Case Study: Kids in a New Groove achieves streamlined reporting and scalable growth with AccuFund

AccuFund Hits All the High Notes for Music-Focused Nonprofit

Kids in a New Groove is an Austin-based nonprofit that provides free weekly private music lessons to youth in foster care across Austin, DFW and Houston; the program has doubled in the last year to over 70 students and has served about 300 youth since 2009. As their Salesforce implementation grew through custom objects and ad-hoc changes, relationships between records became blurred, navigation was cumbersome, and key reports (demographics, graduates, instruments, county breakdowns) required manual calculation—hindering data entry, staff adoption, grant work, and plans for expansion.

AccuFund performed a system audit and needs analysis, then reorganized the database, consolidated fields, restructured student and lesson tracking, implemented workflow automation for rewards, migrated data, and trained staff—completing the work in three months. The result is streamlined navigation, one-click reporting for grants and donor outreach, automated award tasks logged to student records, improved donor tracking, and better data-driven planning to support future growth statewide and beyond.

Kids in a New Groove

Laura Wood

Program Coordinator