- Manage every device across your NPO workforce
- Manage nonprofit devices with less IT overhead
- How Mobile Device Manager Plus supports nonprofit teams
- MDM for every nonprofit use case
- What weak device management can cost a nonprofit
- Why nonprofit organizations need MDM
- Why choose Mobile Device Manager Plus
- Run every device from one console
- Frequently asked questions
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Manage every device across your NPO workforce
A nonprofit's device fleet rarely looks like a typical office. Staff laptops sit alongside donated tablets that arrived from last year's hardware drive, volunteers show up with their own phones, and field coordinators carry devices between program sites that may not have reliable signal for days at a time. Every one of those devices still needs to work, stay secure, and be ready the moment someone needs it, usually with no dedicated IT staff standing by to set it up.
Mobile Device Manager Plus brings all of them under one console, across Android, iOS, iPadOS, Windows, macOS, and Chrome OS. Instead of a separate tool for every platform or every office, a small IT function, often one or two people, manages the entire fleet from a single dashboard, from a caseworker's laptop to a volunteer's personal phone, and from a donated tablet to a shared device that rotates through a field team. That single view is what makes it practical to keep a growing, mixed fleet consistent and secure without adding headcount.
Manage nonprofit devices with less IT overhead
The goal for a nonprofit is a device that is ready when a volunteer or staff member picks it up, without turning setup, support, or offboarding into a full-time job for a team that does not have one to spare. Here is how Mobile Device Manager Plus makes that happen.
Simplify device enrollment and provisioning
Onboard organization-owned devices in bulk with zero-touch setup, and let volunteers enroll their own phones through self-enrollment or an invitation link, without walking each person through setup by hand.
Configure devices for employees and volunteers
Apply the right apps, access, and restrictions for each type of user in one step, based on what the role actually needs rather than what is convenient to apply broadly.
Distribute apps and organizational resources remotely
Push apps, documents, and content to the right teams, install them silently, and update or remove them over the air.
Lock down donation kiosks and event devices
Self-service donation kiosks and event registration tablets should do one job and nothing else. Use Kiosk Mode to lock these devices to a single app or a fixed set of apps, so a device set up for a gala or a donation drive stays focused on that purpose and resets cleanly once the event ends.
Secure organization-owned and BYOD devices
Manage owned devices fully. For volunteers' and staff phones, use containerization to protect work data while leaving personal content untouched and outside the organization's visibility.
Protect sensitive donor and organizational data
Enforce encryption and passcodes, allow only trusted apps to reach confidential files, and apply data-sharing controls so donor information cannot end up in unmanaged apps.
Manage shared and field devices
Configure shared devices so each new user starts in a clean, controlled state. This matters for devices that move between volunteers and field teams, where access should not accumulate across people who no longer need it.
Maintain visibility into device inventory
Keep an accurate record of every device, its status, and its compliance, so you know what you have and where it is without physically collecting devices to check.
Troubleshoot and secure devices remotely
Resolve issues over the air, and lock or wipe a lost device without needing it back in hand.
How Mobile Device Manager Plus supports nonprofit teams
Provisioning with less IT overhead
Manage the full device life cycle over the air. Onboard devices, apply the right access and policies, distribute apps and resources, and step in remotely when something needs fixing, all without a large IT team or hands-on setup for each device.
Secure BYOD for staff and volunteers
Let staff and volunteers use their own phones for the organization's work without the organization taking over the device. A separate, encrypted work space holds organizational data, personal content stays private, and only the work data is removed when a volunteer's term ends.
Budget-friendly for organizations of any size
Manage up to 25 devices free forever with the full-featured free edition, start with a 30-day trial for unlimited devices on paid editions, and take advantage of the discounts ManageEngine offers to nonprofit organizations on paid editions.
Mobile device management for every nonprofit use case
Employees
Full management of organization-owned laptops, tablets, and phones, with the apps and security each role needs.
Volunteers
Containerized BYOD management that protects organizational data on personal phones while leaving personal apps untouched.
Field teams
Secure, tracked devices for staff working in the community or in the field, with support that does not require the device to come back to the office.
Fundraising and event teams
Devices set up for donations, registration, and events, ready to go and easy to reset to a clean state afterward.
Shared devices
Tablets and phones that move between people, configured to reset cleanly so each new user starts from a known state.
Remote workers
Secure access to email, files, and internal apps regardless of where staff are based.
Multi-location nonprofit organizations
Central management across offices and program locations from one console, instead of one setup process per location.
What weak device management can cost a nonprofit
Every unmanaged laptop, donated tablet, and volunteer's phone holding donor or program data is a potential way in for an attacker, and nonprofits are not too small to be targeted. Nonprofits often hold exactly the kind of sensitive data attackers want, including donor names, addresses, payment details, and sometimes case records, while running with minimal IT budgets and little dedicated security staff.
The sector has already seen what a single lapse can cost. In 2020, a ransomware attack on Blackbaud, a software vendor widely used by nonprofits for donor and constituent management, exposed personal data belonging to donors and constituents across more than 13,000 organizations. In October 2023, Blackbaud reached a $49.5 million multistate settlement with 49 state attorneys general over its data security practices and its response to the breach. The organizations affected did not cause the breach themselves, but many still had to notify their own donors and answer for it.
Without centralized device management, the everyday gaps that lead to incidents like this go unchecked. A nonprofit that skips proper MDM is exposed to:
- Regulatory and legal costs from state breach notification laws and similar rules when donor and program data is not adequately protected.
- Breach response and notification costs, from investigation and remediation through to notifying every affected donor.
- Lost donor trust and reduced giving, which usually outlasts and outweighs any fine or settlement.
- Data walking out the door on a lost or stolen volunteer phone that cannot be located, locked, or wiped.
- Access that outlives its need, when a volunteer's or staff member's device retains organizational data or access long after their term has ended.
Why nonprofit organizations need MDM
Left unmanaged, a nonprofit's devices create the kind of problems that put donor trust and program continuity at risk. These are the pressures an MDM is built to relieve:
- IT resources are limited. Most nonprofits do not have a large IT team, so anything that reduces manual device work is time back for the mission.
- BYOD is common. Staff and volunteers often use their own phones, which need to be secured without taking them over.
- People are distributed. Teams spread across offices, field sites, and homes are hard to support without remote management.
- Donor and organizational data must be protected. A lost or unmanaged device holding sensitive information is a real risk to trust and compliance.
- Shared devices need control. Devices that pass between hands should reset to a known, secure state each time.
- Apps and configurations drift. Keeping everything current by hand does not hold up as the organization grows.
Why choose Mobile Device Manager Plus for nonprofit device management?
Mobile Device Manager Plus covers the full range of nonprofit devices and the operations built around them, from a single console:
- Multi-OS management across Android, iOS, iPadOS, Windows, macOS, and Chrome OS from one console.
- Bulk enrollment with automated setup for organization-owned devices.
- BYOD management through containerization that separates work and personal data on volunteers' and staff phones.
- App and content distribution with silent installs and over-the-air updates.
- Policy enforcement for encryption, passcodes, and restrictions, applied consistently across owned and personal devices.
- Inventory visibility across every device and location.
- Remote troubleshooting so a small team can support devices anywhere, including areas with limited connectivity.
- Lost-device actions including remote lock, wipe, and location tracking.
- Cloud and on-premises deployment, with a free edition for up to 25 devices and discounts for nonprofit organizations on paid editions.
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Run every nonprofit device from one console
From staff laptops to volunteers' own phones, and from a single office to program sites spread across a region, Mobile Device Manager Plus lets you enroll, secure, and support every device your organization depends on without touching each one by hand. The result is donor data that stays protected, volunteers and staff who can work securely on the devices they already have, and an IT team, however small, that spends its time on the mission rather than on device firefighting. Start a 30-day free trial and bring your nonprofit's fleet under one console.
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