Kudos to the CLP

Anyone who has spent even a small amount of time working with NGOs knows the challenge of getting through the endless admin.  It’s enormously time-consuming, and when it involves interacting with online portals (that seem to be needed for EVERYTHING these days), it can be incredibly frustrating!  Especially when the tech interface that’s supposed to make things quicker and easier comes with ZERO tech support …

So this is a shout-out to the Civic Leadership Project, which is dedicated to strengthening the capacity of communities and non-profit organisations like us.  After years of poor auditing advice and floundering around, looking for the simplest, most cost-effective ways to complete our IRS 900 form, we finally came across the CLP’s Form 990 Online.  Thanks to their very usable interface, we were able to input our information, let their back-end system convert everything into the right format, and send it to the IRS with very few bumps along the way! When we did have two small challenges, their support team came back to us within minutes with suggestions that really worked. Many thanks to this effective and dedicated civic-minded team for making what is usually onerous both easy and efficient.