Case Study: charity: water accelerates fundraising and field service innovation with Salesforce for Nonprofits and Heroku

Clean Water Nonprofit Runs Fundraising and Field Service Apps on Heroku

charity: water aimed to solve the global water crisis but faced outdated PHP and Java back-end systems that hindered their product evolution. They partnered with Salesforce for Nonprofits, selecting the Heroku platform, to build a more agile and cost-effective fundraising and field service infrastructure.

The solution implemented by Salesforce for Nonprofits involved migrating their systems to Heroku, utilizing a wide range of Heroku Add-ons. This allowed the engineering team to avoid hiring a DevOps role, redirecting that operational budget directly to fundraising activities. The result was a seamless development experience, a faster pace of innovation, and the successful deployment of critical apps like their fundraising platform and a dispatch monitor that tracks water flow data from wells in the field.

Charity: Water

Matthew Eckstein

CTO