Practical Data for Nonprofits: Part 2 — All Data Comes from Somewhere

Very simply and practically, just being aware that everything you need me to type in on a computer has a cost in time and effort is often enough to start moving in a better direction. I like to think of all processes as having a time and energy budget that I’m drawing down every day. For technology, we often have a “good will” budget as well, and it is often very small — if people already hate the database, it’s really hard to get them to try something new in it, because it depletes our good will budget daily with nothing left over.