Buan Consulting, Inc., headquartered in Annapolis, MD, and Exponent Partners, Inc., located in San Francisco, CA, announced their alliance intended to improve the management and delivery of constituent services for nonprofits and government agencies.
Buan Consulting is a provider of secure, customized knowledge management to government agencies and Exponent Partners is an organization dedicated to increasing the capacity of nonprofit
organizations through information technology. Both organizations are leading, authorized consulting partners in their respective fields for Salesforce.com which they plan to customize for
nonprofits and government agencies. Partnering to share expertise, resources, and best practices, and collaborating on joint opportunities, will provide nonprofits and government agencies
with better products and services for coordinating and managing constituent relationships.
"Nonprofit organizations and government agencies at all levels are serving overlapping constituencies," said Rem Hoffmann, CEO of Exponent Partners. "To improve service delivery and
coordination, it makes sense for leading consultancies serving both types of organizations to work together. Jointly, Exponent Partners and Buan Consulting will create products and
services tailored specifically to serve the needs of both nonprofits and government agencies. This will help them to interact more effectively with their constituencies and ultimately
provide them better services."
Bob Bennett, CEO of the Family Service Agency of San Francisco (FSA) and client of Exponent Partners, said, "Nonprofits like FSA interact with government agencies in many areas such as
funding, performance reporting, service coordination, and communication. Exponent Partners has been a phenomenal partner in building our revolutionary automated client and case management
system, which it named CIRCE. For example, it added capabilities allowing us to better measure client progress and to modify treatment accordingly. Our caseworkers have been able to
increase their time spent directly with clients by over 30 percent, enhancing client recovery. In addition, CIRCE integrates the salesforce.com application with county and government
forms, streamlining our reporting processes. FSA views an alliance that adds government-agency experience to Exponent Partners' services as extremely beneficial to us, to other
nonprofits, and to the government agencies we work with."
Dan Buan, CEO of Buan Consulting, said, "Our alliance with Exponent Partners, along with our salesforce.com experience, enables us to customize nonprofits' and government agencies'
salesforce.com solution to ensure that their employees, constituencies, partners and other stakeholders are able to be more productive quickly. Having a collection of solutions that can
be used in both markets will provide accelerated deployments to help nonprofits and government agencies create stronger relationships with those they serve."
About Buan Consulting
Buan Consulting, Inc. (www.exponentpartners.com) is a social-venture consulting firm committed to improving performance of civil society organizations. Exponent Partners operates with a
clear mission to increase the capacity of nonprofit organizations through information technology. It offers two broad sets of services:
- Strategic consulting. Experts in business planning, technology strategy, and software selection, Exponent Partners staff develop innovative and effective technology strategies to help
ensure clients' mission success.
- Mission-critical applications. Exponent Partners is the leader in building on-demand applications to help nonprofits engage their constituents, manage their programs, and measure their
performance.
Nonprofits that have benefited from Exponent Partners expert consultant services include Room to Read, Family Services Agency of San Francisco, N-TEN, Neighborhood Parks Council, American
Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, VolunteerMatch, Community Technology Foundation of California, Compumentor, London Advice Services Alliance, TechFinder, Grantmakers For
Education, and Northern California Community Loan Fund.
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