Make sure your new technology choices are really the solutions you need.

By David Mckenna

“They” are the people at the nonprofits best qualified to make decisions about software, online options and other technology solutions. The first thing she does as a consultant, Masaoka says, is to make sure the nonprofit’s accounting department is choosing the accounting software and the tech-savvy people in the development program are choosing the donor-management software and overseeing online operations.