Your Nonprofit Leaves
No Stone Unturned
In The Search
For More Revenue
But There’s Good Money
Just Waiting To Be Found
On The Other
Side Of The Ledger
You Can Be Paying Less
ACRE's Free On-Demand Procurement Services Exclusively for Nonprofits
Procured Savings
Nonprofit sector-wide sourcing and negotiation expertise applied to your specific purchases. The same advantage and leverage large organizations enjoy.
Exclusive Savings
Special time-limited and promotional offers from providers, rebate offers you can only get from ACRE, and other unique sales and savings opportunities.
Instant Savings
More than 200 nonprofit discount offers, ACRE-negotiated deals, and exclusive ACRE rebates are available inow n the Discount Clearinghouse.
Labor Cost Savings
Nonprofits in need of low-cost administrative and project management support can save with several outsourced services managed by ACRE.
Free And Easy Access To Cost-Saving
Procurement Services
1. Submit a Request
Tell us what you’re looking to buy or, if it’s a service renewal, tell us what you currently pay for it.
2. We Go to Work
We identify qualified providers; research information on pricing and terms from suppliers, GPOs, and retailers; and gather the best offers for you.
3. You Choose
Review the options, and decide what works for you. No obligation to buy.
Tailor-Made for Under-Resourced Nonprofits
Large organizations have the full-time procurement staff
And volume buying power to reap big savings.
You don’t.
And you don’t have time to do all this!
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If Your Nonprofit Has Ever:
- renewed a contract without shopping alternatives because no one had time
- accepted a vendor’s first price because negotiating felt too time-consuming
- wondered whether you’re overpaying but couldn’t justify the hours to find out
ACRE Was Made For You!
ACRE's Discount Clearinghouse
More Than Just A List Of Discounts;
A List Of Great Cost-Saving Offers!
- Pay Less Anytime! Browse the Largest Online Repository of Nonprofit Discounts, Exclusive Deals, and Low-Cost Services
- Exclusive Special Offers from Providers Looking to Grow Their Business Within the Nonprofit Sector
- Exclusive Rebates and Heavily Discounted Outsourced Services You Can Only Get from ACRE!
- Nonprofit Discount Offers from more Than 200 Companies in Dozens of Categories
How ACRE Does It For Free
ACRE is funded by participating vendors through referral fees and negotiated agreements, not by the nonprofits we serve.
But that doesn’t mean you only get offers from ACRE affiliate partners. ACRE’s procurement platform doesn’t even factor in whether a vendor pays referral fees when it searches for the best offers for exactly what you want.
If one of the best offers happens to come from an affiliate partner, ACRE uses multiple layers of transparency to ensure the nonprofit knows that fact before a purchase decision is made.
So ACRE doesn’t always get paid when a deal gets made. And that’s ok. If we’re saving a nonprofit money on one purchase, it might come back to us again for the next one.
Helping Nonprofits Reduce Costs In Multiple Ways
ACRE was founded in 2022 by Craig Price, who spent two decades in association management and operations consulting for nonprofits.
The founding principle was the belief that the largely non-competitive nature of the nonprofit sector leant itself to unique and untapped opportunities for collaboration in purchasing, shared services, and other jointly beneficial cost remediation ventures.
ACRE was created to facilitate small and mid-size nonprofit awareness of, participation in, and benefit from these new opportunities to reduce operating costs so more of their money could be spent on their mission.
Craig Price
ACRE Founder
ACRE also develops other resources to specifically help nonprofits manage, control, and reduce costs. Some of the free tools from ACRE include:
- The Nonprofit Financial Stewardship Self-Assessment to help nonprofits identify, quantify, expand, and promote the controls and limits they put in place that demonstrate their commitment to being outstanding stewards of the resources entrusted to them.
- Cost-Saving Resources and Reports that explore more unconventional ways to reduce costs in specific categories and to instill a cost-conscious mindset into their operations.
- The Nonprofit Savings Brief is ACRE’s monthly LinkedIn newsletter that covers nonprofit cost issues and trends, cost data research, current savings opportunities, cost-cutting success stories, and more.