How to Tame the Program Management Overwhelm

Never miss an episode or recap again! Sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Technopath Way Tips, here: https://www.technopath.ac-page.com/the-technopath-way-sign-up Thank you to this week's sponsor, Sunsama! Have you tried Sunsama? It's one of Sarah's favorite tools to organize her day and get everything done. Her favorite feature? The warning that pops up when she plans too many hours of work tasks to be able to accomplish in 8 work hours a day. Get your first three weeks free with our link: https://www.sunsama.com/a/technopath What do we mean when we say ‘program management’ in terms of Salesforce for nonprofits? Programs are what nonprofits are really all about. They are what nonprofits actually do to serve their constituents. For instance, a nonprofit vision clinic could have a program where they provide free eye exams to children, another program where they provide free eye exams to teenagers, and a third program that accepts donated eye glasses. Today our discussion will focus on the current landscape of program and case management tools out there. Whether it’s a workforce development, a food bank, or an after-school program, any human service program needs to be able to track how the humans they are serving are doing as a result of the nonprofit’s programs. After today’s episode you’ll walk away with a better understanding of why process mapping is crucial to running a sustainable nonprofit, how to get started mapping your organization’s processes and how a program management expert translates these processes into Salesforce. Joining us for this discussion is Matt Henry. Matt is an expert in technologies that help nonprofits run their programs more efficiently. He currently runs his own nonprofit consulting firm, Ascendably, where he helps nonprofits implement and maintain their Salesforce orgs and zero in on their processes. Key Takeaways: Always start by writing out all processes. You’ll be shocked at how many different interpretations there are of certain steps between staff members. Once you’ve written out processes it’s much easier to figure out how to streamline them or even add in a completely new process or program. Try elements.cloud, Lucidchart, or draw.io to create a visual representation of your processes Watch Matt map out a nonprofit’s processes in real time in the free webinar pinned at the top of our free community NPSP Academy: https://npsp-academy.mn.co/share/nxvxYbrrqeCqJ_yb?utm_source=manual Matt uses Sunsama every day to organize his most pressing tasks and keep himself on track as an independent consultant with many projects going at once. Try it today: https://www.sunsama.com/a/technopath