Growing IT Management Capacity at Nonprofits
Community IT is offering a webinar on “Growing IT Management Capacity at Nonprofits”:
“Can any nonprofit do their best work without highly functioning IT?
Does your organization have someone who truly owns IT?
Not just someone who fixes IT things when they break, but plans for IT, budgets for IT, and makes the case for investing in IT?
If you’re not sure, you’re not alone. Across the nonprofit sector, IT is often the one function where leaders feel licensed to say “I’m not a tech person” and stop there in a way they never would for finance or HR. But being a nonprofit leader means managing what your nonprofit needs to do your work, and functional IT is number one on that list.
Growing IT Management Capacity at Nonprofits
Join Johan Hammerstrom, CEO of Community IT, and Carolyn Woodard, Director of Marketing, for a conversation on why IT management capacity, not just funding for IT tools, is the real lever for nonprofit resilience.
After 25 years working exclusively with nonprofits, we’ve come to believe the sector has a persistent, largely invisible problem: IT management has become separated from organizational leadership in a way no other function has. When nonprofits struggle because they bought the “wrong” software or tech stack, they usually got in that situation because no one owns the strategy, governance, and decision-making behind their technology. This is an opportunity for funders and for the sector to develop that capacity and increase nonprofit resilience.
In this session, Johan and Carolyn will talk through what well-managed IT actually requires. In our experience, the most effective IT leaders at nonprofits don’t need to be the most technical person in the room. What would it look like for leadership and funders to start treating IT management as core organizational infrastructure, the same way they already treat financial management or board development?
Community IT is proudly vendor-agnostic, and our webinars cover a range of topics and discussions. Webinars are never a sales pitch, always a way to share our knowledge with our community.
The session will include time for a dedicated Q&A. You are invited to submit your specific questions regarding IT management and nonprofit leadership when you register.
As with all our webinars, this presentation is appropriate for an audience of varied IT experience.”