Recruit new board members and educate them about your agency more easily

Recruit volunteers and recognize the value of their services in a very public manner

Education
Educate stakeholders about your services, mission, vision and values

Educate the community about local issues that affect them

Educate your employees about agency policies and benefit plans

Communication
Obtain feedback from stakeholder groups online

Create an internal or external agency newsletter without the printing and postage costs

Recognize outstanding accomplishments, staff, services, agency performance, etc.

Announce staff meeting dates and agendas

Proactively share your financial information to potential funding sources

Issue press release web pages concerning local issues

Communicate and learn from other non-profits from around the country and world

Program Delivery
Publish a database of resource materials and lending library of books and videos on the web

Provide information to your target customer groups

Create web-based assessment forms for client intake

Program Management
Allow managers at remote sites to submit utilization statistics online

Post upcoming meeting dates, agendas and minutes

Submit time sheets to a database in the HR office

Post outcome information required by funders on the web

Information and Referral
Provide links to social service resources (treatment programs, self-helpgroups, hospitals, clinics, etc.)

Provide complimentary pages on your website to support local self-help groups (AA, NA, MADD, SADD, Youth groups, etc.)

Fund Raising
Solicit and accept donations online

Communicate fund raising activities to the community

A website is a tool for Non-Profits

Technology is good stewardship

Website as a tool:
Many Non-Profits have begun to develop programs that serve an increasingly diverse population. Boards of Directors are becoming more active and staff more specialized. A shift in thinking has even changed many non-profits to see their clients now as customers.

As technology continues to spread into the lives of everyday people, including more vulnerable populations, the internet becomes increasingly important in helping non-profits carry out their missions.

A website is a tool that can be used to meet the varied and changing needs of these "customer" groups.

Technology is good stewardship:
Technology offers non-profit organization the opportunity to make themselves lean, mean and flexible.  Fulfilling non-profit missions means being effective, efficient and innovative.  In todays competitive environment, even non-profits cannot hope to function productively without using technology. Nor can non-profit organizations take funding by external customers for granted.  Funding sources are looking for outcomes and non-profits will prove they are good stewards of the funding they receive only if their houses are in order; a job that will require the use of technology.