Ways Technology Impacts Those in Need and Those Who Meet Needs
By Edward Granger-Happ
Technology is a key capacity building service for effective communications, operations and strategic impact on poverty in the world as it moves from organization-facing to beneficiary-facing applications. Capacity building is a much used term in nonprofit organizations. It can mean training, adding headcount and the ability to scale up programs. But these are often linear growth opportunities. Increasing the impact of scarce resources requires the productivity enhancing capabilities that only technology can offer. In short, technology helps the same people get more done. And this means reaching more of the disadvantaged in the world for the same donor dollar...

The Impact of Technology on the Nonprofit Sector
By Charles F. MacCormack, Ph.D.
When I came to Save the Children 13 years ago, our agency was an $86 million organization. Our pie chart ratio—a key measure for us—was about 22% fundraising and administration while 78% went to children’s programs. For Child Sponsorship, the ratio was closer to 50-50. Today, we are a $400 million organization. Our pie chart ratio is now 90-10 overall, and for Sponsorship it’s 75-25. One of the key reasons this has happened is due to technology...

Disaster Relief: A compendium of learnings from engagements in Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Iran, Sudan, Guatemala, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, & Lebanon
By Dipak Basu
A compendium of learnings from engagements in Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Iran, Sudan, Guatemala, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Lebanon...

Information Communications Technology Skill Building
By Frank Schott
When disaster strikes, humanitarian organizations spring to action in an effort to save lives and ease human suffering. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) makes it possible to gather information about the affected area, share assessments, communicating requirements, and report on progress of relief efforts. Setting up mission critical ICT solutions and then using them to their full potential is the responsibility of the IT professionals and program workers working for humanitarian organizations in 185 countries around the world...