Data Services
Your data should drive decisions, prove impact, and fuel your mission — but getting there takes more than software. Our experienced consultants partner with you to create a complete data strategy built around the technical and human factors that make nonprofit data actually work. We combine hands-on consulting, custom database development, capacity building, and a collaborative peer network to grow your data maturity over time. Grounded in a Data Justice framework co-created with our members, we help you collect, use, and share data in ways that center participant dignity, privacy, and community accountability.
Are MACC Data Services right for you?
Our Data Services are a good fit if you are a human services nonprofit working in partnership with your community to build a world where everyone thrives in strong, healthy, vibrant equitable communities. We’ll be a great match if you’re looking for data infrastructure that proves your impact, drives learning, and honors the dignity of the communities you serve.
Stronger Together Through Shared Learning
Great Data is Built Together
Shared tools power shared services
The Data Infrastructure Your Mission Deserves
Our consultants approach nonprofit data holistically, working alongside your team customizing your database, building your capacity, and using a train-the-trainer approach that grows lasting data skills inside your organization. We make sure your data works for you and your community, not the other way around!
- Strategic consulting that transforms how you collect, use, and act on your data
- Powerful case management and outcome-tracking software built for human services nonprofits
- Custom software solutions that fit your programs and clients
- Real-time insight into program performance and participant outcomes
- Reporting that proves impact to funders and drives smarter program decisions
- Capacity building that grows alongside your team’s data skills
- A curated and supportive community of peers to lean on and learn from
- A justice driven approach to data that honors your community’s dignity and privacy
We joined MACC when we decided it was finally time to transition from paper files to a client database. We quickly learned how much more MACC is than just an administrative services provider (although those are important, and we love the Data Services team). The learning opportunities, the advocacy, and the shared solution-finding really demonstrate how much more powerful we are when we collaborate. I’m always excited to see what the next MACC Zooms In or podcast is going to be, because it inevitably will be just what I need at that moment.
Nonprofit Data Management, Consulting, and Capacity Building
When you join MACC, you’re not just getting a database, you’re tapping into a shared team of experts with deep experience implementing, customizing, and troubleshooting nonprofit data systems across dozens of diverse organizations. Every complex migration, every impossible funder report, every time the system got in the way of the mission — we’ve been there, learned from it, and built that knowledge into how we serve every member. We meet you where you are and grow with you.
Industry-Leading Software
Custom Development
Capacity Building
The MACC Data Network
Staff Contact
Are you a current MACC member with questions about your Data Service? Or interested in learning how our Data Services support can strengthen your team and your work? Reach out to us!
Related Resources
Check out these great Data focused resources from our network learning opportunities, podcast episodes, conversations, tools and more!
And find tons more helpful resources on a wide range of nonprofit topics on our resource hub!
E-Goodie Bag: Data Justice Futures
After event e-goodie bag from our 2024 event Data Justice Futures: Data Justice in Philanthropy. An event co-hosted by MACC and the Twin Cities Innovation Alliance. Where philanthropic and nonprofit leaders, data practitioners, and other key partners came together to explore the vital role of philanthropy in advancing data justice.
Data Justice Standards
The MACC Data Justice Standards are a practical guide for human service organizations committed to collecting, using, and sharing data with integrity. Developed collaboratively by our Data Network’s Data Justice working group, they outline two core commitments — Do Good and Reduce Harm — with specific, actionable steps for centering participants, reducing barriers to services, protecting data, and elevating equitable funding practices.
Our Vision
Everyone has the right to well-being. We envision a future where individuals and families live in strong, healthy, vibrant, and equitable communities. Where everyone has high quality housing, healthy food, robust healthcare, equitable education, excellent child and elder care, accessible transportation, nearby community centers, and neighborhood spaces to gather in and enrich their lives.
2026 MACC Advocacy Debrief
A debrief summarizing the outcomes and takeaways from MACC’s 2026 state advocacy work. We advocate for the conditions human services organizations need to thrive — fair pay for workers, data that serves communities rather than burdens them, and a public narrative that reflects the real value of this work. Dig into our advocacy priorities, definitions, platform, and outcomes.
2025 MACC Network Advocacy Messages
We bring together the voices, wisdom, and influence of our collective to co-create a better narrative for our sector that support’s our network’s shared vision for equitable, thriving, abundant communities. We asked our network leaders to share their perspectives to directly shape our advocacy messaging for the coming year.
Data Justice Report 2024
A 2024 report from MACC’s Data Justice Cohort describing the harms of extractive nonprofit data collection practices and outlining concrete actions organizations and funders can take to build equity into how data is collected, shared, and used.
