The constant struggle of passing the spreadsheets to different departments, then receiving in return Word documents and backwards spreadsheets caused significant delays in their budgeting process, and added an extra unnecessary workload (and headaches) to finance’s plate. Second Harvest found themselves working on their budget multiple ways in order to be sure that they had no miscalculations. Sally Petersen, Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties’ CFO, would juggle 8-10 spreadsheets that had to roll-up properly without errors or inaccurate formulas. Prior to implementing our non-profit budgeting solution – PowerPlan – Second Harvest was budgeting with Excel spreadsheets. – Eliminated the need for spreadsheets and tedious entering and allowed increased accuracy – Allow end users to edit or view depending on their security setting – Viewing departments and sub department budgets accurately – Quick acknowledgement of variance in numbers – Simple navigation to get everyone in the organization involved – More delegation, saving time for more non-administrative and higher priority duties PowerPlan, Questica’s non-profit budgeting solution, helped the Food Bank move away from a tedious spreadsheet process to a more efficient centralized solution.

Second Harvest wanted to move from an Excel-based solution to a software solution that would improve accuracy for their reporting and forecasting functionalities. Non-profit food bank organization servingġ65 with an additional 10 temporary staff

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