Our mission is to empower nonprofit organizations to harness the full potential of information technology.
Enabling Digital is dedicated to empowering nonprofit organizations to harness the full potential of information technology, align people and processes, and leverage trusted data to achieve mission success.
Our inclusive approach to collaborating with the people across your organization is key to our success. We connect strategy directly to the tactical and operational, bringing together complementary skills, shared values, and a commitment to excellence.
What’s our superpower? Finding common ground that enables teams to make challenging and impactful choices. We do this by embracing your team’s diverse needs, viewpoints, and priorities. We set teams up for success in achieving meaningful change in complex situations.
We are committed to delivering real value to organizations working towards a better world.
Why Choose Us?
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We know nonprofits
At Enabling Digital, nonprofits are our sole focus. We work exclusively with regional, national, and international nonprofit organizations. Our team members each bring over 25 years of experience working with leading nonprofit organizations. We understand your unique challenges and what it takes to make technology successful from the inside out.
Our team members have held management positions at large nonprofit organizations. Our extensive, hands-on knowledge provides us with unique insights into the organizational dynamics of nonprofit organizations. We have been in your shoes and understand what it takes to make technology initiatives successful, with unparalleled insights into nonprofit culture and operations.
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We are experts in Software Selection and supporting technology implementation projects
Our team has facilitated numerous software selection initiatives for a variety of nonprofits and supported many of those clients through successful implementations, user adoption, and ongoing value realization.
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We are 100% vendor-independent and technology-agnostic
We have no financial ties to any vendor. This means our recommendations are always in your best interest, free from conflicts of interest. We stay deeply knowledgeable about the solutions marketplace and maintain good relationships and communication with vendors to provide you with valuable expertise and insights on their offerings and product roadmaps, services, and degree of customer satisfaction.
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We embrace an inclusive project approach
We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential components of successful technology projects. We design our projects to ensure everyone feels welcomed, heard, respected, and valued. This is the most effective way to ensure our work delivers lasting value.
We do this by clearly establishing decision-making roles and processes to ensure that all voices are heard and that decisions are made in an inclusive and equitable manner.
We create an environment where it is comfortable to take risks, where the participants are representative of the overall team, and where the roles are rotated regularly to ensure that every voice is heard. We are transparent about how decisions are made and strive to ensure that all perspectives are considered.
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We are able to field the best team for each engagement
Our team members come from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and we have a broad network built over decades of experience and collaboration. We assemble the right team based on the needs of each project
We attract and retain top talent and minimize our carbon footprint. We are deliberate in structuring our organization to support team members in a variety of circumstances. We are flexible in engaging team members and independent contractors. This allows us to offer a full complement of skilled resources required to assemble the best teams for each individual engagement and deliver solutions that are a value-add at rates that are reasonable for the nonprofit clients we serve.
We encourage communication and mutual respect and understanding. After each engagement, we hold internal “retrospectives” making a concerted effort to capture lessons learned, reflect on how each team member personally experienced their role throughout the project, and where we could have done better. Over time, these retrospective exercises have led us to update our approach to facilitating meetings, coordinating schedules, methods for brainstorming, and methods for expressing anxiety or challenging and supporting each other.
As leaders, we intentionally express our vulnerabilities and uncertainties, to model behavior we hope to see across our team and with our clients. We constantly remind ourselves to strive to listen and exhibit curiosity, rather than debate and advocate.
Our Services
Ideate
- IT Roadmaps and Strategic Planning
- Virtual CIO Services
- Organizational and IT Strategic Alignment (IT Governance Model Design)
- Visioning
- Constituent Journey Mapping
- Use Case Development
- Business Intelligence and Data-Informed-Decision-Making Culture
- Applications Architecture Design
- Data & Revenue Sharing Model Design
- Board of Directors Alignment & Support
Facilitate
- Software Selection
- Partner and Agency Selection
- Organizational Structure/Staffing Design
- Business Process Optimization & Playbooks
- Change Readiness Development
- IT Governance Design
- Data Governance Design
- Capacity Planning
- Organizational Structure & Staffing Design
Operate
- Virtual CIO Services
- Data Management and Data Governance
- New User Onboarding and Ongoing Training
- Policy & Procedure Guides
- Office 365 Design Configuration and Administration
- Reports and Dashboards
- Data Flows & Integrations
- Data Quality and Hygiene
- Moves Management Workflow Configuration
Orchestrate
- Project Management
- Change Management and Executive Sponsor Coaching
- Software Implementation
- Owners Representative
- Project Management
- Design & Configuration Advisory
- Data Conversion Validation
- User Acceptance Testing
- Policy & Procedure Development
- Staffing & Supplemental Resourcing Model Design
- Database Migrations
- Office 365 Implementation
Evaluate
- CRM Best Practices Assessment
- Grants Management Assessment
- Application & Data Assessment
- Operational Assessment
- KPI’s, Success Metrics & Evaluation
- Revenu Processing Evaluations
- Database Health Checks
- Project Retrospectives
Who We’ve Worked With
We are a values-based company and we believe in working with nonprofits that are committed to making this a better world—in terms of cultural significance, education, racial and social justice, and the health and wellbeing of all life on the planet. We are selective in who we engage with to ensure our values and those of our clients align. Enabling Digital works exclusively with regional, national, and international nonprofit organizations across many different sectors.
- Arts, Culture & Humanities
- Education & Research
- Environmental & Animal Welfare
- Health
- Human & Social Services
- Philanthropic
- International Development & Relief
- Public, Societal Benefit
Our Team
Alan Levine
Founder
Alan builds on over 30 years of senior IT and business leadership experience to guide organizations in creative uses of information technology to achieve their desired business outcomes. Alan served as a managing partner with Barker & Scott Consulting before transitioning its consulting services to Enabling Digital. He has advised national and international organizations of all sizes, served as an Executive Coach to individual CIO and senior IT leaders, and is a regular presenter on expert panels at non-profit and IT industry conferences. Alan has served as a virtual CIO for organizations including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Covenant House International, The League of Women Voters, and the Children’s Science Center. He is a founding member of the worldwide CIO Executive Council and a co-founder of the Board of the Tessitura Network, Inc. that provides state-of-the-art software for customer relationship management, ticketing, and fundraising to museums, zoos, aquariums and performing arts organizations in six countries.
Casey Empey
Senior Consultant
Casey is a business leader with a unique mix of in-depth analytical knowledge and client service success, focused on nonprofit technologies and consulting. For more than ten years, she has worked with nonprofits to help clients optimize results. A former Professional Services Director at Blackbaud, Casey oversaw multiple service groups, whose responsibilities included the implementation of nonprofit CRM software, retainer services, and analytical offerings. Earlier in her career at Integral, Casey provided strategic analytical services utilizing complex and custom datasets. Before working with nonprofits, Casey was a consultant for Arthur Andersen, where she was instrumental in key litigation support, intellectual property, and strategic projects for Fortune100 companies.
Vicki Ann Frawley
Senior Consultant
Vicki is a proven leader who leverages more than 20 years of experience working with non-profits in order to help organizations drive bottom line results. She brings her clients a holistic approach to successfully drive projects through to closure—always mindful of both change management and people development. Vicki is also a dedicated personal development coach focused on fostering an environment for transformative change in her clients. One of Vicki’s strengths is her ability to work through short term activities and tactics while maintaining a view toward achieving strategic objectives.
Certifications: ADKAR® Change Management Methodology (by Prosci), Professional Proactive Coach (from the Coaches Training Institute), The Leadership Circle Profile Administrator.
Lachelle McMillan, PMP
Senior Consultant
Lachelle has over 20 years experience collaborating with organizations to drive success for information technology related initiatives. Her experience spans all aspects of enterprise technology management and project leadership, with a strong focus on project management of large, complex implementations, and business analysis. Previously, as Director of Information Technology for PRA International, she oversaw all aspects of the back-office systems, managed the enterprise systems portfolio, and ensured projects aligned with strategic initiatives. Lachelle also led global system implementations at Baker Tilly (previously Beers + Cutler) and was a Manager at Deloitte & Touché and at Arthur Andersen.
Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP), ADKAR® Change Management Methodology.
Barry Smith
Fractional CIO and Senior Consultant
Barry brings over 30 years of experience in all aspects of technology and operations management. His career includes Big Six consulting (Coopers & Lybrand), Fortune 500 IT management (Marriott International), a Silicon Valley startup (NetDynamics, now a division of Sun), and building nationally recognized, award-winning IT departments at the City of Gaithersburg, Maryland as well as the privately held Merkle Inc. He is dedicated to interpersonal collaboration and alignment, deeply understanding business models, and the practical implementation of stable, secure, scalable and useful technologies.
Certifications: ITIL, PMP, CSM, CSPO and CISM.
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