Rippling Nonprofit Consulting & Implementation Services

Rippling helps nonprofits streamline HR, payroll, and IT operations, enabling them to focus on their mission. By automating administrative tasks like onboarding, benefits management, and compliance tracking, Rippling reduces overhead and ensures resources are allocated efficiently.

Benefits of Rippling solutions for nonprofits

Focus on your mission

With Rippling, nonprofits can streamline their operations and make data-driven decisions. They can better-manage relationships and operations, automate and expedite processes, and pursue their mission with less admin and manual work.

Automate Donor-Funded and Grant-Based Processes

Rippling’s automation capabilities simplify complex tasks like onboarding, benefits management, and compliance tracking, which are crucial for nonprofits managing donor-funded and grant-specific payrolls.

Boost your impact

With Rippling, nonprofits can streamline their operations and make data-driven decisions. They can better-manage relationships and operations, automate and expedite processes, and pursue their mission with less admin and manual work.

Challenges facing non profits

Managing limited HR resources

Nonprofits often operate with constrained budgets and small HR teams, making it challenging to handle administrative tasks like payroll, benefits, and compliance efficiently.

Navigating complex compliance requirements

Nonprofits must comply with various local, state, federal, and sometimes international labor laws, particularly when managing grants or donor-funded projects.

Supporting Remote and/or International Teams

Many nonprofits rely on remote or globally distributed teams, creating complexities in managing payroll, benefits, and compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

Attracting and Retaining Talent

Nonprofits often struggle to compete with for-profit organizations in offering competitive compensation and benefits.

Maintaining Transparency with Funders

Nonprofits are accountable to donors and grant providers for how resources are allocated, including staff costs.

Adapting to Digital Transformation

As nonprofits adopt more digital tools to manage operations, integrating systems like HR, payroll, and IT becomes a challenge.

Balancing Mission Priorities with Administrative Demands

Nonprofits often prioritize mission-driven activities over administrative functions, which can lead to underinvestment in efficient HR tools and processes.

Ensuring Equitable Employee Experiences

With diverse teams spanning multiple locations and roles, nonprofits face the challenge of creating consistent and equitable employee experiences.

Scaling HR Processes During Growth

Nonprofits experiencing rapid growth or expanding into new regions often find it difficult to scale HR processes efficiently.

Nonprofit industry solutions with Rippling HCM

Unified HR Platform for Mission-Driven Efficiency

Rippling consolidates HR functions like payroll, benefits, time tracking, and employee management into a single platform, tailored to help nonprofits manage their workforce efficiently.

Global Payroll for Distributed Teams

Rippling’s Global Payroll system simplifies paying staff and contractors across borders, ensuring compliance with local labor laws, tax regulations, and currency requirements.

Customizable Benefits for Retention

Rippling empowers nonprofits to design and manage benefits packages that resonate with employees’ unique needs.

Automated Compliance to Stay Grant-Ready

Rippling’s compliance tools automate labor law adherence, grant-specific payroll tracking, and audit preparation. Nonprofits can maintain transparency with donors and avoid penalties while focusing on delivering programs effectively.

Seamless Onboarding and Offboarding for Staff Transitions

Rippling streamlines onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring new hires are quickly integrated into payroll, benefits, and IT systems.

Workforce Analytics for Data-Driven Impact

Rippling’s analytics tools provide insights into staff costs, turnover rates, and engagement metrics. These data points help nonprofits optimize resource allocation and demonstrate efficiency and impact to stakeholders and funders.

Integration Hub for Nonprofit Tools

Rippling’s Integration Hub connects with tools nonprofits rely on, such as donor management systems, accounting software, and project management platforms.

IT Management for Volunteers and Remote Teams

Rippling’s IT Management tools simplify provisioning and deprovisioning software, devices, and accounts for staff and volunteers. Nonprofits can ensure secure access and operational continuity for teams working remotely or in the field.

Custom Workflow Automation for Nonprofit Processes

Rippling automates repetitive tasks like grant-specific payroll approvals, compliance tracking, and time-off management.

Implementing Rippling for Nonprofit organizations

1. Discovery

First, we understand your nonprofit organization and team’s specific needs, issues and goals.

Team members discussing and analyzing nonprofit organization needs, reflecting the discovery phase of understanding specific goals and challenges.

2. Implementation and customization

Next, we configure and customize Rippling to fit your needs and goals perfectly.

Team members adjusting Rippling settings to align with nonprofit objectives, highlighting the customization and implementation phase.

3. Integration

We connect your Rippling platform with your other key applications and data sources.

Team integrating Rippling with other key applications, showcasing the process of connecting various data sources for seamless operations.

4. Migration

If you have any crucial but outdated apps or databases, we can migrate these datasets to Rippling.

Team migrating crucial data from outdated systems to Rippling, ensuring seamless transfer of important datasets.

5. Training and Support

We help you with user onboarding, ongoing admin and end-user training and any support needs you may have.

Employees participating in training sessions, learning how to use Rippling effectively for better onboarding and support.

6. Managed Services

Our dedicated Managed Services practice can take over administration and maintenance for you.

Team members managing Rippling administration and maintenance, providing hands-on support for smooth platform operation.

Rippling Modules available

Our Rippling consultants give you the advantage of implementing the best Rippling module or app from the ecosystem to meet your needs. From initial discovery, implementation and configuration to more custom development and training, our experts ensure high user adoption rates, getting your people processes optimized quickly and efficiently.

Why choose thePeopleStack?

We are a full-service Rippling Consulting Partner, HR, compliance and payroll experts, delivering innovation for all sizes of clients across the entire Rippling platform.

Successful projects

We were an early and particularly vocal adopter of Rippling and boast the largest complement of successful implementations in the industry. With more to come.

Expert certifications

You can access our talent pool of Rippling Certified Administrators, Payroll, Expense and Learning Consultants as well as App Shop Developers to meet your business needs.

Years in operation

We are leading Rippling Consulting Partners and Expert HR practitioners. Our staff are constantly building on their knowledge with training and innovative projects.

Global presence

Our local client-facing team in North America coupled with our team of global contractors provide the right blend of quality and cost.

Dedicated support

Your business runs regardless of hours, weekends or holidays - and so do we. We craft client-specific SLAs to suit your specific needs.

Innovative

HR industry and HRIS expertise coupled to an overarching curiosity, with a human-centered innovation spirit

Agile to deliver effectively

For all projects from QuickStarts to multi-year enterprise transformation programs.

Flexible client services

Including consulting, outsourcing, custom development and managed services.

Cost effective

Blend of local and remote certified experts to provide engagement and delivery that is right for your business.

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FAQ

Why should nonprofits choose Rippling?

Rippling is an ideal choice for nonprofits because it provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use platform that simplifies HR, payroll, and IT operations, allowing organizations to focus on their mission rather than administrative burdens. Its automated compliance tools help nonprofits adhere to labor laws and grant-specific requirements, reducing the risk of penalties and ensuring audit readiness.

How can I measure impact with Rippling?

From a nonprofit perspective, Rippling helps measure impact by providing actionable workforce data, streamlining operations, and ensuring compliance, allowing organizations to focus more resources on mission-driven activities.

How does Rippling help with grant management?

Rippling helps with grant management by streamlining HR and payroll processes, ensuring compliance, and providing detailed reporting capabilities tailored to meet the unique requirements of grant-funded programs. Here's how:

Grant-Specific Payroll Tracking: Rippling allows nonprofits to allocate staff payroll expenses to specific grants, ensuring accurate tracking of labor costs and adherence to grant funding restrictions.

Automated Compliance Management: Rippling’s compliance tools ensure that labor laws and grant requirements, such as overtime rules and employee classifications, are met, reducing the risk of non-compliance and penalties.

Custom Reporting for Funders: With advanced reporting tools, Rippling enables nonprofits to generate detailed and accurate reports showing how funds were allocated to salaries, benefits, and administrative costs, helping to meet donor and regulatory requirements.

Streamlined Onboarding and Offboarding: For grant-funded projects requiring temporary or seasonal staff, Rippling automates onboarding and offboarding workflows, ensuring smooth transitions and proper allocation of resources.

Real-Time Cost Monitoring: Rippling provides insights into workforce expenses, allowing nonprofits to monitor grant spending in real time and make adjustments to ensure funds are used effectively and within budget.

Integration with Accounting Systems: Rippling integrates seamlessly with accounting tools, enabling nonprofits to sync payroll data with grant budgets and financial reporting systems for a comprehensive view of grant expenditures.

What are your options?

If you are taking your first steps with Rippling HRIS, or evolving your existing platform, our experts can match your needs with either full-service consulting and delivery projects, staff augmentation or support.

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