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We’ve updated information for the September webinar on Your Nonprofit IT Budget, and you will find other useful links here to resources on using and thinking about data at your nonprofit organization.

This webinar covers what your budget needs to include, how to budget for IT security, and how to discuss IT costs calmly with non-technical executives in order to integrate IT as a strategic management decision at all levels.

Links to the slides and YouTube video for our August webinar for nonprofit organizations with Build Consulting “We Are All Data Managers,” including resources, tools, and answers to common questions on encouraging a data management mindset.

For our next webinar, please suggest a topic for us to cover on Wednesday September 20th from 4-5pm EDT.

Data transitions should be part of the exit process, before the final paycheck.  Each employee leaves a data trail, and expectations need to be set about how this data is handled.  You should carefully consider what data needs to be kept, for how long, and who has access to that information.

The biggest rule of data: measurement only matters if it changes the way you act. This article explores how to collect and share data in three strategic areas: fulfilling your promise (how you deliver); failure (what can you change?); and stories people can relate to (qualitative data).

In this recent webinar from Build Consulting Peter Mirus discusses what an official nonprofit database manager does, and join us August 23d for the webinar We Are All Data Managers on ways to change your mindset on gathering and using data no matter what position you hold at your nonprofit.

In this post Vu Le at NonprofitAF discusses the data paradox (you need data to get funding to get the data you need.) There is more and more pressure on nonprofits being able to produce good data. Getting more and better information on practices and outcomes can only be good for our sector, but requiring data can hold some communities back.

Last month we sponsored a workbook from Idealware and presented a webinar on crafting or updating your nonprofit IT security policy – links to both are available here. Join us August 23d when Peter Mirus will help us understand the ways We Are All Data Managers in our next webinar with Build Consulting.

The nomination process is now open to propose a 18NTC Session April 11-13 in New Orleans in 2018. Whether you’re a longtime presenter or are new to the NTEN community and have never presented at the Nonprofit Technology Conference before, you can submit a session proposal.