May 3, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute
By NICOLE WALLACE
CompuMentor and the Management Center, two San Francisco organizations that provide technology assistance to other nonprofit groups, have announced a partnership in which they will work together to help charities develop and carry out strategic technology plans.
Each organization plans to refer its client organizations to the other when clients need services that it cannot provide. One of CompuMentor’s specialties is helping charities think through their technology needs and develop technology plans. The Management Center’s technology services, on the other hand, focus on putting technology in place, including building databases and providing technology training and troubleshooting.
The organizations hope that the alliance will eventually allow them to better integrate technology and organizational planning.
“Sometimes, when you’re implementing an information-technology plan, you discover issues that are under the heading of human resources or organizational development,” says John A. Kenyon, information technology director at the Management Center. For example, he adds, “a database has very little to do with information technology. It has a lot more to do with business processes and how information flows in your agency.”
