Why Your Foundation Needs a Long-Term Technology Strategy
A holistic, multi-year technology and data strategy is essential for your foundation’s operational excellence and future success. But with multiple stakeholders to consider and budget, operational, and time constraints, it can be hard to even know where to start.
Join Submittable for a Q&A-style interview with Sam Caplan, Founder of New Spark Strategy and former Chief Information Officer and Deputy Director of Operations of the Walton Family Foundation. Sam has led some of the most innovative grantmaking technology and operations in philanthropy, and now runs a consulting practice dedicated to helping foundations establish world-class technology strategy and operations.
You’ll hear ideas for:
How to build a long-term strategy for your foundation’s technology and data
Managing IT budgeting, staffing, and outside services
Encouraging digital transformation
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Sam Caplan is the Vice President of Social Impact at Submittable, a platform that foundations, governments, nonprofits, and other changemakers use to launch, manage, and measure impactful granting and CSR programs. Inspired by the amazing work performed by practitioners of all stripes, Sam strives to help them achieve their missions through better, more effective software.
Sam formerly served as founder of New Spark Strategy, Chief Information Officer at the Walton Family Foundation, and head of technology at the Walmart Foundation. He consults, advises, and writes on social impact technology, strategy, and innovation.
Connect with or follow Sam on Linkedin, listen to his podcast Impact Audio, and subscribe to his bi-weekly newsletter The Review.
Keriann Strickland manages content and branding for Submittable's marketing team. She's a recovering journalist, mountain lover, and gifted spiller (and speller).
Hosted By:
Sam Caplan is the Vice President of Social Impact at Submittable, a platform that foundations, governments, nonprofits, and other changemakers use to launch, manage, and measure impactful granting and CSR programs. Inspired by the amazing work performed by practitioners of all stripes, Sam strives to help them achieve their missions through better, more effective software.
Sam formerly served as founder of New Spark Strategy, Chief Information Officer at the Walton Family Foundation, and head of technology at the Walmart Foundation. He consults, advises, and writes on social impact technology, strategy, and innovation.
Connect with or follow Sam on Linkedin, listen to his podcast Impact Audio, and subscribe to his bi-weekly newsletter The Review.
Keriann Strickland manages content and branding for Submittable's marketing team. She's a recovering journalist, mountain lover, and gifted spiller (and speller).
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