Technology Solutions for Non-Profits

How do you keep your Non-Profit competitive with the Profit Companies that have the money to go out and buy new hardware and software?
Well, let’s look at your organization through the eyes of a Profit Corporation.
Most important in today’s economy is Communications with your people. You need to get the word out and receive information from the front lines.
This brings several factors in and the first of these is computer power.
Your Non-Profit needs to invest in computers that have the capabilities to work in the Internet, researching and gathering information as well as releasing information about your organization and its accomplishments.
If no one knows you exist or what you do, no one can support you or use your services.
Secondly, let us look at your communication system within your organization. Is your organization spread out over a large area? Say several counties or even states.
And you need to be able to have meetings to keep everyone on the same page. Another suggestion is an investment in Cell phones such as Nextell Systems that have radio capabilities. You can save cell phone minutes by using the Walkie-Talkie method that this System has to offer.
You can communicate immediately with just those people that you want to talk to.
Also Email through your organization is another excellent method to keep in communications and get information out to the troops.