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When is the last time you assessed your nonprofit office
to determine if you had a requirement for computers for your
non profit? You may find that you are using very old systems
and that this practice is costing your nonprofit organization
valuable time and money. When these statements are made and
by the way, they are popular subjects of blogs, many readers
at first wonder how this could be. Why is it that using old
systems is causing these issues and so what if a volunteer
doesn't always have a computer to use and can't we also get
by without one by doing more manual tasks and using paper
instead of getting more computers for non profit organizations?
When looking deeper in this and evaluating the need for a
newer computer for non profit, the decision is usually made
carefully and the evaluation and analysis justified through
the course of committees and other meetings where facts and
figures are researched and presented. The note here is how
are they researched? They are done so on computers for non
profit! That is also how they are presented. They are not
done on chalk boards and multiple handouts.
So in order to decide if you need the systems, the group must
actually use systems to find this out. Usually, when the work
is done, a computer for non profit is decided on because it
was during the research that this became most apparent. This
is also seen on other areas of needs discover so computers
would reason to be no different. In summary, when the work
is done and the information has been gathered, the computer
is found to be needed for the nonprofit organization and then
the next step is how to pay for it. If the approach is money
first, then the project usually closes as a failed one and
the organization continues on with non-updated technology
which means not enough computer power or computers for users. |