History

Cedarstone Partners, Inc. was founded in 1993. In the decade of the 1990's we provided business services to a private foundation as well as several public charities and small businesses.

The founders of Cedarstone Partners have all had extensive experience working with small businesses, private foundations, and public charities. The decision to expand the activities of Cedarstone Partners grew out of our observation of a trend in smaller nonprofit organizations.

Small nonprofits generally have three options to handle their back office services. Some organizations have volunteers who take care of functions such as receipting donations, accounting, and bill payment. These volunteers are well-intended, but are sometimes unqualified or unreliable. Others hire in-house staff to fill these roles, but salaries, office space, and adequate technology and support are expensive. Finally, nonprofits can associate with larger organizations to handle their back office needs, but it is common for these organizations to assess 15-20% of all donations to cover administrative costs.

Cedarstone Partners recognizes that small nonprofits need high quality, lower cost options to provide essential back office functions. Our objective is to free the leadership of nonprofits from worry over the necessary administrative and operational functions of their organization. We desire to empower people to do what they do best. The majority of our clients have come to us via word of mouth referrals from our existing clients. Our goal is that each of our clients - individuals, foundations, and nonprofit organizations - feel that Cedarstone Partners functions as its own "virtual back office", totally responsive to the needs of the organization.