NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Director of Programmes. The role of IT has historically been, “Here is your computer, and your database, and your file system, and this is how you enter information and save files.” Change Management Cloud Infrastructure Leadership Michael Enos nptech nten Richard Cooper IT Staff' Richard Cooper.

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

What does this mean for nonprofit advocacy, communications, engagement, donations, program delivery, site design and system infrastructure? NTEN''s publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The increased need brought high levels of urgency, so it was essential to get funds in the system and back out through grants quickly but thoughtfully. Integrated systems also help organizations decrease the time between when a donation is made and when it’s distributed as a grant.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A long time Salesforce customer, they made the switch from a legacy system and used Salesforce to build the Justice Data Solution. The new system allows them to visualize their logic model in action across programs in 24 offices in 14 countries. Technology is the accelerator that allows IJM to do that at scale.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The increased need brought high levels of urgency, so it was essential to get funds in the system and back out through grants quickly but thoughtfully. Integrated systems also help organizations decrease the time between when a donation is made and when it’s distributed as a grant.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Participatory approaches to M&E invite us to think about which belief systems are privileged in our work, whose knowledge and priorities matter most, and why we do the work we do in the first place. As grantmakers, we can reconsider traditional monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches from start to finish.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

This mode starts by preparing your organization to withstand system shocks by employing “steady state” Survive, which are proactive steps taken even when markets are frothy. When a shock (either internal or external) hits, your organization moves into “triggered Survive.”

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. No amount of information matters for equitable change if it is disconnected from relationships and social interaction.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Too often, amateur accidental techies -- nonprofit staffers who have taught themselves technology skills -- find themselves in over their heads trying to develop databases, but forgetting to do business process modeling or change management.

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NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2010

In other words, those field staff who were always breaking the rules and systems he put in place were doing so not because they were punks, but because they genuinely needed to find new ways to get their job done. I've met a lot of nonprofit IT directors during the nearly 8(!) To me, that makes Ed a hero. . years I've been at NTEN.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Established in 2008 as a collaborative response to the growing number of complex elder abuse cases in NYC, the NYC Elder Abuse Center helps professionals, organizations, and systems prevent elder abuse and improve their response to it. In order to accomplish the goals of social media strategy, Deputy Director Risa Breckman knew that 1.)

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

You will never be able to move the needle systemically and make the changes you want to see in your community if you are not talking to the experts doing the work,” Marsha said.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2020

It didn’t take long, after that, to realize that rather than through social work, I could make the biggest difference through my organizational development and change management skills along with fundraising. From that point on, I decided to commit my life to helping others to the best of my ability. A: This makes me laugh.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

As long as spare parts are in stock and locals know how to maintain and repair the systems, we can keep safe water flowing for a very long time.) And when we fail, the donor would be notified at the same time as the executive director. Anybody could observe our progress, at any time. Anybody could observe our progress, at any time.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills. Considering today’s innovations, an advancement system is–or should be–much more than a repository of data.

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Neon CRM

JULY 12, 2023

How can you even tell if a new system is going to be right for your organization? Here’s a great example from a client that I spoke to just the other week: This organization chose to go with Neon CRM and Neon Websites because their old system had basically no integration between the donation page on their website, their CRM, and QuickBooks.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

Functioning - we keep the lights on; we have basic systems in place to meet immediate needs. In this article, we're taking a closer look at what we mean by "Tech Adoption". What is Tech Adoption? "We We think of ourselves as cutting edge, using QR codes for both exhibits and fundraising, for example.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Or if the communications director is busy creating content with little thought to annual campaign? Many nonprofits are trying to raise funds through Facebook pages and other social media sites, but how many nonprofits have their standard social media lists automatically linked or integrated with their donor management systems or databases?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Too many systems have been delivered over the years, to the underwhelming response, "Well, it's good, but that's not what I had in mind." Being a good engineer Engineers should focus on creating flexible, expandable systems that use open standards and file formats. We also advocate strongly for agile development practices.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

I’m often asked to help nonprofits define a technology roadmap – that is, figuring out how to migrate their business from a legacy system(s) to a new solution(s) and beyond. End-users ask, “can we make changes to the ‘out of the box’ software to meet specific needs? Development approach.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal. Keeping overhead low today requires optimized electronic workflows, and PaperSave’s unique document management system and support can help you. Work with your team to compare and analyze your shortlist of candidates.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

How many of you report to the Finance Director? Everyone will pledge will change one mind in their organization. Getting that new email system, update web site, or the cloud. Only 4 out of every 10 tech-responsible staff report to leadership. And they let you spend money on technology?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Foundation uses the Blackbaud Grantmaking system, and to expedite the timing, grants managers completed applications on behalf of island employees. “I That changed after the pandemic when Tacker and her team streamlined their tech systems for more efficiency. “In Everyone on the island suffered a loss.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2023

Clearly, my conversation partner didn’t understand the role of a CFO, let alone how important the position is in providing financial acumen and strategic vision in the rapidly changing nonprofit sector. Interview Question: Tell us about a time you implemented a new technology, software, or system.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 2, 2021

One of the greatest ways we can support individual communities big and small is in support of our healthcare system and our community health centers across the country,” Bird continued. . Cloud for Good is here to ensure hospital foundations can navigate their technology change to Salesforce in a smooth and efficient manner.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

At a previous job, I suggested we move from using three Access databases and individual employees’ email programs and spreadsheets to a more robust, centralized, and informative cloud-based Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system. The majority of the rest of the employees took their cue from the top.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The key is to begin, said Linton Myers, Director of Innovation and Incubation at Blackbaud, and keep trying, even if the first attempt is not a slam-dunk. “Risk-averse leaders look at failures as a time loss, resource loss, or budget loss,” Myers said. Make Evangelists of Early Users Change is difficult, Myers says, and it requires buy-in.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We know how impactful Experience Cloud, Elevate, and Marketing Cloud can be for our donors, volunteers, and constituents, but what I found incredibly interesting is how Slack was used to help consolidate technology systems. The caseworker was able to edit, send, or update the case directly from Slack! Education Cloud.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Beyond financial and equipment matters, one of the most important concerns that can dictate the technological success or failure of a merger is change management. Sometimes, staff will still resist, even if the changes involve improvements for the better. No one wants to spend six months bogged down with a phone system change.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

But with change comes new opportunities to evaluate and improve on existing business processes and demonstrate to existing and potential supporters that your organization is dedicated to compliance and ethical accounting practices. This article and infographic provides tips for getting started with compliance change management.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Annika Billqvist, Office and Technology Manager, HandsOn Bay Area When I started at HandsOn Bay Area in 2006, the organization didn’t have a long-term technology plan in place and used many different systems for communication, collaboration, and data storage. The next step was to create a deployment plan and a timeline for the project.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

I get lots of different answers to this question – theoretically, the most important question to ask when embarking on any type of initiative – and I find Executive Directors and CIOs have different perspectives from end-users and technologists. Sure, we all want on-time, on-budget delivery, that is self-evident.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Peter Campbell, Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice in Oakland, reviewed several drafts and added his insights.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2010

Saturday, May 22, 2010 Use This eBook To Improve Your Communication The former director of communications for McDonalds, David Grossman, now a leading consultant, speaker and author has released a free eBook about how to communicate effectively.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Once Shark Week was over, we tracked our aggregate impact with our social mention tracking system in Radian6 , and shared the impact with the Sharkinar participants. Rachel Weidinger, Director of Upwell , can be found on Twitter at @rachelannyes and @upwell_us. We don’t have to work alone.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased. Are you using systems that require lots of personalization that could be automated? I thought that I was going to power down a little bit. And what I found was that many of. Steven: See you.

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