Small Team Advantage As a small political org with 2-10 employees, Merriman River Assoc can benefit from lightweight, high-impact IT solutions and managed services that scale with growth, reducing upfront costs while ensuring security and reliability.

Security and Compliance Current tech stack includes Cloudflare Bot Management and reCAPTCHA; there is room to broaden security with MFA and Azure AD-based single sign-on, regular security assessments, phishing simulations, and data protection aligned with donor or supporter data handling.

Digital Presence With Open Graph, RSS, and a GoDaddy-hosted site, there are opportunities to improve site performance, accessibility, SEO, and content distribution to expand reach and fundraising potential.

Productivity Optimization Leverage Microsoft 365 for collaboration and governance: implement MFA, SharePoint intranet, data loss prevention, centralized user provisioning, and backup to reduce risk and improve efficiency for a lean team.

Affordable Growth Given a revenue range of up to one million, pursue cost-conscious, scalable offerings such as monthly managed services, security and compliance bundles, and lightweight donor or advocacy CRM integrations to support growth without heavy upfront costs.