“The money we saved by outsourcing has enabled us to hire an assistant for fund development.”

                                                   -- Linda Doman, Executive Director, Vintage

When the Controller at Vintage, a senior care and adult day care center with locations in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood and Downtown, resigned to take another job, Linda Doman, Executive Director, “took a step back” to determine if she could better utilize her staff to focus exclusively on programming, fundraising and other responsibilities that affect the organization’s daily operations.  After much reflection, she concluded that outsourcing the day-to-day accounting functions made the most sense.

“Although losing a controller can pose short-term difficulties, I saw it as an opportunity to re-configure our organizational structure and give my staff and me the freedom to focus on Vintage’s mission 100 percent of the time.  Today, our Assistant Executive Director's management of our programs is enhanced by the reports and support from our accounting service.  The money we saved by outsourcing has enabled us to hire an assistant for fund development.”

The transition from managing an internal accounting function to being the client of a professional accounting services provider has reinvigorated Doman and her management team.

“Knowing that my staff and I can concentrate our energies on the things that drew us to the field of social services improves our overall effectiveness.”


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