November 19, 2013
Encourage Creativity to Foster Innovation
Founded in 1977 the CCC helps its community clinics provide care to 1 in 6 San Diegans. And, since the County of San Diego does not operate a public hospital or public clinics, the CCC-member nonprofit community clinics and health centers are one of the few safety nets for primary care services for low-income and uninsured individuals.
Since 2003, UST has provided definite cost savings and proven budgeting abilities that have been put directly back into helping pay for the meals of those reliant on MOW. Even though the agency has a history of very low turnover, and rare incidents of dismissal, the claims monitoring services helped prevent a costly fraudulent unemployment claim from being successful. UST educational offerings have also helped prevent the agency from running into any other fraudulent claims by providing information on best hiring practices and documentation.
“I think that unemployment taxes are one of those things that people don’t want to talk about. But, we’re doing our best to control our risk levels because we want to be the best stewards of the public’s money that we can be, and I think UST helps us do that,” said Faris.
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Innovation most often occurs when something new or different is introduced— often a product or service. Giving nonprofits a leg up on their competition, creativity and innovative ideas can help advance mission objectives.
Learning how to increase productivity, whilst saving time, money, and other resources, requires an extensive process of trial-and-error. However, due to a lack of encouragement and seldom office-wide participation, many nonprofits are handicapping their potential innovators.
Innovative ideas within the workplace are often unheard or simply ignored. Afraid of stepping outside of procedural guidelines, many employees shy away from sharing their creative input—especially to higher authority figures.
Follow these 4 strategies to make innovative thinking an accepted standard for every job position:
Innovation provides organizational growth opportunities and keeps your nonprofit from remaining static. Through allocated resources and abundant reassurance, your employees will adapt innovative thinking as a second-nature behavior. Building a unified team effort, through open brainstorming opportunities, will create inclusive internal relationships and strong external impressions.
Learn more tasks to breed innovation here.