2009 (June) Roundtables: Managing Information
Great Bay hosted two Roundtable discussions in June - one in Claremont, NH for Vermont and New Hampshire grantees and one in Upper Newton, MA for Massachusetts and Rhode Island grantees.
Given the predictions that the recession is almost certain to continue to impact nonprofits well into 2010, Great Bay is focusing its 2009 Roundtables on some of the issues grantees have told us are most critical to their survival in these tough times.
Managing information is essential to running an enterprise successfully - especially in the current environment. Discussions on this topic are often centered on what to collect and how to collect it, leaving out the critically strategic point of how to use the information collected. The right information not only provides important operational data - it also provides a framework for communicating priorities about what is most important to you as an organization. For information to be an asset, the social entrepreneur needs to focus not only on what information to collect, but also on why the information is being collected, and how it will be used to leverage each stakeholder - Management, Employees, Clients, Community, Funders/Investors – to the enterprise’s best advantage.
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