Welcome to the Nonprofit
Technology Learning Center

Shadow IT happens innocently – someone has an application they like from a previous job or a tool they prefer over the one the IT department uses—but it comes with risks. People gain access to data they shouldn’t have, or share it inappropriately. When an employee leaves, you lose access to important data. Shadow IT creates data silos. The good news is there are ways to mitigate these and other risks.

This webinar will teach you how to export and work with your data in Excel, what data is important for fundraising and communications, and how to define and calculate important Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) using formulas.

We'll show how SharePoint can replace your file server, shared drive, or other file storage solution. We'll also review SharePoint's collaborative features and Office 365 apps which complement SharePoint in order to give you a comprehensive insight into how Office 365 and SharePoint can increase your teams' collaboration and productivity.

Join Tech Impact to learn about Microsoft Teams. Teams brings messages, files, people, and tools into a single app in Office 365.

Participants will learn some Salesforce fundamentals and get an overview on how reports are built. The webinar also covers how to manipulate data using various report types, formats, and filtering; how to create dashboards and how they relate to reports and how to share them. We'll also cover some tips and gotchas to be aware of!

Salesforce is a CRM platform initially developed for the for-profit environment. The NPSP adds a nonprofit lens to the base functionality of this powerful system in order to manage donations, constituents and programs. Salesforce offers qualified nonprofits 10 free licenses of the software. This webinar reviews the out of the box functionality of the software, licensing and implementation considerations.

Lightning, an upgrade in Salesforce, is a collection of tools and technologies that provides a modern interface and drag and drop app building capabilities. Many nonprofits have had Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack installed for years and haven’t made the leap to Lightning. This webinar describes the advantages and implications of upgrading a Salesforce instance to Lightning.

Learn about the landscape of voice communication options, differences between Voice Over IP and Microsoft Teams Cloud Calling, features of Microsoft Teams for Voice, and Office 365 Licensing Options

This webinar will start with a brief introduction to the concept of dashboarding, followed by an overview of the Power BI platform. Power BI allows for the automation of data manipulation and aggregation steps, which can save overburdened non-profit professionals a lot of time on reporting. Power BI is also a data visualization platform, which is the functionality we’ll focus on when demoing interactive dashboard creation steps and publishing steps.

Gain access to a year of unlimited live webinars, in-depth live courses, and our library of on-demand education on a variety of technology topics, for only $249/year. Our topics include cloud infrastructure, security, data management, digital marketing, digital fundraising, program and service delivery, technology strategy and governance. They are created specifically for nonprofit professionals.

Disaster can take many forms, from the natural (flood, fire, pandemic) to those caused by humans (theft, cyberattack). This free article provides an overview of how to go about creating a plan to get your nonprofit back up and running in the event of the unthinkable.

This webinar will talk you through tools and techniques for hosting successful virtual events of many types, including fundraising events, conferences, training, and fairs (like job fairs or events that have virtual booths).