Stop chasing your team for updates.
Alignify gives your nonprofit team clear goals, a 60-second weekly check-in, and one dashboard that shows exactly who's on track — before your staff meeting and long before your board asks.
$99/mo or $999/yr · Unlimited staff · Setup in 15 minutes
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Built for mission-driven teams — youth programs, food banks, community services, foundations, and local chapters
Here's exactly what Alignify does for your nonprofit
Alignify is goal and meeting software for lean nonprofit teams. Every person sets a few clear goals and does a 60-second weekly check-in. Directors get one dashboard that shows who's on track and who needs help. And staff meetings stop being status updates and start solving real problems.
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Give your staff clear program goals
Each director and program lead sets two or three goals tied to where the organization is headed. No fifty-item to-do lists. Everyone knows what winning looks like this quarter.
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Reclaim your Monday meeting
Every staff member does a 60-second check-in before your meeting. You walk in already knowing who's on track and who's stuck — so meeting time gets spent solving, not reporting.
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Spot problems before they become emergencies
Your dashboard shows every goal in green, yellow, or red. You'll see a stalled initiative in week two — not the week before your board meeting or your grant report is due.
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Lead a team that actually moves the mission
Goals get finished. Staff feel supported. You spend your time developing leaders and building donor relationships instead of chasing status updates.
Purpose built for mission-driven teams
No corporate bloat. No complicated setup. Just the tools a lean nonprofit staff actually needs.
From annual strategy to quarterly action
Set your organization's annual goals — program outcomes, fundraising, volunteer growth, staff health — then break them into 90-day objectives. Assign owners so nothing falls through the cracks. Every staff member sees how their work connects to the mission.
- Annual & quarterly goal cascading
- Assign owners for every objective
- Visual progress tracking
Stop chasing updates from your team
You shouldn't need to ask "how's that going?" in every staff meeting. The dashboard shows you who's on track, who needs support, and what's behind — before you walk into the room or into a board update.
- Weekly check-ins at a glance
- Goal status by team member
- Early warning on stalled work
Staff meetings that actually solve problems
When everyone's already checked in, your staff meeting stops being a status update and starts being a strategy session. Built-in agendas, goal context, and action item tracking.
- One-on-ones with context
- Staff meeting agendas
- Action item tracking
Also included
Everything else your staff team needs
Impact Scorecard
People served, volunteer hours, donor retention, grant deadlines, program enrollment, cost per outcome — whatever moves the needle for your mission. Build a scorecard around the metrics that matter, set weekly or monthly targets, and see what's trending up and what needs attention.
Issues List
Every nonprofit has a running list of problems — broken systems, staffing gaps, off-track goals, frustrations no one is owning. Capture them in one place, sort them by status, and actually work them to resolution instead of rehashing them every staff meeting.
Staff Growth Plans
Simple development plans so every staff member is growing, not just grinding.
Poster Plan
One place to document your purpose, mission, values, and what makes your organization different — visible to the whole staff and easy to share with your board.
Teams
Create hubs for Programs, Development, Operations, and Volunteers. Team leaders see updates and each team tracks progress together.
Kudos & Recognition
Celebrate wins publicly. Build a culture of encouragement across the team.
Why Nonprofit Goal-Setting Fails
You've tried this before. Here's why it didn't stick.
Most goal frameworks were built for sales teams with revenue quotas. Mission work doesn't measure that way. We heard the same four problems from nonprofit leaders. Alignify fixes all four.
Wrong framework
Corporate systems assume revenue targets. Program outcomes and community impact don't work that way.
How Alignify helps
One simple formula — "From X to Y by When and Why" — that fits program, development, and operations goals alike.
Not actually goals
Most "goals" in a strategic plan are really priorities. They read well in a grant application but drive no weekly behavior.
How Alignify helps
Every goal has a clear outcome, deadline, and owner. Priorities become progress.
Set and forgotten
The board retreat ends, the strategic plan gets filed, and by March nobody's looking at it.
How Alignify helps
A 60-second weekly check-in and monthly review keeps goals in front of the team.
Nobody owns them
Goals assigned to "the team" move nobody — especially when everyone is wearing three hats.
How Alignify helps
One goal, one owner, visible status. Everyone knows who's carrying what.
The Three Commitments
Three commitments. Built into Alignify.
Most nonprofits never fully install these three. Alignify makes each one automatic.
1. Clarity
Three annual goals for the organization. Three quarterly goals per staff member. One owner each. Nothing vague.
2. Rhythm
Weekly check-in. Monthly review. Quarterly reset. Alignify runs the cadence — no new meetings.
3. Transparency
Every goal, owner, and status visible to the whole team. Program and development silos stop surviving.
Built for the way your team actually works
“This finally helped our team separate real goals from a big to-do list—and makes it clear what deserves a weekly update.”
“I was looking for a way to make our vision doable—so staff can see progress and we can track it in a consistent way.”
“We needed something simple enough for a not-very-tech-savvy team, without tons of admin overhead. This feels workable.”
Is this for us?
Alignify isn't for every nonprofit.
A quick gut-check before you sign up.
Perfect for you if…
- You lead a staff team of 3 to 50 people
- You're tired of chasing directors and program leads for updates
- Your staff meetings feel like status reports instead of strategy
- You have a strategic plan nobody looks at between board meetings
- You've tried spreadsheets, Asana, or Notion and it never stuck
Probably not for you if…
- ·You're a one-person organization without a staff team
- ·You need donor CRM, grant management, or volunteer scheduling (we're not that)
- ·You want a heavyweight project management tool with 40 custom fields
- ·Your team can't commit to a 2-minute check-in each week
One plan. No surprises.
We don't charge per seat because we don't want you thinking twice about who on your staff gets access. Your whole team. One price.
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Annual
Best value · ~$83/mo
More than software
Every plan includes hands-on support to help your team actually succeed with goal-setting.
Quarterly Goal-Setting Workshops
Live, online sessions every quarter. We walk through how to set practical, relevant goals for your programs and your team — and you leave with goals ready to go.
Annual Planning Workshop
Every December, join a dedicated session to turn your strategic plan into goals for the year ahead. Start January with total clarity.
Private Slack Community
Connect with other leaders using Alignify. Share what's working, ask questions, and learn from teams navigating the same challenges.
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On-demand training for nonprofit leaders
A short training on connecting your mission to the work your team does every week.
Why we built Alignify for mission-driven teams
Hi, I'm Michael. Before I built software, I spent twenty years leading mission-driven organizations and the staff teams inside them. The last decade I've spent building tools for those leaders.
I've watched too many good directors get crushed under the weight of leading a team without the right rhythms. Vision is rarely the problem. Activity is never the problem — everyone is busy. The middle — the goals, the weekly check-ins, the simple way to see who's on track — that's where most teams break down.
So we built Alignify with small teams, not for them. Months in private beta with organizations that told us what to build, what to cut, and what to rebuild.
It's the tool I wish I'd had. If you're going to use it every week, I want a real working relationship with you, not a support ticket.
Common questions from nonprofit leaders
Free guides for nonprofit leaders
Download them, use them with your team, no strings attached.
The Goal-Setting Guide
How to set three goals your staff can actually carry through the year, without a fifty-page strategic plan.
Get the free guideThe 1:1 Guide
A simple structure for one-on-one meetings with your staff, so they stop turning into status updates.
Get the free guideThe Next Ninety
A fill-in workbook for planning your organization's next quarter with your team in one sitting.
Get the free guidePick your best next step.
Whatever stage you're in, there's a next step that fits.
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Explore a sample account
A fully populated account you can click around in. No signup.
Open the sandboxOn demand
Watch a free training
Full workshops on goal setting, planning, and better staff meetings.
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Get the goal-setting guide
A practical guide to running three clear goals with a small team.
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