Ember Reviews & Product Details

Ember is simple, affordable software for small nonprofits. It puts the whole job in one place: programs, volunteers, grants, donors, budget, staff time, board meetings, compliance deadlines and a free public page. It is built for grassroots groups, all-volunteer teams, fiscally sponsored projects, churches, schools, PTAs and founders who are just getting started. Grants in a spreadsheet. Volunteers in your inbox. Donor notes in someone's head. Most small nonprofits run on scattered tools. Ember replaces them with one shared record, so your numbers move on their own. Hours you log against a program show up in the grant report, and you never type the same number twice. What you can do with Ember: Volunteer management: post shifts, let volunteers sign up from their phones, keep a waitlist, remind volunteers three days before a shift, approve hours, and track background checks and credentials that need renewing. Program tracking and impact reports: log what each program does, set goals and see running totals. Turn them into an impact report you can save as a PDF for your board or a funder. Grant management: track every grant, what it funds and when each report is due. Donor management: record gifts, including in-kind and restricted gifts, work through a thank-you queue, prepare year-end letters, and import past gifts from a Givebutter, Donorbox or Stripe file. Budget and staff time: budget by program with restricted funds tracked separately, and log staff time by program. Board management: agendas, board packets emailed to your board, motions, votes, minutes and conflict-of-interest statements. Compliance: one calendar of your Form 990 and state renewal dates. Starting a nonprofit: a step-by-step founding checklist, from your mission and bylaws to your EIN and IRS Form 1023, with starting drafts along the way. Pricing that fits a small budget: your price is set by your annual budget, not by how many users or contacts you have. Organizations with a budget under $50,000 a year pay nothing. Above that, it is a flat monthly rate by budget range. Every plan includes every app and unlimited users, with no per-seat fees. No credit card to start, and your data is always yours to export. Turn on only the apps you need, and add the rest later.