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Nonprofits face fierce headwinds, look to private sector to fill funding gaps | Philanthropy News Digest, 02 aug 2025
The Editor's Post: Diversity in social enterprise: do positive attitudes lead to positive action? | Pioneers Post, 01 aug 2025
Open Board Search - How a new approach to recruiting board members can transform nonprofits | Stanford Social Innovation Review, 31 jul 2025
The 6 best volunteer opportunities for making a difference | Quartz, 29 jul 2025
What Young Social Entrepreneurs Are Teaching Us About Skills, Scale, and Sustainability | UNDP, 15 jul 2025
New report reveals the highs and lows of UK charity management since 2020 | Charity Times, 13 jul 2025
Starting, Scaling and Sustaining Social Innovation | OECD, 25 jun 2025
Educating the Nonprofit Leaders of the Future | Stanford Social Innovation Review, 29 may 2025
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: A CHOICE BETWEEN CHARITY IMPACT AND FINANCIAL RESILIENCE? | Charities Aid Foundation, 27 may 2025
The evolution of research on corporate social responsibility and financial performance: a bibliometric analysis | Taylor & Francis Online, 25 may 2025
April 2022
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 27 apr 2022
Nonprofits, with their limited budgets, have to implement human resource management strategies with great care, more effectively and efficiently. Nonprofits generally hire only essential full-time employees and are more dependent on short-term temporary workers and volunteers. To seamlessly manage diverse set of human resources for maximum output would require HR technology tools. Moreover, nonprofits on a growth trajectory would need a well thought out long-term planning and ulilization of HR technology. This would require analyzing what technologies are used currently and what new technologies are needed. Engaging staff is necessary to evaluate benefits of implementing a new HR system. There are six ways nonprofit can utilize HR technologies for a long-term - (1) Reduce manual workload: Integrated HR software would reduce time spend in compiling and aggregating separate spreadsheets for various purposes. It helps to easily import and export data for reporting. (2) Prevent manual errors: Managing different set of employees (full-time, contract, short-term, volunteers etc) may lead to manual errors in onboarding, payroll, benefits and compensation. HR systems prevent manual errors as they automate calculations. (3) Track your budget in real-time: This helps in anticipating and managing funds for nonprofit's growth and explansion. Guarantor requests, compliance and audit needs are also managed well with budget tracking. (4) Provide important data for grantors' reporting: Well managed payroll reporting helps to provide grantors essential data to release grants that fund employee salaries in a nonprofit. (5) Reduce audit errors: HR technology can identify payroll budget variances or duplicate employee records and helps in preventing fraud, and also ensures cleaner audits in long-term. (6) Improve employee access to benefits, payroll and information: Nonprofits, just like other organizations, need to attract and retain talent for growth and success. HR technology can assist in providing information regarding benefits, compensation and W2 tax form, whenever and wherever they need it. Read on...
Employee Benefit News:
How nonprofits can leverage the benefits of HR technology
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Neil Taurins
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