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Tom Moberg I Ellery July MAP for Nonprofits I Minnesota Online
High School
Create an IT Budget
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Getting to Know You
Mission Driven
Elements of a Good Budget
Questions
Agenda & Outcome
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Some Questions pt. 1
What is the size of your organization?
Small (less than $1M)
Medium ($1M to $5M)
Large ($5M to $10M)
Very Large (larger than $10M)
Do you have dedicated IT staff?
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Some Questions pt. 2
Do you create the IT budget?
Is technology part of your long term organizational plan?
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A Mission Driven Budget
From Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission, p. 11
Every organization, no matter the size or budget, can align IT
with their mission for more impact. The first part of the task is
to know where you are now so you can plan where youre going.
The Five Stages of Managing Technology
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NTEN Staffing and Investment Report
Another way to look at this:
Struggling
Functioning
Operating
Leading
Either way, the goal is moving to the next level
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Some tidbits from the report
Median technology budget: 1% to 2.2% of total budget
Average small org tech budget: $10,822
Leading organizations are nearly 2x more likely to include
technology in their strategic plans than Struggling
organizations
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Decisions that will impact your budget
Organizational mission
Role of tech staff vs volunteers vs consultants
Open source vs subscription vs buy now
BYOD
Grants vs general fund for IT
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Three steps for your consideration
Who and how
Costs to include
Run Grow Transform
Remember budget is a guide; not an ultimatum
Create your Budget
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Who creates your budget
Be proactive
Involve as many people as possible
Meeting
Survey
Connect it to your mission
What happens with technology
What does not happen when it is not working
Understand budget in relationship to
Organizational budget
Number of users
Organizational outcomes
Step 1
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What costs do you know or anticipate
Years
Past / Current Year
Next 3 years
Personnel
Training
Consulting
Support
Hardware
depreciation
Software
Subscriptions / Licenses
Income/Revenue
Step 2
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Run Grow Transform : Integrating Business and Lean ITSteven Bell
http://leanitstrategies.com/
Run - Ongoing operations
Grow - Optimize Systems
Transform - Test/Innovate
Step 3
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What did we learn today?
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http://leanitstrategies.com/
Management Information Systems for the Information Age
Run Grow Transform: Integrating Business and Lean IT by Steven
Bell
Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission by Holly Ross
Measuring the Networked Nonprofit by Beth Kanter
Wired for Good: Strategic Technology Planning for Nonprofits by
Joni Podolsky
Accidental Techie by Sue Bennett
Sources
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Tom MobergMAP for
Nonprofits@[email protected]
Ellery JulyMinnesota Online High
School@[email protected]
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