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Duane Ebesu, Housing Works
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After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks last year, the
donations and grant moneys that nonprofits had
counted on dwindled as attention focused on
recovery efforts. New York-based Housing Works, a
provider of housing to homeless people with AIDS,
felt the pinch. CTO Duane Ebesu rallied the
organization to use a strategy he pioneered during
the agency's early days: Housing Works wouldn't buy
computers.
Ebesu saw assets in discarded computers and had
his IT staff recondition them for in-house use. More
than half of Ebesu's staff are former agency clients,
who were mentored within his department and sent
to school with a Housing Works subsidy. The program
is a community model. Early next year, Ebesu will roll out a technology and
training service available to all New York City nonprofits.
"I'd like nonprofits to understand that technology isn't aside from their vision,
but a part of it," Ebesu says.
IT leaders of nonprofits didn't get into their organizations because of earning
potential, Ebesu says. They have an understanding "of [a] difference that
serves as an internal compass by which to guide their organizations. Nonprofit
leadership is also more complicated because the measures of performance
that come so easily to for-profit organizations [widget sales figures] are
absent within nonprofits, which need to measure their performance by
improvements in the lives of people, which is often very difficult," he says.
-- L.W.P.
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