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A Closer Look at Nonprofit Technology Benchmarks: Staffing Ratios

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Another benchmark we think is importmant for nonprofits to consider is the ratio of organizational staff to their tech-responsible staff. Even though Leading Organizations tend to be larger, their staffing ratio of org staff to tech staff is still lower than that of Struggling Organizations, who tend to be smaller organizations.

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7th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Report: A Closer Look (Staffing Levels)

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Another way we measure technology staffing levels is determing the Tech Staff - to - Organizational Staff Ratio. If you have 12 total staff members, and you know that the average ratio of tech-to-org staff for your budget size is 1:24, then you know that having at least 0.5 This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

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So many organizations view technology as an administrative, or overhead, expense -- we can argue that point later -- which means that they routinely under-invest to keep that ratio as low as possible. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. That was the easy part of the conversation.

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

So many organizations view technology as an administrative, or overhead, expense -- we can argue that point later -- which means that they routinely under-invest to keep that ratio as low as possible. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. That was the easy part of the conversation.

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