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["William Lester" <wlester AT engenderhealth.org>]

In his email, Dykki mentioned the NPOKI meeting in December. For those of you who may not know about this, I've attached the invitation that went out to members of the NPOKI listserv and cordially extend that invitation to members of the GRHITS listserv. Please feel free to share this invite with appropriate folks within your organizations. Most of the people attending are IT directors, VP of Operations, CIOs, Evaluation & Research staff, and Knowledge management staff.

 

Cheers,

 

Bill

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• From: "William Lester" <wlester AT engenderhealth.org>
• To: <npoki AT npogroups.org>
• Subject: [npoki] NPOKI December Meeting
• Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:04:24 -0500

November 1, 2005

 

Dear Colleagues:

 

We would like to invite you to participate in the second formal meeting of the newly established Non-Profit Organizations Knowledge Initiative, also known as NPOKI.  The meeting will be held over the 15^th and 16^th of December at the JHPIEGO offices in Baltimore, MD.  The main objective of this facilitated meeting will be to discuss the next steps to move our ambitious and innovative knowledge management partnership forward. To help us, we need input from our members, our partners, our grantees, and our funders. Therefore, we need you.

 

As you may know, NPOKI was established earlier this year by programme and operations staff from IPPF, EngenderHealth, PPFA, and PATH.  After recognizing a common need for a similar, next generation information management system, representatives from our organizations began exploring how we might pool resources and expertise in order to develop such a system – one that would be customizable to any organization’s requirements and available for open use by all of our organizations, and possibly others in the nonprofit sector including our funders and grantees. 

 

The goals of this software project will be supported by the experiences of the NPOKI membership, and particularly those of IPPF and EngenderHealth (EH) who have each developed their own in-house systems during the last four years.  Both of these systems were surprisingly similar and designed to facilitate the monitoring, evaluation and reporting of programmatic and financial programme/project activities worldwide.  They also each required significant investment of funds.  While these systems have been effective in meeting many of their immediate goals, there is now a pressing need for updated versions of both. 

 

In order to explore possibilities for collaborating on this software project, the group held a first meeting at EngenderHealth in May, 2005.  The meeting was, by all accounts, a terrific success, and led to the generation of additional ideas for the partnership projects, all focused on ways to share resources and expertise aimed at improving knowledge management within our organizations.  Since then, a number of working groups have been established and are meeting regularly to pursue the various topics and ideas raised last May. We’ve been joined in our efforts with representatives from Ipas, IntraHealth, Pathfinder, and JHPIEGO.

 

The upcoming meeting in December will provide an opportunity for us to follow-up on these various ideas and discuss concrete plans for moving forward.  It will also provide an opportunity for other organizations (including our grantees and funders) to learn more about NPOKI and possibly get involved.  We have enclosed a draft agenda for the meeting and a document containing more details about the brief history of NPOKI.  Additional meeting details, including suggested hotel accommodation and the latest version of the agenda will be accessible soon on our new website: www.npoki.org. And yes, we may even consider changing our name <g>.

 

Please RSVP and feel free to call or write Bill Lester (CIO, EngenderHealth) with any questions about the meeting.  He can be reached at wlester AT engenderhealth.org / +1 (212) 561 8002.  If there are any others within your organization who might also be interested in attending this meeting, please pass along a copy of the invitation.

 

We hope you will join us in December.    

 

Best regards,

 

NPOKI Meeting Steering Committee

Daniel Messer, IPPF

Wendy Sheldon, PPFA-I

Rodolfo Melia, IPPF

William Lester, EngenderHealth

Attachment: NPOKI Dec 15-16 meeting.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Attachment: NPOKI - Evolution.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

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