Managed IT for Montana nonprofits.
We work with 501(c)(3) organizations to control their technology costs and help them reach their goals, on a fixed monthly fee your board can plan around.
Two ways nonprofits work with us.
Pick the one that describes your team. Both are a monthly fee your board can plan around.
Managed IT Essentials
We become your IT team: help desk, patching, backup and security for every device.
Co-managed support
We back up your staff on infrastructure, cybersecurity, planning and budgets.
IT your board can plan around.
The questions a board or finance committee asks about IT, answered before you sign.
One line in the budget
A fixed monthly fee with no built-in annual increase.
Projects on their own line
Upgrades, camera systems and phone installs are quoted separately, so each one can go to your board on its own.
Remote or onsite, your choice
Several organizations we support are fully remote. Others add regular onsite visits.
Help for every staff member
Remote help desk and phone support, without waiting for a visit.
An inventory first
We look at what you already have and where it can improve before we start managing it.
Montana offices
Onsite visits planned from Great Falls and Billings, with remote support anywhere in the state.
Protect the data your mission runs on.
Every Managed IT plan includes layered security and tested backups, so protecting donor, client and staff records isn't an add-on.
Layered security
Firewalls, endpoint protection, email filtering, secure remote access and multi-factor authentication, managed for you.
Backup and recovery
Servers, shared files and key cloud apps backed up, and the backups tested on a schedule.
Continuity planning
A recovery plan built around your programs, locations and vendors.
A number your board can budget for.
A fixed monthly fee replaces the surprise invoices of break-fix billing, so you know what support costs before the budget goes to your board.
| Break-fix billing | Schoolhouse IT | |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | A bill each time something breaks | One fixed monthly fee you can budget for |
| When problems get found | When someone notices and calls | We monitor your network and critical systems and fix issues before your team feels them |
| Next year's cost | Hard to predict | Set up front, with no built-in annual increase |
| Hardware trouble | Billed by the hour to diagnose | With onsite support in your plan, we triage and help order parts; you pay only for the hardware |
The same plans, published.
Nonprofits choose from the same published plans as businesses, priced per device with remote support included.
- Remote help desk and phone support
- Patching, including third-party software
- Endpoint and server backup
- EDR on every machine, with malicious code blocked and logged
- Scheduled security awareness training for all staff, with reporting
- Security software for users and devices
- Infrastructure and network support
- Cybersecurity setup and management
- Long-term planning and budgeting help
- Coordination with your IT staff
Estimates at $75 per device a month plus the per-user charge.
Your number comes from one conversation about your devices and users.
Schedule a callProjects are quoted separately. Upgrades, camera systems and phone installs are quoted as projects, and can be bundled.
See pricingQuestions about nonprofit IT.
Do nonprofits get different plans?
No. Nonprofits choose from the same plans as businesses: managed IT per device, or co-managed support for a set monthly amount.
Which plan fits a nonprofit with no IT staff?
Managed IT Essentials. We become your IT team: help desk, patching, backup and security for every device, from $75 per device a month plus a small per-user charge.
We already have someone who handles IT. Can you work with them?
Yes. Co-managed support backs up your staff on infrastructure, cybersecurity, planning and budgets, starting at $700 a month.
Can our board see pricing before we talk?
Yes. Starting prices for businesses and nonprofits are published on our pricing page, and the example bills on this page show what Essentials adds up to.
Do you support nonprofits outside Great Falls and Billings?
Yes. The remote help desk works wherever you are in Montana, and onsite visits are planned from our Great Falls and Billings offices.
Let's talk about your organization.
No pressure or hard sell. We'll talk through your needs and help you figure out what makes sense.
- 1Tell us about your organizationSize, staff and what is taking up your time.
- 2We talk it throughA conversation about what makes sense, not a sales pitch.
- 3Just comparing prices?Starting prices for businesses and nonprofits are on our pricing page.
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