TechImpact Project UPDATE! Tech Consultants to NPOs Tell All...
Submitted by KatrinVerclas on Sun, 03/25/2007 - 11:09am.
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From the Field: Technology Consultants Report Their Views on the Impact of Technology Assistance to Nonprofits
The results of our technology service provider survey are in! In late 2006 we surveyed tech providers across the country - the first step in the TechImpact research project to help us understand what technology assistance means for nonprofit capacity.
We wanted to understand:
- Who is providing technology assistance to nonprofit organizations? Who do they serve?
- What services do providers offer? What approaches do they use to deliver technology assistance?
- Where are technology providers located? Where are they delivering services?
- When do providers employ evaluation strategies to understand the effect of their work?
- How do providers implement strategies to foster key outcomes for organizations, and how do they successfully achieve those outcomes (e.g., improved efficiency and effectiveness)?
- How do providers measure the success of their projects?
The results were not overly surprising but they substantiate a few relevent points we suspected all along. Noteworthy was that there is no consistency in how providers evaluate their projects and how there are no shared standards or methods to evaluate 'readiness' for a nonprofit tech project. You can read the highlights of what they told us here and download the full report there as well.
