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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?

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The Phases of Service Design

Forum One

There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype. Phase 1: Align You’ve decided to embark on a service design project! It’s crucial to understand why you’re embarking on this project and to ensure other stakeholders understand it as well. Phase 2: Research The next phase is research.

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7 tips for preparing your nonprofit for a move to new software

EveryAction

Be sure this person is allowed enough time to manage the software implementation project and regular work tasks, which might require pausing some of the person’s tasks or temporarily shifting tasks to other staff members in the organization until the software implementation project is completed. Locate your data. Do a data clean-up.

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The Phases of Service Design

Forum One

There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype. Phase 1: Align. You’ve decided to embark on a service design project! It’s crucial to understand why you’re embarking on this project and to ensure other stakeholders understand it as well. Phase 2: Research. Phase 3: Ideation.

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

Association Analytics

Implementing a new software solution is a huge project. Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind. This may include new staff or reassigned staff from other important projects. Costs are clearly spelled out at the onset of the project.

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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

sgEngage

The goal was to become better grantmakers by completing a review of our practices, processes and forms. This was a year-long project that required CDP to closely examine our processes and have bold conversations about how we wanted our grantmaking to look. We incorporated learnings and feedback from grantee partners.

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Getting the board on board with nonprofit technology changes

EveryAction

As you use these questions to engage in dialogue with your board, it helps to remember that board members may have opinions and learned experience about what tools and systems are best. They may even have used similar systems in past roles or managed a large tech implementation at some point in their career. Try one (or both!)