Technology Planning available to North Carolina Nonprofits

1.28.08 - Thanks to a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation netCorps will be offering technology assessment and planning services to up to fifteen North Carolina nonprofits at a significantly reduced cost in 2008. A technology assessment and planning process helps an organization look at their infrastructure, information management and communication management systems in the short and long term and creates a plan for maintaining and improving those tools to help build organizational capacity, meet specific administrative or program goals or more.

We typically spend between 20-30 hours on a nonprofit technology assessement, but thanks to support from ZSR this process will only cost $500 to the first fifteen North Carolina nonprofits to sign up for this service during 2008. Contact Sean Watson in our Durham office (919-416-1513 or via email) for more information.

Summary of planned workshops and registration links

Mediation Works: An IT Success Story from Southern Oregon

10.17.07 - netCorps’ relationship with Mediation Works began in the Fall of 2003. Picture a situation where everything is much harder than it needs to be and the technology in use is only making things worse. Computers weren’t networked. Users ran between machines to find information. Each computer ran different versions of software, so sharing documents was difficult. Because information was spread around it was impossible to back up. The whole office shared one email account so the office manager printed everyone’s emails and put them on their desks. The donated phone system was not fully functional. Plus there was only one voicemail box for the entire organization so no one could easily get messages. There was no database of constituents. Instead, each person had their own Excel sheet on their own computer with their own contacts. It was a situation generously described as “frustrating”. more...