Need to Update Your Information Technology? Try Service Learning

While the need for information in the nonprofit sector is great, shortages of time, staff, money, and expertise make it hard to use information technology effectively. The result is often a vicious cycle in which staff time is spent compiling information manually
when a simple database could dramatically speed the process. But
there's no time to create it. If that situation sounds familiar,
help is at hand in a rapidly growing trend: service learning, in which students, under faculty supervision, undertake information-technology projects for nonprofits. (author)