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Top Educational Resources for Nonprofit Professionals

NXUnite

At times, however, nonprofit team members will encounter projects and tasks that they don’t have prior experience in handling. That’s where educational resources come in. These resources provide nonprofit professionals, such as yourself, with a lower-cost way to develop their skills and grow professionally.

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AMS Project Management Basics for Association Smarties

Achurch

You’re the one chosen as the project’s manager, yet you’ve never implemented a new AMS. Your AMS vendor assigned a project manager to your implementation. Yes, your AMS vendor has an implementation project manager (PM), but your association needs your own PM to keep your team on track and look out for your interests.

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To Build or Buy a Software Solution: Which is Right for You?

Association Analytics

Implementing a new software solution is a huge project. Once you dig a little deeper, you’ll see there are, in fact, ongoing costs with an in-house build in addition to some pretty steep up-front costs. This may include new staff or reassigned staff from other important projects. Time to Value or Return on Investment.

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Financial impacts: What the costs of COVID-19 mean for community associations

Ungrated

Higher operating expenses and unanticipated costs due to the ongoing global crisis pose challenges to association budget projections, reserves planning, and maintenance requirements. While companies can’t expect to pass all of these costs to their clients, some percentage must be recovered to remain operational.

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Project Portfolio Management: Why You Need It - Part I

Delcor

And yet, not many organizations use a disciplined process to optimally select the projects they are investing in with people, dollars, and time. Due to inadequate project oversight and/or belief in the sunk cost fallacy , an organization continues to fund a project that is substantially over budget. Principle # (above).

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Project Portfolio Management Part III: Monitoring and Evaluation

Delcor

You have evaluated and prioritized projects , scheduled resources , and now the scheduled projects are underway. However, in the same way an investment manager’s job isn’t complete when the stocks are picked and the trades are completed, a project portfolio needs regular monitoring and evaluation.

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Project Portfolio Management Part I: Why You Need It

Delcor

And yet, not many organizations use a disciplined process to optimally select the projects they are investing in with people, dollars, and time. Due to inadequate project oversight and/or belief in the sunk cost fallacy , an organization continues to fund a project that is substantially over budget. Principle # (above).

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