Set four intentions to make 2025 safer, saner, and more fun for your IT staff and your nonprofit.
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Four Nonprofit IT New Year’s Resolutions
Now is the month to set intentions for the year ahead. We know nonprofits are facing challenges in a challenging time. Be intentional about setting expectations for yourself and your organization this year and you will take some of the stress off.
Director of Outreach and podcast host Carolyn Woodard walks through four resolutions you can make to make 2025 easier on yourself.
- Put self-care first – set yourself up for mental and physical health so you can do the things your nonprofit needs you to do
- Put organization care second – up your cybersecurity to meet evolving threats
- Clean up! – do a spring cleaning of your files, data inventory, and subscriptions
- Do something fun – take a tutorial, come together as a team
Taking these four steps – keeping these 4 New Year’s Resolutions – will make your 2025 safer, saner, less stressed, and more fun. We provide lots of the resources you need on our site – you just need to set your intentions and keep these priorities through the year.
Some key resources:
- De-Stress! Self-Care for Nonprofit IT Staff
- Cybersecurity Readiness for Nonprofits Playbook
- SAS145 Auditing Guidelines
- DKIM/DMARC and email deliverability
- Single Sign On (SSO)
- MFA updates
- File Structure and Permissions Best Practices
- Data Governance
- Subscriptions Inventory
- Becoming a Learning Organization
- Using an IT Skills Matrix for team building
- Skills Matrix Best Practices hosted by Build Consulting
Presenter
Carolyn Woodard is currently head of Marketing and Outreach at Community IT Innovators. She has served many roles at Community IT, from client to project manager to marketing. With over twenty years of experience in the nonprofit world, including as a nonprofit technology project manager and Director of IT at both large and small organizations, Carolyn knows the frustrations and delights of working with technology professionals, accidental techies, executives, and staff to deliver your organization’s mission and keep your IT infrastructure operating. She has a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from Johns Hopkins University and received her undergraduate degree in English Literature from Williams College.
She hopes these 4 New Year’s Resolutions help set your nonprofit – and yourself – up for success.
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Community IT has been serving nonprofits exclusively for twenty years. We offer Managed IT support services for nonprofits that want to outsource all or part of their IT support and hosted services. For a fixed monthly fee, we provide unlimited remote and on-site help desk support, proactive network management, and ongoing IT planning from a dedicated team of experts in nonprofit-focused IT. And our clients benefit from our IT Business Managers team who will work with you to plan your IT investments and technology roadmap if you don’t have an in-house IT Director.
We constantly research and evaluate new technology to ensure that you get cutting-edge solutions that are tailored to your organization, using standard industry tech tools that don’t lock you into a single vendor or consultant. And we don’t treat any aspect of nonprofit IT as if it is too complicated for you to understand. When you are worried about your email safety and phishing attempts, you shouldn’t have to worry about understanding your provider.
If you have questions about cybersecurity, data or subscription inventories, or anything else mentioned in this podcast you can contact us here.
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