On February 18, 2021, we hosted the "Who’s Using the Nonprofit CDM and How?" virtual event. In this webinar, Chris Zimney, CEO of Zimney & Company, and David Hisler, Senior Director and Global Solution Lead at Avanade - Tech for Social Good, shared insights on how the Nonprofit Common Data Model (NCDM) is relevant, beneficial, and functional to product developers (ISV), consultants (SI), and nonprofits at-large.
In this recording of the webinar, you'll learn...
- How different Nonprofit CDM community members are implementing the data model
- How the Nonprofit CDM can benefit your business as you implement solutions
- How the Nonprofit CDM can benefit your nonprofit as you organize your data and grow
Bite-Size Food for Thought
“This is a space where we want to say, what can we do to move the needle on impact towards the SDG goals?...the way we get there is starting with the data.” Tim Lockie, CEO of Now IT Matters
“From a mission perspective, we want to nurture the growth of an ecosystem where we can effectively achieve the SDGs through business, nonprofit, and individual collaboration. Going from aspiration to what we can build in the community.” Ryan Ozimek, CEO of PICnet
“This is an opportunity for us, as business leaders, to use business as a force for good.” Ryan Ozimek, CEO of PICnet
“The goal is introducing some degree of rigor, control, and quality over data, in a way that is seamless to the end user.” Chris Zimney, CEO of Zimney & Company
“Our product (Operations Essentials for Nonprofits) is a composition, an aggregate view of all of the things that have been developed for us (NCDM and others), packaged for the market and customers that we want to help.” Chris Zimney, CEO of Zimney & Company
“The most immediate benefit is that we aren’t starting from scratch. As a product developer, you aren’t wasting time arguing about the structure of the entities, the fields, the naming, or the meaning of these things.” Chris Zimney, CEO of Zimney & Company
“It’s early, so as a developer you get the opportunity to build early. Develop something quick and useful and put it out there.” Chris Zimney, CEO of Zimney & Company
"You can plug it in, almost turnkey, because you have the schema and the model in place in a way that before, would’ve taken crazy money.” Chris Zimney, CEO of Zimney & Company
“You’re talking about crazy money, over the course of a 10 year period, that this tool has the potential to save and put those dollars toward something higher value in the world.” Chris Zimney, CEO of Zimney & Company
“When moving forward, from an SI perspective, I see a ton of untapped potential and opportunity.” David Hisler, Senior Director and Global Solution Lead at Avanade - Tech for Social Good
“When you run projects, from an SI perspective, it’s extremely important that those experiences with the NCDM, whether good or bad, be heard by the community.” David Hisler, Senior Director and Global Solution Lead at Avanade - Tech for Social Good
“There’s a lot of fertile ground to do a lot of things with the NCDM.” Ryan Ozimek, CEO of PICnet
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