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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

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Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. Then, in December, some of the sector's top rating agencies, including Guidestar and Charity Navigator , agreed that a new measure is needed.

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

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Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. Then, in December, some of the sector's top rating agencies, including Guidestar and Charity Navigator , agreed that a new measure is needed.

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Technology is 90% Psychology

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Flickr photo: Dom de Oliveira If you've ever implemented a technology project at a nonprofit, you know it's true: technology is 90% psychology. While we used to use change management strategies to help soothe the fears of those who would reject the new database, now we need something slightly more radical: entirely new organizations.