Non-profit & Social Impact.
Prove the impact, not just the spend.
Drema builds software for non-profits and social impact organisations: donor and grant management, beneficiary tracking, offline field data collection and the impact reporting that funders require. The constraint here is real budget limits, so we design for what a small team can operate without a technology department.
What this sector
actually deals with.
Beneficiary records live in field notebooks and are typed up weeks later. Donor relationships sit in one person's inbox. Impact reporting is reconstructed from memory at grant deadlines, which weakens exactly the evidence that secures the next round of funding.
Systems this sector
keeps needing.
The parts of a non-profit & social impact platform that carry the weight. Not everything at once — we build the one that unblocks you first.
Beneficiary management
Records, services delivered and outcomes tracked over time, not per project.
Field data collection
Offline-first mobile capture that syncs when a signal returns.
Donor and grant management
Contributions, restrictions, reporting deadlines and acknowledgements.
Impact dashboards
Outcome metrics assembled continuously for funders and boards.
Volunteer coordination
Scheduling, onboarding and hours tracking.
Where the work
pays for itself.
The problems non-profit & social impact teams bring us most often. If one of these is costing you money today, it is worth a conversation.
Programme delivery tracking
Knowing who was reached, with what, and to what effect.
Grant compliance
Reporting produced from operational data rather than assembled at deadline.
Donor retention
Timely, specific acknowledgement of where a contribution went.
Multi-site coordination
Consistent records across field offices with poor connectivity.
Not on this list? Sector problems rarely fit a template — tell us yours.
What shapes a build
in this sector.
These are the things a generalist team discovers late and prices badly. We design around them from the first week.
- FCRA reporting where foreign contributions are received
- Beneficiary privacy, often involving vulnerable people
- Genuinely offline field environments
- Small budgets and no in-house technical staff
How we usually
engage here.
The services non-profit & social impact clients most often start with.
Non-profit & Social Impact
questions.
Straight answers, including where we are not the right team.
We have a small budget. Is custom software realistic?
Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Where an existing tool covers the need we will tell you to use it. Custom is worth it when your programme model does not fit any product and the manual workaround is consuming staff time you cannot spare.
Does field collection work without internet?
Yes. Offline-first is a requirement rather than a feature in this sector — data is captured locally and synced when connectivity returns, with conflict handling for records edited in two places.
How do you protect vulnerable beneficiaries' data?
Minimum necessary collection, role-scoped access, and careful thought about what genuinely needs storing. The safest data is the data you chose not to collect, and we push that conversation early.
Can you help with funder reporting formats?
Yes. We model the outcome metrics your funders require so reports are generated from live operational data rather than reconstructed by hand each cycle.
Building for non-profit & social impact?
Bring the problem as it actually is, constraints included.
You will get a straight answer on whether we are the right team.