The clearer path to institutional growth.
Redpath helps higher education and mission-driven institutions connect the people, data, workflows, and relationships that drive growth — then builds the Salesforce foundation to make it work in real life.
In the room
A team built for the work mission-driven institutions actually do.
Years building Salesforce for mission-driven teams
Organizations served across higher ed, nonprofit, public sector
Projects delivered — Advisory, Implementation, Managed
Trusted by organizations that need more than a generic Salesforce partner.
Salesforce work is the easy part. Knowing what your institution actually needs is the rest of it.
We Care Deeply
We hold the work to the standard you would, and we measure success by what changes for your team — not just what ships. When it gets hard, we lean in.
We Know Higher Ed
We have done this inside advancement shops and complex institutions, so you won’t spend meetings explaining how higher ed works. We plan around the approvals and politics you live with.
We Make It Easy
We carry the heavy lifting so your team can keep doing their jobs. We say what we’ll do, then do exactly that — no jargon, no surprises, no scramble at go-live.
Growth gets harder when every team is working from a different map.
Institutions are managing more relationships, more revenue streams, more expectations, and more systems than ever. Corporate partners. Students. Alumni. Donors. Employers. Researchers. Agencies. Constituents.
The problem is not ambition — it's visibility, coordination, and trust in the systems meant to support the work.
The Current State
Your technology is outpacing your people.
Institutions buy the platforms, integrate the data, and stand up the dashboards — then watch much of the value slip away. The reason is rarely the platform. It's the gap between what the system can do and what the organization is ready to sustain. Redpath closes that gap — paced, deliberate, every quarter.
Maturity Over Time — Technology vs. Organizational
THE BRIDGE
How we’ll help you close the gap.
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AUDIT
See where you really are.
An honest read of both curves — technical and organizational — not where the slide says you are.
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PACE
Build tech to match adoption.
Sequence the platform work to match what your institution can actually absorb. No big-bang rollouts that stall.
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TRAIN & ALIGN
Bring people with the system.
Train staff. Align processes. Stand up governance that enables rather than slows. Without this, the platform never lands.
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PROGRESS
Move both curves up — together.
Consistent, data-driven progress. Quarter by quarter. Stage by stage. Until the lag is behind you.
Built for the work universities actually do.
Higher Education is where we've gone the deepest. Five interlocking surfaces — each with its own buyer, its own data model, its own definition of done. We don't translate. We already speak it.
From the research office to the advancement office, from the continuing ed program to the corporate engagement team — one Salesforce partner who's already done this at scale.
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Corporate Engagement
Sponsored research, recruiting partnerships, philanthropy programs.
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Research & Tech Transfer
Grant administration, IP commercialization, industry-sponsored work.
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Advancement & Fundraising
Raiser's Edge → Salesforce migrations. Donor experience that earns the next gift.
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Continuing & Executive Ed
Adult-learner journeys. From enrollment through alumni.
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Career Services
Employer engagement, outcomes tracking, lifelong career partnerships.
The right help at the right stage of your Salesforce journey.
FOR DECISIONS THAT MATTER
Advisory.
Roadmaps, architecture, governance, operating models, stakeholder alignment, and Salesforce strategy. The work that makes everything else land.
Explore Advisory →FOR BUILDS THAT LAST
Implementation.
Builds, rebuilds, integrations, data models, workflows, dashboards, automations, and cloud configuration. Built to be sustained, not just shipped.
Explore Implementation →FOR DATA YOU CAN TRUST
Migrations.
Data cleanup, mapping, validation, and cutover, including Raiser's Edge to Salesforce, so nothing critical is lost in the move.
Explore Migrations →FOR PLATFORMS THAT GROW
Managed Services.
Optimization, admin support, enhancements, adoption, reporting, releases, and long-term platform stewardship. Your platform's second wind.
Explore Managed Services →Not sure where you fit? Talk it through with someone who has done this before.
Talk to a Redpath ArchitectSee all servicesHow Co-Delivery actually works.
Most partners hand you a platform. We stay in the room. Co-Delivery is what we call it when the line between Redpath and your team stops being visible. We embed, we coach, we hand back a Salesforce instance your in-house team actually owns.
Embedded, not parachuted in. Working inside your team's cadence.
Coaching as we go. Your admin learns the why, not just the how.
Handed back, not handed off. No quiet dependency.
“We dig in. We do what we say. That's the engagement style higher-ed leaders ask us back for.”
James Smale
Co-Founder & Owner, Redpath Consulting Group
FEATURED ENGAGEMENTCredit: Courtesy of Georgia Southern UniversityGeorgia Southern unifies corporate and industry engagement on Salesforce.
A Salesforce-powered platform gives the Office of Business Engagement one centralized, scalable way to manage partnerships across research, innovation, philanthropy, and workforce initiatives.
“This platform strengthens how we manage and grow relationships with our corporate and industry partners.”
NACRO · SALT LAKE CITY, 2026
NACRO 2026 Annual Conference: building sustainable corporate engagement.
Redpath joins higher-ed corporate relations leaders in Salt Lake City to co-lead a leadership panel on sustainable corporate engagement, plus a booth to try our corporate engagement diagnostic tool.
See the event →HIGHER ED · CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT
Corporate engagement on Salesforce: the end-to-end blueprint for universities.
How universities move beyond siloed research partnerships to a 360-degree, platform-driven approach to corporate engagement.
Read the blueprint →NONPROFIT · FUNDRAISING
A children's hospital foundation moves from Raiser's Edge to native Salesforce.
After a multi-year migration, the foundation retired custom workarounds and embraced native Salesforce and NPSP, improving efficiency, data integrity, and capacity to support pediatric care.
Read the case study →Build Salesforce around the work your institution actually needs to grow.
Whether you're improving recruitment, strengthening student success, modernizing advancement, or closing the gap between technical capability and organizational readiness — Redpath can help you move forward with clarity.