The Nonprofit's Reality
You're Warned Not To Pay Too Much for Administrative Services
You're Structured To Pay Too Much for Administrative Services
Funders and Watchdog Groups Expect You to Minimize Overhead
But
Nonprofits Don't Have the Time or Staff to Negotiate Best Vendor Pricing
Pay Less With ACRE's On-Demand Procurement
Services Exclusively for Nonprofits
Procured Savings
Nonprofit sector sourcing and negotiation expertise applied to your specific purchases. The same advantage and leverage large organizations pay big salaries for.
Exclusive Savings
ACRE works with providers to promote time-limited and promotional offers, group deals for multiple nonprofits, and other innovative sales and savings opportunities.
Instant Savings
More than 200 nonprofit discount offers, ACRE-negotiated deals, and exclusive ACRE rebates are available in the Discount Clearinghouse.
Labor Savings
Nonprofits in need of low-cost administrative and project management support can save with several outsourced services managed by ACRE.
Cost-Saving Procurement
Done-For-You!
1. Submit a Request
Tell us what you’re looking to buy or, if it’s a service, tell us what you currently pay for it.
2. We Go to Work
We source as many options as possible, compare quotes to recent sales price information, and negotiate to get you the best deal.
3. You Choose
Review the options, and decide what works for you. No obligation to buy.
Or Find An Instant Deal
The Do-It-Yourself Way
ACRE's Discount Clearinghouse
- The Largest Online Repository of Nonprofit Discounts, Deals, and Low-Cost Services
- Nonprofit Offers from More Than 200 Companies in Dozens of Categories
- Exclusive Special Offers from Service Providers and Rebates Directly from ACRE
What Nonprofits Get & Don't Get
With ACRE's On-Demand Procurement Service
- Get Lots Of This
- Rapid Quotes
- Negotiated Savings
- Exclusive Provider Offers
- With None Off This
- No Upfront Costs
- No Obligation to Buy
- No Demands on Your Time
- Get a Deal You Like or You Pay Nothing!
We're Talking Serious Impact Potential
Understandably, most nonprofits focus exclusively on raising more revenue when money is tight.
But professional procurement services, the kind Fortune 500 companies invest in heavily, can have oversized bottom line impacts, routinely reducing vendor costs by 15–30%.
Let’s say your nonprofit reports expenses of $500,000, with 35% of that spent on non-program related expenses.
That’s $175,00 in overhead. Reduce that by just 15% and you’ve saved $26,250. You’ve just reduced total expenses by more than 5% and increased money you have available for programs by more than 8%, with very little effort.
Large organizations have the full-time procurement staff to reap those savings. You don’t. That’s where ACRE comes in.
Made for Nonprofits That Don't Have Time
For All This!
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 built for you!