CDC Assistance
Funded by: Living Cities
In partnership with: LISC & The Enterprise Foundation
Project Details
In collaboration with LISC and Enterprise, NPower partnered with CDCs in: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Miami, New York, San Antonio, San Francisco (Bay Area), Seattle, and the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul).
Our efforts have resulted in two different benefits. First of all, the CDCs we have worked with have received direct training and consulting services that have helped them build the capacity of their organizations to deliver on their valuable missions. Second, our exposure to so many CDCs allowed us to develop a number of resources that address needs that many CDCs have. We have codified that knowledge a set of guides, available below, that address issues of specific interest of CDCs.
Downloads
IT Staffing-A Guide to Hiring IT Staff Effectively (File type: Acrobat PDF)
Finding the right balance between staff, consultants and volunteers is no easy task when it comes to supporting your technology. This guide helps you find the right mix to ensure your technology resources are well maintained and really assisting you in accomplishing your mission.
Technology For CDCs-A Guide to Content Management Systems (File type: Acrobat PDF)
Web-based technologies offer CDCs one of the best ways to communicate their efforts. However, CDCs are often confronted by technical issues and staffing limitations that inhibit their ability to keep information timely on their sites or to take their sites beyond a simple brochure. This paper is a guide to a variety of tools that will help you take your web site to the next level and manage it easily.
Strengthening Technology Skills in your CDC- A Guide to Enhancing Technology Literacy and Developing Training Plans (File type: Acrobat PDF)
In the end, it is the people at your CDC and how they use technology that will make the difference, not the technology alone. This paper will help you develop staff training plans that build critical technology literacy within your organization.
Financial Software and Technologies: Tech Innovations and Their Implications for CDCs (File type: Acrobat PDF)
This paper discusses the current use, challenges and potential for financial management software solutions that meet the needs of CDCs.
Application Service Providers (ASPs) as a Mission-Tool for CDCs (File type: Acrobat PDF)
The potential of accessing software over the Internet that would otherwise be installed on your own PCs or servers can reduce the cost and burden of its use. This paper details the case for CDCs to take advantage of this compelling model.
Estimating and Meeting CDC's Technology Capacity Needs (File type: Acrobat PDF)
This paper emerges from concerns about the ability of the nonprofit sector to take advantage of the opportunities created by the information and communications revolution. It outlines the building blocks of technology capacity and looks at the status of technology in a recent sample of CDCs as compared to technology standards developed by Living Cities and its partners.
