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Keep every donor, CSR partner and volunteer on one record, not in a programme officer's phone.

A CRM for an NGO is a single shared record of the people who fund, give and volunteer, with each conversation and renewal date beside the name. GullySales sets up the fields, the stages and the habits so a partnership survives a change of staff.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

Realistic editorial illustration of ngos at work in India

What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

Also for NGOs

Sales and marketing for NGOs, the overview.

Last updated 8 Nov 2026.

For NGOs

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The relationship lives in one person's phone”

    A programme officer holds the CSR contact, the last call and the promise made over tea. When that officer is transferred or on leave, the partner sees a stranger asking who they are, and the renewal restarts from nothing.

  • “A CSR partner moves through stages a spreadsheet cannot show”

    First enquiry, proposal sent, committee review, agreement, utilisation report and renewal are different moments with different owners. A flat list of names hides which partners are waiting on you and which are waiting on their committee.

  • “Donors and volunteers get mixed into one list”

    A person who gave once, a regular giver and a volunteer who came twice are three kinds of contact. One list makes a thank-you note go to the wrong person and an appeal go to someone who asked only to volunteer.

  • “Donor data carries a duty of care”

    Names, phone numbers and giving history are personal information. A CRM kept on a shared spreadsheet that anyone can forward is a risk. Who can see what, and what you may keep, is a question for your own adviser.

What we do

What we deliver for NGOs.

The work available for this need. We agree the deliverables and responsibilities for your engagement in writing.

  1. Stages built for a CSR partnership

    Stages from first enquiry to renewal, each with an owner and a next action, set in a tool your team will actually open.

    Result: Anyone can open a partner and see where it stands.

  2. Separate records for CSR, donors and volunteers

    Three contact types with their own fields, so an appeal, a thank-you and a shift invitation reach the right people.

    Result: A volunteer is not sent a fundraising appeal.

  3. Renewal dates visible against the financial year

    Each partnership with its agreement date, report due date and renewal conversation placed against the partner's own budget year.

    Result: You ask for a renewal while the budget is open.

  4. A tidy import of what you already hold

    Contacts from phones, old sheets and email brought into one record, with duplicates merged and the source noted.

    Result: One name appears once.

  5. Access rules written for your team

    Who can view, edit and export which records, written down with the adviser's input on consent and storage.

    Result: Giving history is not open to every volunteer.

  6. Source recorded on every enquiry

    Which programme page, post or introduction brought the enquiry, entered when the contact is created.

    Result: You can tell which page brought the CSR meeting.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Fields worth keeping

What an NGO's shared record should hold about each donor, partner and volunteer.

Relationship type
Filled by whoever creates the record: CSR partner, individual donor, trust, volunteer. Lets you send a company a proposal and a volunteer a rota, never the reverse.
Programme interest
Filled from the form or the first call. Lets you offer a school-meals donor an update on that programme instead of a general appeal.
Financial year of the commitment
Entered by the officer when a CSR grant is agreed. Shows which partners come up for renewal as the year closes and who has not yet been asked.
Consent to be contacted
Captured at the form or event and kept with the date and place. Lets the team write to a donor without guessing whether they agreed.
Receipt and registration details sent
Ticked by the accounts person once the receipt or certificate copy has gone out. Stops a donor being asked twice and a compliance team being kept waiting.
Last thing we told them
Updated by the officer after each call or report. Lets a colleague pick up the conversation if the programme officer is away.

Who it is for

This is written for these NGOs.

  • Grassroots community NGOs
  • CSR implementation partners
  • Educational and literacy NGOs
  • Healthcare and disability NGOs
  • Environmental and animal welfare NGOs
  • Disaster relief and rehabilitation NGOs
  • Women's self-help group and livelihood NGOs
  • Old-age and destitute care homes
  • Skill-training and livelihood NGOs

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Only one officer handles every donor and partner and prefers a notebook, so a shared record would go unfilled.
  • You have not yet decided who may see donor details, so putting them in a shared system would create a risk.

Before you decide

Agree the work. Know how to judge it.

CRM for NGOs: use these checks to prepare, choose the scope, and review what changes.

Bring the right evidence

List the records your team uses and show how an enquiry becomes an order today. Bring examples of duplicate entries, missing owners, and reports that require manual correction.

Make the scope clear

Agree the stages, required fields, access roles, and integrations before configuring the system. Separate software subscriptions from setup, data work, and training.

Check the work in use

Ask the people who will use the CRM to complete a real handover and find the next action without help. Check that the management report can be traced back to individual records.

Know when to change course

If the process is unclear, buying a more complex CRM adds more places for confusion. Start with the minimum fields and rules the team can use consistently.

These are discussion points, not a fixed package. GullySales confirms the deliverables, responsibilities, fee, and term in writing after reading your brief and speaking with you.

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Sales journey agreement

    Your sales lead explains how an enquiry becomes an order, using open deals as examples. We agree which steps belong in the CRM and identify decisions needing your approval.

  2. 2

    Configuration approval

    You approve stage definitions, required fields, ownership rules, and access. Unresolved choices are settled before configuration starts.

  3. 3

    Test environment decision

    We confirm whether your plan provides a trial copy or separate pipeline. Where neither is available, changes to the live system need an agreed approach before work proceeds.

  4. 4

    Connection and rule checks

    Enquiry connections are checked before automations are activated separately. Your nominated owner verifies where records arrive and which person receives each task.

  5. 5

    Sales team acceptance

    The people handling enquiries test open deals from entry through closure. Required corrections are resolved before you approve the switch.

  6. 6

    Switch and ownership handover

    The agreed configuration goes into use, and your CRM owner receives the final record. Any post-switch corrections included in the scope are documented before handover closes.

Proof

Published examples of our work.

Real clients and the work recorded for each engagement. These examples may cover related services or industries. They show the method, not a guaranteed result.

All case studies

  • LL Trust

    Situation
    The trust had no identity of its own, so nothing in how it presented itself distinguished it from comparable organisations competing for the same donors.
    What we did
    • Comparable organisations reviewed
    • Logo and branding
    • A palette that carries the values
    • Reviewed with the trust
    Result
    No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
    Read the case study

Also worked with

Chord Road Hospital · Curtain Label · Difesa Security Services · Felicity Inn · Hands On CSR · Implevista · Kambar Group · Kalessi · Kerur Pain Clinic · Lucky Deals · Natural Gases · NavaShakthi Souhardha · NewCom Logistics · Proton Technical Services · SB Engineering · Shakthi Foundation · Shakthi Group · Urbanest · Insyde Studio · Venkateshwara Laser Tech · Vivara Studios

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

Tell us what you need
Which CRM suits a small NGO?
The one your team will open daily. Some NGOs use HubSpot's free plan or Zoho CRM; others do better with a simple shared sheet and strict habits. We look at your staff and your volume before naming any tool.
Can the CRM send donation receipts?
Receipts and tax forms are normally handled by your donation platform and your accountant. The CRM records that a gift came and who thanked the donor. Check with your own adviser how receipts must be issued.
Who should own the CRM inside the NGO?
Name one person for the data and one for each relationship. Without an owner for the data, fields drift and the record stops being trusted. The programme officer owns the conversation, not the system.
Our records are in several officers' phones. Where do we start?
Start by collecting only the names that gave or enquired in the last financial year. A smaller clean list beats a large mixed one, and each officer then sees the same record. Add older contacts later, after the team trusts the new system.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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