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3 Reasons Every Nonprofit Tech Project Should Begin with a Discovery

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A tech “discovery” is the initial, independent phase of a technology project where key analysis, design and planning are performed BEFORE a buy or build decision is made. Discoveries are essentially risk mitigation exercises, and they should be a separate contract from the build phase whenever possible. Why is that? It’s about people.

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To Build or Buy a Software Solution: Which is Right for You?

Association Analytics

Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind. The first phase of crafting comprehensive requirements can be very time intensive. As with any new product or system, you have the risk of adoption. Implementing a new software solution is a huge project.

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GUIDE: How To Adopt A Customer-Centric Approach In Your Pro Bono Technology Project

Global Giving

Pro bono service from the corporate sector can help enable nonprofits with technology, processes and people, giving them what they need to thrive. It expands on initial research, which introduced the Solution Development Framework, a phased-approach to discover, design, implement, and maintain sustainable solutions that meet nonprofit needs.

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Donation Processing Set-up: 4 Tips for New Nonprofits

Get Fully Funded

For newer nonprofits, making informed decisions about how to get set up with donation processing can be especially difficult, and for good reason. It’s a complicated process. That’s exactly why we’ve compiled a few essentials about the donation system implementation process: Invest in a secure online payment processor.

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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

.orgSource

As part of managing growth and scaling the business, Zappos adopted the Holacracy constitution. The adoption of Holacracy encouraged autonomy and distributed authority, key pillars today. We had a roadmap for how to advance the organization and prepare for the next phase of growth.”. You have ownership of your decisions.

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Digital transformation for nonprofits

fusionSpan

The implication is that those at the forefront of digital transformation have compounding advantages – the more digital transformation they have already undertaken, the quicker they can continue to evolve and adopt new technologies, such as AI , as they arrive. Can you streamline the process to make it easier to join?

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Getting the board on board with nonprofit technology changes

EveryAction

They can help drive a culture of adoption , which allows leadership to focus on change management activities to ensure you succeed with significant tech shifts. Focus on limiting tool fatigue Explain how the new tech can help reduce manual, untracked or unlogged staff processes.