Case study

Social & education nonprofit CRM 360 for the service year

One CRM 360 — a whole service year, running in a click

A large education org ran its service year on spreadsheets, scattered forms and manual handoffs between teams. We built one operating ecosystem on monday.com: candidate intake, placement, mentorship tracking and reporting — with process design before build and communication channels wired to the board.

At a glance

Core board workflows
25–35

Full candidate journey

Connected Meta campaigns
Up to 3

Leads → board

Central comms channels
WhatsApp + Meta

CRM Connections

Project milestones
5

Map → handoff

The project did not start on a board — it started in FlowGram and Miro, and closed on CRM 360 on monday.com with Clicks CRM Connections and operational care.

Recruitment and sorting for the service year were split across campaigns, events, questionnaires and spreadsheets. Each team held a different status picture, and Meta leads did not land consistently on one board. Leadership lacked a single view of conversion, placement and data quality.

We followed Discover → Architect → Build → Operate: mapped the candidate journey and shared flow blueprints, implemented core CRM to best practice, added dashboards and ETL, then wired multi-channel comms — before QA, training and a controlled go-live.

What we built

  • Detailed mapping: lead sources, statuses, board structures, candidate/alumni cards and sensitive fields.

  • Core CRM: registration forms, intake, preference questionnaires, checklists and team views.

  • Links between leads, candidates, communities, tracks and authorities.

  • Clicks CRM Connections: WhatsApp Business, Messenger, inquiry bot, sync to fields and statuses.

  • Dashboards: progress metrics, lead sources, basic ROI and placement simulations.

Deliverables and the products behind them

How it works in practice

A candidate entering from a landing page or Meta campaign becomes a lead, goes through structured intake and receives follow-up tasks by status. WhatsApp conversations stay on the same record — without switching systems. Program leads see on the dashboard where the process stalls and intake load before the next recruitment cycle.

Outcomes

One source of truth for service-year data, less manual chasing across sheets, and teams spending more time with participants — not on copy-paste coordination. The system is ready for future extensions (telephony, AI screening) from the same specification.

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