Back to the Future with Rethinking Overhead
Way back in 2010, I was fortunate to be part of an amazing team with NCN founder China Brotsky, former-Executive Director Roxanne Hanson, and former staff member Tuan Ngo. Together, we co-wrote NCN’s Guide to Shared Services.
Our intention was to support NCN member organizations’ interests in collaborative access to back-office job functions, what we termed “shared services.”
Our opening lines of the Guide read,
“Nonprofit organizations face challenging times. Volatile financial markets are impacting funding opportunities while the demand for services as well as operating expenses are increasing. For the majority of nonprofit organizations with already limited resources these challenges indicate a need for a new paradigm.”
Sound familiar?
While many things have changed in the past 9 years, pressures are still driving organizations to conserve precious resources and explore collaborative strategies. As a result, many organizations are considering the potential to share back-office services.
With this in mind, a new amazing NCN team of co-writers, featuring Chelsea Donahoe, Katie Edwards, myself and other advisors, is currently drafting “Rethinking Overhead,” a new on-line publication series and version 2.0 of the original Shared Services Guide.
Each section of Rethinking Overhead will help readers to:
- Learn about strategies for accessing shared back office services
- Hear advice from shared services providers and customers; and,
- Consider options for implementing shared services within a network of organizations
We are aiming to release Rethinking Overhead in March 2019 so please stay tuned. And in the meantime, just drop us a line if there are other ways that the NCN team can support your shared services efforts.