“Excellent security, customer service, and support drive internal participation and community engagement and are great tools for sharing resources, updates, and collaboration across the organization.”
Theresa M.
Earthjustice
Intranet for Nonprofits & NGOs
Secure intranet software for nonprofits, NGOs, trusts, and think tanks
Bring staff, volunteers, program teams, and your board into one place — each with the right level of access — so your people spend less time wrangling tools and more on the mission.
Trusted by leading nonprofits
What staff, volunteers, and program teams do with Axero every day
Be good stewards to the community you serve.
The more efficient your nonprofit is, the further you can stretch every dollar. If staff and volunteers have ten browser tabs open on top of separate communication and collaboration apps, they're spending more time managing tools than serving their community. Axero brings that digital workplace into one place, so your people can focus on what matters most.
News, announcements, and updates are easy to share.
Keep everyone in the loop with a range of publishing tools. Post critical information as an article, start a discussion on a hot topic, or send a quick status update. You can target messages so exactly the right people see them, and make anything required reading with one click.
Collect everyone's expertise in one searchable place.
Your volunteers, coordinators, administrators, staff, and partners bring a lot of knowledge to the table. Axero centralizes that expertise and makes it easy to find with knowledge management features that build a living, searchable library as your team works — no messy shared drives required.
Find your people.
Unlock a social intranet with the Axero directory and member profiles. Profiles aren't just contact cards — they carry activity feeds, authored content, connections, and group memberships. You and your team decide what's public, what's private, and what's shared only with connections.
Collect volunteer applications and event sign-ups without a separate tool.
Volunteer applications, event registrations, program intake, expense requests — the forms a nonprofit runs on usually end up scattered across a survey tool, a PDF someone emails around, and a spreadsheet nobody owns. Form Builder keeps them inside the intranet, and a submission can open a case in the right queue or post to the right Space on its own, with the notification going to the coordinator who handles it rather than to everyone.
Send donor updates and volunteer newsletters from the same place.
Newsletter Manager builds and sends email from inside Axero, drawing recipients from the groups and Spaces you already maintain — so a volunteer newsletter goes to current volunteers rather than to whoever was on last year's list. After a send you can see opens and clicks, which is the part a board report usually asks about.
Why mission-driven organizations choose Axero
“Axero provides a platform for our Non-Profit to stimulate conversations, cultivate our community, and engage our members.”
Janine J.
Executive Director, Electronic Music Alliance
“With Axero, we host the TEDx community from around the world under one social platform. Axero's customer service is the best. We always have someone to answer our questions.”
Sina S.
Technical Program Manager, TED
Why nonprofits choose Axero
Why top nonprofits, NGOs, and mission-driven organizations choose Axero
Connect and get informed
Provide an easy way for your workforce to get connected and informed. Streamline communications and simplify the process of daily knowledge sharing.
Access 24/7, anywhere
Eliminate barriers based on location or device. Provide your volunteers with instant access to knowledge they need from any mobile device anywhere.
Increase productivity
Encourage information sharing by removing silos. Speed up knowledge acquisition and remove frustrations and operational inefficiencies.
Search and find
Find the information you need when you need it easily via Axero's centralized knowledge base. Stop sifting through email threads.
Collaborate across programs and partners
Spin up Spaces to collaborate on a program, campaign, or grant. Invite donors, funders, program partners, and board members into the specific area they need.
Organize your info
Getting your best work done requires excellent organization. Organize info by projects, groups, or topics — and pull any relevant data instantly.
Tap into employee insight
Axero makes it easy for your teams to share their expertise within the context of any topic or project. Unlock that insight and make better decisions.
Build loyalty across the board
Engage volunteers, staff, donors, and board members so they become genuine ambassadors for your mission — not one-time supporters you have to re-earn each year.
Workspaces
One platform, the right access for staff, volunteers, board, and partners
A nonprofit isn't one uniform group of employees. Paid staff, volunteers, program and field teams, board members, committees, donors, and partner organizations each need different things — and different levels of access — from the same platform. That's what Workspaces handles.
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Public and private Spaces
Teams control what's visible to the whole organization versus restricted to specific members.
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Board and committee Spaces
Restricted membership for meeting materials, minutes, and governance documents, with permissions down to the individual file.
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Scoped volunteer access
Volunteers see only the Spaces relevant to them — onboarding, schedules, program information — without HR or finance content.
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A built-in extranet
Invite external board members, funders, and partner organizations into a specific Space without giving them broader platform access.
Customization
The same platform can look like a different site to each group
Staff, volunteers, and board members don't need the same homepage. With Page Builder personas, you build a separate homepage layout per role and target it to that group, so a volunteer signing in lands on onboarding steps, shift schedules, and program information, while staff land on internal comms, the document library, and day-to-day operations. Neither one is a stripped-down version of the other — they're different pages, each assembled from the widgets that group actually uses.
Branding goes deeper than a logo in the corner. Fonts, colors, headers, and navigation can follow your own brand guide, which matters when volunteers and board members are the people you most want to feel at home. The result reads as your organization's site rather than as software you licensed.
Works with the tools your team already pays for
Nonprofits rarely get to standardize on one vendor, so an intranet has to sit alongside what's already in place. Axero ships 39 native integrations, including Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Outlook calendars on the Microsoft side, and Google Workspace, Google Drive, and Google Calendar on the other. Teams, Slack, and Zoom cover day-to-day communication; Dropbox and Box cover files. Single sign-on runs through Active Directory, Azure AD, ADFS/SAML, Okta, OneLogin, and social logins, so volunteers and staff use credentials they already have.
Where a native connector doesn't exist, the REST APIs and webhooks cover it — useful for the donor database or grants system that no intranet ships an integration for.
Security & deployment
Security and compliance for donor and beneficiary data
Nonprofits hold sensitive information — donor records, beneficiary data, financials. Axero is built to protect it, whether we host you or you host yourself.
Security & compliance
Each customer gets an independent database (single-tenant architecture), with data encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (SSL/TLS 1.3) and daily backups. Axero is SOC 2 Type II compliant; our cloud hosting is SSAE 16 (SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II) and ISO 27001 compliant, with GDPR documentation available on request. Role- and Space-level permissions restrict donor and beneficiary information down to the individual document, and administrators can edit or delete profile data to satisfy a privacy request. SSO and multi-factor authentication are supported.
Cloud or self-hosted
On our managed cloud, your organization gets its own single-tenant installation and we handle hosting, updates, patching, and daily backups — which is why most nonprofits choose it, since there's rarely a spare IT person to hand server maintenance to. Self-hosting puts the same software on infrastructure you control, whether that's your own servers or a private cloud account, and makes sense when a grant condition, a data-residency rule, or an existing data-center investment requires it. It's the same platform in both models, so the decision doesn't limit what you can build, and moving between them later is a migration rather than a replacement.
Nonprofit intranet FAQs
Can we run this without a dedicated IT person?
Yes, and most of our nonprofit customers do. Pages are built and maintained with Axero's drag-and-drop Page Builder rather than code, so a communications or operations lead updates content directly without waiting on a developer.
Do you help with setup, rollout, and onboarding?
Yes. Launch Packages pair your team with ours for implementation strategy, a walkthrough of the platform, technical guidance, and the rollout itself — the stage that most often stalls when nobody owns it internally. From there your team keeps content current on its own.
How do nonprofits budget for an intranet?
Plans are quoted against your actual headcount and deployment model rather than a published per-user rate, which makes them easier to size for a nonprofit budget and to put in front of a board. If grant funding or a fiscal-year boundary shapes your timeline, raise it early — it usually affects packaging and phasing more than the number.
Is there a mobile app for staff and volunteers in the field?
Yes. Axero's native iOS and Android apps give staff, volunteers, and field teams access to schedules, documents, the directory, and announcements from their phones, with push notifications for anything time-sensitive. Anyone with an active license can download them free from the App Store or Google Play.
What if we need help?
Every Axero plan includes top-level support, free upgrades, and access to our customer community, and Service Level Agreements are available for organizations that need guaranteed response times. Support isn't a separate department here — every Axero employee is part of it.
