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Welcome to Digital Progress, a Seattle-based project for enhancing tech savvy in the nonprofit world. Our goal is to train nonprofits in IT self-sufficiency by simplifying, and reducing the costs of, IT strategy design and volunteer management. By empowering nonprofits to engage independently and fruitfully with volunteers, we believe we can help them be more effective at crowd-sourcing their tech problems within the volunteer community.
How Do We Go About It?
We provide a portfolio of low-cost and easily replicable training courses, templates for “tech audits” and IT product/project management guidelines that simplify the process of launching new IT tools and services. We also simplify the process of finding tech volunteers, and identify the critical missteps nonprofits make in engaging with them.
Our guidelines include methods for analyzing gaps in IT infrastructure, writing marketing and product requirements documents for new IT applications, creating modularized implementation plans, and recruiting and managing volunteers with the appropriate skill sets. Additionally, we develop and maintain a project manager and developer volunteer pool that can supply “short-order” talent for most routine IT tasks, and provide on-going training programs that help organizations remain at the cutting-edge of the IT world while staying focused on and relevant to their core missions.
We believe that advocacy organizations and other nonprofits have the same technology needs of private enterprises and they shouldn’t be shut out of the right solutions due to lack of resources. Free/low-cost licenses aren’t enough — what organizations need is a holistic education in what IT means Digital Progress unlocks the rich technical talent available as skills-based volunteers by providing a layer of IT program management, fulfilling a critical need in the non-profit world. Our model is to help nonprofits learn how to acquire these skills, so that they can engage with high-octane tech volunteers in a self-serve model.
We are being supported as a project of Win/Win Action, a registered 501 (c) (3) nonprofit in Washington State’s Puget Sound Area.
How Can You Help?
Do you know an organization or project that needs IT help? Do you have ninja developer/design skills you’d love to donate to the right cause but don’t know how (or are afraid of wasting your time)? Get in touch with us (look for contact option to the right)!
We’d love to learn more about your needs, and use your help to create a great network of talent supporting progressive advocacy organizations in our neighborhood and communities.
Email us at info [AT] digital-progress.org to get in touch!