Project management

• Benefits of NCTech4Good project management
  • Our purpose is to bring together technology needs of nonprofit organizations and resources to help nonprofits achieve their missions.
  • Connect volunteers, sponsors, and businesses with nonprofit organizations.
  • People want to help, but they don't always know how. NCTech4Good helps people help each other.
  • Participating community organizations describe their needs and learn about what other organizations are doing.
  • Volunteers learn about current needs, and organizations learn about the volunteers.
  • Sponsors and businesses learn what organizations' needs are.
  • Organizations learn what resources the sponsors and businesses have to offer.
• Initiating projects
  • Describe how the project affects the mission of the organization.
• Promoting projects to find volunteers and financial support
• Project leaders
  • Each project needs a leader/coordinator
  • A large project may need a project champion to get friends, volunteers, and funding for the project.
• Break large projects into small tasks.
• Financial support
  • Cost analysis
• Task assignments.
• Track work done.
• Track satisfaction.
  • Nonprofit with the work done.
  • Volunteers with working with the nonprofit.
• Task completion
• Project completion
• Voting for projects
• Bidding system
  • I could do it for ...
• Tools in place
  • http://nccommunities.org/forum in particular "I need help with ..." and "I have skills and some time to help with ..."
  • Special interest groups for team collaboration, http://nccommunities.org/sigs
• Tools needed now
• Tools wish list
• Possible collaborators and funders to help develop this service
  • VolunteerMatch
  • Public Information Network, Inc.
  • TechSoup
  • NTEN

From organizers meeting June 10, 2009, Watson/Hallman meeting July 2, 2009, and Tech LinkUp