As a nonprofit organization, the American Cancer Society must carefully control and manage expenses. And after an unexpected $1,200 audio conferencing overage fee, the organization began researching a way to reduce the costs and complexity of audio conferencing.

This new case study explores how HiDef Corporate from Citrix Online Audio enables the American Cancer Society to cut audio conferencing costs by nearly 50% – savings that bolster the organization’s core mission.

Learn how the American Cancer Society’s Midwest Division uses HiDef Corporate to:

    * Cut audio conferencing costs by 50%.
    * Streamline administration and billing.
    * Simplify conference management with Web Controls.
    * And more…

You might think your non-profit organisation (NPO) doesn’t have much in common with a traditional business. After all, traditional businesses only really care about driving profit and growth—which are certainly important to you but further down your list when compared to other issues like ensuring governance requirements are met, plus the need to manage donors or members, and fulfilling compliance requirements.

However, NPOs and traditional businesses have very real similarities in terms of things like back office operations and staff management. But more than this, an NPO can benefit from the same kind of business intelligence and reporting that drives traditional businesses forward. This can mean the different between a viable, successful NPO that meets its goals—and an NPO that’s failing. And we don’t need to tell you that being seen as failing can be catastrophic from a reputational point of view, which can adversely affect fundraising.

In this white paper we look at some of the specific challenges facing NPOs from the perspective of a back office business operation, and then look at how technology provides solutions to help any NPO to be in total control of their mission—and ensure maximum resources are available for the work that every member of the organisation is passionate about.

The Age of Transparency and Accountability?

Amid increasing demand for transparency and accountability, today’s nonprofits are seeking ways to both produce and to demonstrate successful outcomes. 

Heightened expectations and heightened scrutiny come from several sources—including ever more-engaged funders looking for financial management techniques and principles employed by for-profit businesses. 

To meet this demand, nonprofit organizations are embracing outcome metrics to measure and report their performance.

Longi Engineering was engaged to assist a Community Action non-profit in implementing SharePoint to fulfill several organizational requirements they had as well as resolve multiple challenges they faced. Manual paper processes were hindering the organization from being able to efficiently focus on their goal of providing services and strengthening the community to improve the quality of life for residents in their County.

The Center For Literacy (CFL) is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based nonprofit organization that disrupts cyde of poverty by providing basic math, reading and English language skills to nearly 1,5000 adults,so they can succeed in the workplace in post secondary education.

Within six months of implementing ECM in just one department, Sharp HealthCare experienced so many benefits, it wanted to expand the solution across its entire organization. Not only did it upload the business content of its different departments to ECM, but it also focused on how it could make process improvements using the solution’s native business process management tools to:

• Complete the patient picture
• Support paperless patient registration
• Reduce the use of nursing and chart stations

Working one department at a time, Sharp grew its ECM solution and streamlined processes from the ER to HR.

Atlantic Health Systems, a nonprofit health care organization had a growing patient base and an evolving IT infrastructure that needed a scalable, flexible data center with world-class operations support that could be set up today to accommodate your needs tomorrow. Find out why they turned to Digital Realty. 

Trying to meet evolving donor expectations? Ensure optimum use of funding? Neither is possible if you’re underestimating your direct and indirect overhead costs. Learn four steps to true cost allocation for not-for-profit organizations, and the accountability and transparency benefits a modern cost allocation system can deliver.

Are you looking to rise above the growing climate of unrest and change, and choose the right tools to help you operate efficiently and consistently in a VUCA environment? Find out what are the unique realities of non-profits, why traditional Enterprise Resource Planning solution (ERP) fail non-profits and what to look for when choosing your ERP solution.

When the need for non-profit organizations to maximize impact, efficiency, and accountability is greater than ever, a modern Enterprise Resource Planning solution (ERP) can deliver an array of tangible benefits. Learn how next generation ERP can help improve efficiency, add value to projects, and improve budget forecasting.