A secure foundation
Run your business securelySmall and medium business
AI-ready productivity & security for every employeeEnterprise and nonprofit
For Microsoft sellers and partner teams
Microsoft FY27 conversations we deliver.
Centered Networks has been in business since 2004, serving nonprofits and mission-driven organizations the entire time, and holds five Microsoft Solutions Partner designations.
This page maps each Microsoft conversation we deliver to the offer that carries it, so you know when to bring us into an account.
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Where we are strongest
Three conversations we lead with.
Most of the nonprofits we serve fall in Microsoft’s small and medium business conversations. Larger nonprofits, foundations, and rural hospitals follow Microsoft’s enterprise and nonprofit conversations. We deliver in both sets, and these three are where we bring the most depth.
Copilot in the flow of work
Power your business with secure AI integrated into your flow of workSmall and medium business
AI in the flow of human ambitionEnterprise and nonprofit
A trusted platform for AI
Establish a trusted & secure platform for AIEnterprise and nonprofit
Conversation map
Every conversation we deliver, and the offer behind it.
Each row names Microsoft’s conversation, its solution area, the Centered Networks offers that carry it, and the customer moment when we are the right call.
Each color is one conversation family: a small and medium business conversation and its enterprise counterpart share a color, and every offer page carries the same tag.
Microsoft’s small and medium business conversations
Where most of the nonprofits and community organizations we serve sit.
| Conversation | Solution area | Centered Networks offers | When to bring us in |
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| Run your business securely Secure foundation | Security | The customer pays for Business Premium but most of its protections are still switched off. | |
| Power your business with secure AI integrated into your flow of work Copilot in the flow of work | AI Business Solutions | Staff already use Microsoft Copilot Chat or consumer AI, and leadership wants Microsoft Copilot (formerly Microsoft 365 Copilot) to show measurable value. | |
| Create a competitive edge with AI Build and innovate | Cloud & AI Platforms | One repeatable workflow, such as intake, research, or reporting, is eating staff time and could run as a governed agent. | |
| Modernize your data to drive results and leverage AI Unified data estate | Cloud & AI Platforms | Reports take days to assemble, or the data behind them sits in aging databases that Copilot and Power BI cannot use. | |
| Scale business processes with agent-powered finance Agentify processes | AI Business Solutions | Finance runs on spreadsheets or an aging accounting system, and approvals still move by email. |
Microsoft’s enterprise and nonprofit conversations
Where larger nonprofits, foundations, and rural hospitals sit.
| Conversation | Solution area | Centered Networks offers | When to bring us in |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI-ready productivity & security for every employee Secure foundation | AI Business Solutions, Security | Copilot is on the table, and permissions, sensitivity labels, and security monitoring are not ready for it. | |
| AI in the flow of human ambition Copilot in the flow of work | AI Business Solutions | The board wants an AI plan, and staff need Copilot inside the work they already do. | |
| Establish a trusted & secure platform for AI Trusted platform for AI | Security | Agents are reaching production and nobody owns their identities, access, cost, or lifecycle. | |
| Agentify your business processes Agentify processes | AI Business Solutions | Manual intake, approvals, or handoffs slow service delivery, and the fix belongs in Copilot Studio, Power Platform, or Dynamics 365. | |
| Amplify your intelligence Amplify intelligence | Cloud & AI Platforms | Leaders want answers grounded in their own supporter and program data, and need a plan before they buy. | |
| Build a unified, governed data & AI estate Unified data estate | Cloud & AI Platforms | Impact reporting is stitched together from spreadsheets, and funders want numbers the organization can stand behind. | |
| Modernize with confidence Modernize on Azure | Cloud & AI Platforms | Servers or applications are reaching end of support, or an Azure workload needs an independent review before it carries more of the mission. | |
| Ubiquitous innovation Build and innovate | Cloud & AI Platforms | A team needs a custom agent or a public-facing application built and governed on Azure. |
Not sure which conversation fits the account yet? Send the customer to the three-minute Opportunity Finder. When they want a written plan, the 90-Day AI Roadmap is a paid engagement that works across every conversation above.
Proof you can share: Centered Networks led the Azure architecture for the Trust for the National Mall’s National Mall Gateway (Microsoft customer story); application development was delivered with project partners.
Nonprofit bridge
From the nonprofit’s pressure to Microsoft’s conversation.
Microsoft’s nonprofit guidance starts with the challenge and the use case, then moves to the conversation. Our Opportunity Finder works the same way: the customer picks one of five pressures, and the result names the outcome, the questions to validate, and where to start. Each pressure below opens the Finder on that pressure.
The five use cases, conversations, and where we start
| Microsoft nonprofit use case | Microsoft conversation | Opportunity Finder pressure | Where we start |
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| Automate manual and mission-critical operations | Agentify your business processes | Staff capacity and manual work | |
| Strengthen revenue sustainability and supporter relationships | Amplify your intelligence | Revenue and supporter relationships | |
| Accelerate impact measurement and reporting with unified data | Build a unified, governed data & AI estate | Impact and reporting | |
| Make information accessible and actionable for every community served | AI in the flow of human ambition | Access and organizational knowledge | |
| Build resilient nonprofit operations | AI-ready productivity & security for every employee | Security, responsible AI, and resilience |
Microsoft Elevate
Microsoft Elevate’s nonprofit campaigns, and what we bring to each.
Microsoft Elevate is the Microsoft team we work with most for nonprofits. Its nonprofit partner hub groups campaigns by solution area. Each campaign below maps to the Centered Networks offers that carry it, so a nonprofit seller can bring us in on the campaign already in motion.
The 14 campaigns and our offers
| Microsoft Elevate campaign | Solution area | Centered Networks offers |
|---|---|---|
| Copilot & Agents at Work | AI Business Solutions | |
| Innovate with Low code AI & Agents | AI Business Solutions | |
| Sales Transformation with AI | AI Business Solutions | |
| Service Transformation with AI | AI Business Solutions | |
| Scale Business Operations | AI Business Solutions | |
| Scale with Cloud & AI Endpoints | AI Business Solutions | |
| Securely Migrate & Modernize to be AI-Ready | Cloud & AI Platforms | |
| Unify your data platform | Cloud & AI Platforms | |
| Innovate with Azure AI Apps & Agents | Cloud & AI Platforms | |
| Data Security | Security | |
| Modern SecOps with Unified Platform | Security | |
| Protect Cloud, AI Platforms, & Apps | Security | |
| Nonprofit Frontier Transformation Conversation | Executive conversation | |
| Microsoft Elevate for Changemakers | Skilling |
How to co-sell with us
Bring us in early. We will keep you informed.
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Tell us the account and the conversation
Share the customer, the conversation you are running, and what the customer said in their own words.
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We validate fit with the customer
We start with the pressure and the use case, using the Opportunity Finder or a short call, before anyone proposes a product.
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You stay in the loop
We keep the account team informed from scoping through delivery, and run the work as a managed service when the customer wants that.
Have an account in mind?
Tell us the customer and the conversation. We reply within one business day with whether we are the right fit and how we would start.
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