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How A CRM Immediately Impacts Your Staff, And What To Expect During Implemantation

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Make sure your IT staff is prepped and available for quickly problem solving. Spend a lot of time on the floor during the first few days, ensure you’ve implemented appropriate training. No matter how much you have prepped, tested, an re-tested, problems do arise. Don’t panic!

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3 Steps To Conduct Your Nonprofit’s Tech Assessment

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Sometimes, finding a solution to a problem is as easy as slowing down, taking a step back, and approaching a problem from a new perspective. Other times, you need to get into the nitty gritty and conduct a full audit. It requires dedication, attention to detail, and often times cooperation from the entire organization.

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3 Reasons Tech Implementations Fail And How To Avoid It

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Investments, changes in work flow, and a host of potential problems when implementing the tech are all daunting challenges to face. Before executing a tech switch ask yourself whether your new tech will greatly reduce time spent on a process, or where it will save money. Image courtesy of Column 5. Poor support.

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How Nonprofit Use Tech To Increase Transparency

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The next time your nonprofit is having a difficult time deciding on a solution to a problem, check your CRM, and bring together a focus group of dedicated volunteers, event attendees, or social engagers to discuss the problem. Idea testing.

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Advice That Could Lead To A Better Nonprofit

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Additionally, we’re often apt to solve the easy problems. Ultimately, if we want to substantially grow and strengthen our nonprofits, and solve problems on a state wide, national, or even global scale, it is imperative that these questions be answered. Choose one big problem.

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4 Strategies To Help Assess Your Nonprofit’s Technology

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Often times members of the same organization working in very different parts of the organization may be experiencing similar problems with their processes but for different reasons. If your staff is speaking negatively about a specific task or job, think about solutions to those problems without affecting other processes.

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10 Tips for Managing Volunteers on a Low Budget

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No problem, ask volunteers to bring a plain shirt and have them make their own! Don’t have time for crafts? By knowing what to expect ahead of time, your volunteers will come prepared and execute their tasks with less difficulty than if they received instructions the day of. Not a problem. Can’t afford shirts?

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