Non-profits have a lot in common: too much to do, too little funding to do it all, people getting reassigned or moving to a new position.
The result is the organization has a challenge in keeping skilled personnel in the jobs for which they were trained. This creates a constant source of turnover and retraining, thus diverting management's focus from their "day jobs".
Non-profits also share the common issues of creating and maintaining membership and executing on fundraising events both which are vital sources of revenues for such organizations.
Managing and administrating these tasks manually may seem reasonable when there are just a small number of members, but as organizations grow it becomes clear that some sort of automation of these tasks is mandatory.
Today there are a growing number of mature software tools that are highly affordable, easy to use, and that help to automate a significant portion of the administrative tasks of a non-profit organization.
These tools have been developed using content management systems (CMS) that gives both the software developer of that software and its users a much higher degree of flexibility and control. CMS is quickly becoming a mainstream choice for web developers and web owners (see my previous blog on CMS systems). And these new event & membership management tools have become quite affordable (usually less than a few thousand dollars to set up and a couple of hundred dollars a month subscription to the software). It is all web-based and multi-user with varying levels of user control over the website itself and the event & membership tasks.
eBizServices works with non-profits to sort through the choices of which tools to use and offers assistance in initially setting up the system. Once up and running, it is managed directly by the non-profit. eBizServices also offers training so employees within the organization can step in and take over should someone go on assignment, vacation or leave the group. These new tools are easy to learn, intuitively clear, and it's easy to get new employees up and running.
Give eBizServices a call - we've done a number of these systems and can help you get up to speed quickly, put you back in control, and save money.
