consolidate all your data into one system, automate everyday tasks to save time, and see and analyze your data more clearly than ever before. 

Why Use Little Green Light? 

• Better manage relationships – one-page constituent profiles, set up team task reminders, contact management, volunteer management, manage memberships, alumni management 
• Track and manage all fundraising activity – gift tracking, pledge tracking, gift coding, track grants, manage events, create segmented appeals 
• Become more efficient with built-in productivity tools – built-in email, simple mail merge, generate acknowledgements, accept online donations, create online forms, built-in integrations 
• Easily search data and generate accurate reports – powerful search, list builder, pre-built reports, custom reports 
• Keep your data safe and secure – set permissions, automate backups and secure storage 

Pricing – NAO Members Receive $100 off their first year! 

Save 10% when billed annually, discounts also apply to prepayments of 3 months (2.5%) and 6 months (5%). 

Add $15/mo for each additional 10k tier. 

Online donation processing pricing – This pay-as-you-go feature is available in all accounts. 

Starting at 2.2% + $0.30 per transaction paid to the payment processor (no fee to LGL). 

“You want your funding to go to your mission, but you may be losing dollars to your operations in surprising ways. With over 40 years serving nonprofits, UST Workforce Solutions has the expertise and tools to help you uncover hidden savings and prioritize your mission.”

In the nonprofit sector, staying ahead in HR management is crucial. UST can help navigate the evolving complexities of human resources with confidence. They not only understand the unique challenges nonprofit employers face but also offer tailored solutions, such as UST HR Workplace, powered by Mineral—a comprehensive platform designed to empower your organization with essential HR tools. Through our partnership with UST, members have access to essential Workforce, HR and Unemployment solutions that meet the unique needs of nonprofit employers.

UST offers cost-saving programs designed to improve cash flow, mitigate risk, ensure HR compliance, and add operational efficiencies so you can do more to impact your local communities.

Service highlights include:

• Unlimited Live HR Support: Expert HR advice at your fingertips
• Thousands of HR Templates: Customizable to fit your organization’s policies
• An Employee Handbook Builder: Automatically updated and customizable for your needs
• On-Demand Training: Empowering your team with the knowledge they need to thrive
• And much more

Whether your primary focus is to protect your assets, ensure compliance, reduce unemployment costs, or to build a thriving work culture to keep your employees engaged, UST has a solution for you.

Over 2,200 nonprofit employers saved more than $56 million in unemployment claims costs with UST Workforce Solutions in just one year alone.

To learn more, visit the UST website or contact a dedicated UST Workforce Consultant for a free Program Evaluation at 888-249-4788.

NAO Members receive:

• Free 60-Day Trial of UST HR Workplace
• $240 annual member savings off the standard rate for the UST HR Workplace platform, now offered as a stand-alone product. *Note: for those interested in unemployment solutions, HR Workplace is offered as part of UST’s Trust and Secure products at no additional cost.
• Complimentary 2-Year Unemployment Savings Projection
• Exclusive Nonprofit Content and State-Specific News

You can also sign up for UST’s eNewsletter to receive exclusive nonprofit specific content such as invitations to nonprofit-only webinars, how-to-guides, eBooks and sector research.

NAO and OneDigital, Portland have partnered together to bring NAO’s 501(c)(3) members a new retirement plan program – ImpactRetireNPO – designed specifically for Oregon’s nonprofits. The plan is turnkey, affordable, and easy to understand while including awesome investment options. Each nonprofit that enrolls has the ability to customize the savings plan for its own employees. OneDigital, Portland takes the heavy lift off of nonprofit organizations, whether a nonprofit is looking to offer a new retirement plan for its employees or is seeking an alternative to its current retirement plan options.  

OneDigital, Portland has been consulting on retirement plans for almost 40 years and is a 100% women-led region. OneDigital, Portland has dedicated much of its resources as an organization to making investing and saving for retirement attainable to ALL organizations. OneDigital, Portland has been successfully working with nonprofits of all sizes and subsectors for several years and truly understands nonprofits’ needs. Their approach is hands-on client service, access and inclusion, service to community, and their commitment towards making a greater social impact through their services. In May 2021, OneDigital acquired Impact Benefits & Retirement, expanding its Portland presence.  

NAO hosted a webinar with OneDigital, Portland to share more about this retirement plan benefit. Access recording here. 

Value 

OneDigital plans for NAO 501(c)(3) members include the following: 

• Turnkey Solution: No more analyzing investments, tracking eligibility, sending out notices and processing distributions; Impact is your fiduciary! 
• Cost-savings: Negotiated lower pricing  
• Transparent Pricing: Costs are straightforward and simple in a flat-fee pricing structure 
• Investment Coaching: Dedicated guidance from investment experts who speak your language and have your best interests in mind 
• Employee Education: Access to local, licensed advisors, customized education for your organization, quarterly financial wellness webinars, and affordable financial wellness program  

Strive Workplace Solutions has all the resources you need to keep your business successful! We are small enough to provide hands-on support, and large enough to take care of all of your needs!

The Strive story started in 1967 in Tigard, Oregon as Southwest Office Supply, a family owned and locally operated printing and office products reseller. Over the next 54 years, through organic growth and acquisitions, they have expanded to six locations in three states serving organizations like yours nationwide. They remain a family owned and locally operated supplier and continue to expand to bring you the best possible experience and value.

At Strive, we think and act as if we were part of your business. We help you achieve your corporate goals by freeing you up to focus on your organization. We handle your office supplies, printing, janitorial, breakroom, personal protection equipment and furniture needs, so you can concentrate on doing what you do best. Let us help you in as many ways as we can.

• Next day delivery nationwide
• No minimum order
• Over 70,000 items featured on our website
• Low-price guarantee
• Inventory control and cost-containment programs
• Customized and accurate billing
• Easy returns
• Easy on-line ordering or by phone, e-mail or fax
• Company owned trucks and drivers
• Special orders and emergency deliveries available
• Family owned and locally operated
• Open accounts with terms, credit card or electronic payments

NAO Members receive access to special discounted pricing, custom favorites lists and a dedicated NAO Customer Care Representative, Molly Stack, [email protected], 503-241-1921.

Looking to connect with great candidates to join your organization? Let Mac’s List help! Mac’s List, a certified B Corp, is a regional job board with a mission to help people build skills, find jobs, and grow sustainable careers. 

Value 

NAO partners with Mac’s List to offer NAO members: 

• Save $15 on an individual job post, one-time use: Use their simple post-and-pay system to post a job and save an additional $15, on top of the already discounted nonprofit rates. 
• Free Volunteer listings: Looking for volunteers for an event or project? You can always post a volunteer listing, free of charge, on Mac’s List. 

Doing the Right Thing as a Leader Matters More Than Ever

Many nonprofit leaders have a renewed focus on addressing employee health and wellbeing. One way leaders approach this is by reimagining their employee health benefits to ensure that all employees have equitable access to healthcare.

It Can Be Challenging to Know Where to Begin

But we’ve got you covered! Nonstop Administration and Insurance Services, Inc. (Nonstop) is a local mission-based health benefits company that provides robust first-dollar coverage health insurance plan designs to the nonprofit workforce. Nonstop has been a proud partner of the Nonprofit Association of Oregon since 2016 and today delivers lower cost, accessible health benefits to nonprofits all over the state of Oregon.  To read how Nonstop Health impacted The Next Door, a social services nonprofit located in The Dalles, Oregon, check out this case study.

Nonstop’s flagship program, Nonstop Health, is a health benefits program that allows nonprofits to fund their employees’ healthcare premiums and out-of-pocket costs while also saving on premiums annually. Nonstop Health combines an ACA compliant health plan with a section 105 medical expense reimbursement program (MERP), which then covers employees upfront out-of-pocket costs with a Nonstop Health medically coded VISA card.

To hear what nonprofit employees think about Nonstop Health, watch this short testimonial video.

First-Dollar Coverage

Employees can visit in-network providers, pick up covered prescriptions and receive covered medical procedures, all without a financial barrier — no upfront copays or deductibles.

Nonstop Can Partner With Your Benefits Broker

Nonstop understands that your broker is often a trusted advisor and key part of your health benefits purchasing team — with this in mind, Nonstop can partner with your trusted broker to deliver the Nonstop Health program.

Let’s Do This!

If your organization values equitable access to healthcare for all levels of staff and is open to an innovative solution that aims to retain – and protect – hard working staff, Nonstop would be a good fit.

Learn More About Nonstop Health

Visit nonstophealth.com for an overview of how Nonstop Health works, watch this short introductory video (share with your benefits broker!) or contact us below.

Contact Lesley Brown Albright, Director of Business Development:

Lesley Brown Albright is a Director of Business Development specializing in serving the Northwest region for Nonstop. She has over 18 years of experience fostering relationships and creating collaborative thought leadership solutions in the Oregon community.

To learn more about business and community partnerships, reach out to Lesley at 503-309-4586 [email protected].

What People Are Saying

“An organization’s biggest investment is in its human resources, and they need to be cared for, nurtured, and developed. Offering employee healthcare is one critical way to do this – but it needs to be affordable and accessible to be of real use to Oregon’s nonprofit employees. They need to feel that they are secure in both their and their family’s health and well-being in order to best serve our communities. Doing this will make a significant difference in the success and sustainability of an organization.”

-Jim White, Executive Director of NAO

“We’re over two years in now, and people are super-happy. One of the questions I get over and over is: ‘Are you sure Nonstop is coming back next year?’ Because people can’t believe, one, that we can provide this, and two, that it’s not a severe impact on the budget.”

– Tracy King, Benefits Administrator, Pacific University

NAO is pleased to offer GrantStation as a member benefit to help your organization find local, statewide, and national funding opportunities! This full Membership gives you access to Member Benefits that provide the tools for you to find new grant sources, build a strong grantseeking program, and write winning grant proposals.

Value

This service is only $95, saving up to $84 per year for your organization!

Your enrollment will give you:

GrantStation Insider spotlighting funding opportunities delivered to your email every week!

Archived issues of the GrantStation Insider, the weekly newsletter.

Access to thousands of carefully researched profiles of private and government funding opportunities, at the local, state and national level, to help you find the grantmakers most appropriate for your organization. Curious what the listing offers? To view a sample listing, see the National Funding Alert on GrantStation’s homepage.

In-depth tutorials on each element of a full grant requests.

Tools and articles on the entire grant process. An example can be found here. You can also find out more about this member benefit by taking their Website Tour.

Check out what’s new here.

DonorSearch is a prospect research company that helps you identify and research prospective donors, including individuals, organizations and foundations. DonorSearch is the only prospect research company that starts with proven philanthropy to provide more accurate, more comprehensive, and more actionable data to help nonprofits of all types achieve better fundraising and outreach results. Using information from 25 databases, DonorSearch utilizes proprietary algorithms to help clients find the best philanthropic prospects. DonorSearch’s data can be easily integrated with most common donor management software, putting critical donor information at a client’s fingertips. 

Value 

All current NAO members have access to the following discounted services provided by DonorSearch: 

• A free prospect screening evaluation and test file – DonorSearch will analyze a portion of your internal data on prospects’ previous donations to measure and compare the strongest predictors of future giving. This will provide an introduction to their Batch screenings and ProspectView Subscription services and tools. 
• A 10% discount on Batch Screenings and ProspectView Online Subscription 
• A batch screening allows you to submit as many as 2,000 (or more) donors to DonorSearch who will research each donor and return comprehensive reports that detail philanthropic histories, wealth markers, and other vital information. You can order as many batch screenings as you need, when you need them. 
• ProspectView is a comprehensive online tool that provides access to DonorSearch’s donor database (the nation’s largest) and premier analytics capabilities. 
• A 15% discount on multi-year subscriptions purchased in the first year of service – If you purchase a ProspectView subscription for 2 or more years, upfront, you will receive a 15% discount versus 10% off the annual cost 

In order to participate in this cost-saving benefit, you must be an NAO member and must be a new client of DonorSearch. 

NAO has partnered with TechImpact, whose mission is to empower communities and nonprofits to use technology to better serve our world. TechImpact provides live and scheduled trainings to help nonprofits do more with technology.

Value

All current NAO nonprofit members enjoy a 20% discount on registration fees to TechImpact courses.

Check out TechImpact’s upcoming courses here.

In partnership with the National Council of Nonprofits’ Safety Initiative and the Nonprofit Association of Oregon, Coeus Global offers discounted background checking and screening services for NAO’s Nonprofit Members. 

Screening of paid staff and volunteers is required for many nonprofits. The customized services provided by Coeus Global will allow your nonprofit to effectively conduct screenings of paid staff and volunteers, track your applicants’ background checks, and make the best decisions about who to hire/engage. 

Why are background checks important? A vital part of any volunteer management or hiring process, criminal background checking and screening help to: 

• Place the best possible candidate 
• Enhance your organization’s effectiveness through greater productivity and retention 
• Supplant your organization’s loss prevention efforts and provide a safer environment for employees, volunteers, and clients 

What is involved in a background check? Generally, background checks go back seven years and explore address, criminal, employment, and education history, as well as other areas such as motor vehicle and sex offenses, anti-terrorist activity, drug screening, professional licensure, and other federal criminal and civil records. 

Value 

On average, NAO 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Members save 62% on standard background screening options. 

Bliss Sequoia Insurance & Risk Advisors is a local Oregon-based company and is driven by a true desire to support the charitable organizations that make the Northwest a better place to live. Bliss Sequoia’s representatives are not simply insurance agents. They are advisors, and they will work for your organization’s best interest. 

Why Insure Nonprofit Directors & Officers? 

In today’s increasingly litigious environment, nonprofits must protect themselves. Nonprofit Directors & Officers have a personal liability exposure by virtue of the management decisions made for their organization and its financial assets. Obtaining Directors & Officers (D&O) insurance is a best business practice for any nonprofit, and one NAO highly recommends. 

Choosing NAO’s Directors & Officers Insurance Program not only helps protect your organization’s assets, but it provides legal defense and risk management advising. An important highlight of this program is Prior Acts coverage. This insures your organization for unknown circumstances in your past; going all the way back to organizational inception. Additionally, you’ll have access to a complimentary toll-free hotline for your employment inquiries. 

Coverage includes: 

• Directors & Officers Liability 
• Employment Practices Liability 
• $250,000 Fiduciary Liability & Workplace Violence sublimit included for no charge 
• Cost of legal defense is in addition to limit of liability at no additional charge 
• Prior Acts coverage 
• Volunteers, leased, seasonal and part time employees are included as insured persons 
• Third party coverage 
• Coverage for suits brought by qualifying independent contractors for Employment Practices Liability 
• Employed lawyers coverage 
• Definition of claim includes non-monetary relief 
• $150,000 sublimit for defense for Fair Labor Standards Acts (FLSA) claims 
• Personal injury coverage backstop 

• Copyright/Trademark coverage 
• Order of payment wording 
• Crisis fund for reputational damage done due to lost or stolen donor data 

  Risk management tools include: 

• Access to a toll-free hotline service providing complimentary telephone consultation pertaining to Employment Practice matters 
• Sample workplace policies providing guidance with preserving employment-at-will status, complying with the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act and prohibiting harassment in the workplace 
• A guide to help avoid workplace claims.  The guide contains general information about employment claims, hiring process, pre-employment testing and other potential workplace issues 
• Jackson Lewis will offer discounted billing rates to Great American insureds to assist in developing preventive practices, preparing employment handbooks and training supervisors. 

Value 

NAO members get special program pricing. Many nonprofits have experienced significant cost-savings through the program. 

 Actual NAO Member savings with the Program: 

• Largest overall percent savings – 64% 
• Largest monetary savings – $1,963 
• Largest deductible savings – $24,000 

  Claim Examples: 

• Directors & Officers Liability Claim Example 

• Private donors filed a misappropriation of funds lawsuit against a foundation’s board alleging the foundation did not purpose their donations to align with the foundation’s mission 
• Employment Practices Liability Claim Example 
• A CFO filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against her former employer alleging she was terminated because of her race. The employer had documented the termination was for poor performance and attendance. 
• Fiduciary Liability Claim Example 
• An employee filed a failure to disclose lawsuit against his employer alleging he was not informed his medical coverage was reduced when his employer changed medical insurance companies resulting in out-of-pocket medical expenses to the employee. 

Without Directors & Officers Insurance in place these claim examples would be the financial burden of the organization and board.  The cost to the organization is dependent upon claim specifics.  The above examples could range from $10,000 to over $250,000 in legal defense costs, awards and settlement. 

GNSA (Great Northern Staff Administrators) is a payroll, human resources, and benefits administration firm specializing in serving the small to middle market. GNSA is a professional outsource service provider committed to proactively assisting our clients in becoming more successful. 

Imagine the possibilities of partnering with a company who takes ownership and responsibility for the management of your organizations’s HR and Payroll functions. GNSA is a trusted partner that will help you evaluate your situation and provide you intelligent solutions to improve and streamline your workflow. 

GNSA is an SSAE 16 Type II certified service provider which means they uphold the highest standards to protect your company information and ensure its integrity, all while seamlessly integrating and improving your Payroll, Timekeeping, HR, and Human Capital Management functions. 

Value 

NAO Nonprofit Members receive discounts on the following services:  

35% off 

• Payroll Processing 

20% off 

• Time and Labor Management 
• HRMS (Applicant Tracking, Performance Management, Leave Management, Compensation Management) 
• ACA Management 
• Accrual Tracking 
• General Ledger Account Mapping 
• Carrier Interfaces 
• Employer Administrative Services 

Check out www.gnsadmin.com, select Resources and scroll down to see a variety of videos of the software.  

NAO has teamed up with Firespring to provide websites, integrated marketing tools, fundraising tools and educational content to NAO nonprofit organizational members at highly discounted rates.  

Firespring knows that the best nonprofit websites make it easy to manage events, launch branded fundraising campaigns and tell your story through a captivating design–all from one user-friendly content management system (CMS) with a cherry on top: live support to help it all run smoothly. 

A powerful, beautiful website is not only possible–it’s what Firespring helps thousands of nonprofits with every day. 

Value 

All current NAO nonprofit members have access to the following benefits provided by Firespring: 

• Basic Nonprofit Website 
• One month of monthly service free ($95 value) 
• Premium Nonprofit Website 
• Two months of monthly service free ($330 value) 
• SEO Consultation 
• Provides an in-depth consultation and personalized plan that positions the members website for long-term success ($500 value) 
• Free access to ongoing resources like blogs, ebooks, and webinars.