Technology Assistance to Nonprofits
Technology Assistance to Non-profits: projects which develop tools or provide services which help small non-profits use technology to build their capacity.
CTC VISTAs working in area will consider challenges such as:
- Technology assistance models/approaches
- Range of services provided by TA to NPs
- Difference between TA for organizations vs. for individuals
- Decision making process for CTCs to consider providing TA to nonprofit organizations
- Steps to successfully provide technology assistance to a community technology center, including assessing need, understanding impact on community, and management challenges that affect tech integration
- Ability to assess an organization's stage of technology capacity: infrastructure, integration, or innovation.
- Technology benchmarks for organizational technological literacy.
- How do you use the IT Service Capability Maturity Model to assess an TA Provider's place on the spectrum from ad-hoc services to continuous improvement?
- Approaching technology assistance in a holistic/transformative way (as a coach) rather than just in a symptomatic/transactional way (like a doctor), by tackling technology programs by addressing the health of the whole organization, with a holistic focus on solving a problem but creating/building/supporting excellence overall.
