Non-profits often have a combination of full-time staff, part-time employees, seasonal workers, and volunteers — all needing different levels of access to different information. Standard enterprise platforms are either too complex and expensive, or too basic to bring a dispersed community together. The YMCA needed something that could serve everyone without requiring technical expertise to maintain.

Sierra ran a thorough evaluation and kept returning to the same requirements — simplicity, seamless Google Workspace login, intuitive editing, genuine customisation, and a price that made sense for a non-profit. Most platforms failed on at least one of those. Steegle.One was the only solution that consistently delivered across all of them.

Yes. Steegle believes in supporting organisations that do good in their communities, and that's reflected in how they price for non-profits. The YMCA's mission around youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility is exactly the kind of work Steegle wants to enable. Non-profits shouldn't have to choose between a quality intranet and their programme budget.

It builds directly on Google Workspace that the organisation is likely already paying for — no separate infrastructure, no additional platform licence, no data migration to a third-party system. The YMCA got news feeds, community groups, recognition, org charts, and a file library, all inside their existing Google environment.

Everything stays inside the organisation's own Google Workspace. There's no external platform holding employee records or sensitive operational data. Google's native permissions control who sees what. For an organisation built on community trust, that level of privacy is non-negotiable.

Sierra described it as transformative. Employees discovered hidden talents and strengths in each other that had been invisible across a spread-out team. The platform brought people together in a way that email and Drive folders never could — and that sense of connection directly supports the YMCA's mission.

With staff across multiple locations and programmes, people need to find the right information quickly. AI tools like Gemini can help surface policies, resources, and contacts almost instantly, but only when the content is well-organised. Steegle.One creates that clean, curated foundation, so AI search works from a trusted source.