Staffing Information Technology is frequently a challenge for nonprofit organizations. Financial resources are typically limited, and hiring managers often feel overwhelmed and under-educated when it comes to IT. Determining where IT should fit into the organization, how many IT staff people are needed, and what those people should be spending their time doing can be difficult decisions.

In order to shed some light on these questions, NTEN and the Nonprofit Times teamed up to create the Nonprofit IT Staffing Survey. The results of this survey will be presented in three parts. The first report, "Nonprofit IT Staffing: Staffing Levels, Recruiting, Retention, and Outsourcing" focuses on the nature of IT staff and departments in nonprofits.

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Your guide to resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause.

Engage Your Community

> Rob Cottingham at Social Signal tells you how to make friends and influence people online.

> Learn how to engage all those new friends with handy grid and summary of cheap (or free) web-based organizing and collaboration tools by Arthur Prokosch and Deborah Elizabeth Finn. Both can be found at Finn’s blog.

> Looking for fairly cheap and easy to-set-up tools to motivate your new friends to donate? Check out Paul Lamb’s Top 11 Online Ways to Raise Money.

Staff Your IT Department

> Find out what other organizations are paying their IT staff, when they are outsourcing IT functions, and how staff time is allocated to technology. NTEN’s report on Nonprofit IT Staffing:Spending, Salaries, and an Infrastructure for Success Results covers all this and more.