St. HOPE Extends NetSuite to HR, Payroll and Reaps the Rewards

St. HOPE Extends NetSuite to HR, Payroll and Reaps the Rewards

Posted by Barney Beal, Content Director

When Joey Harris first came on to take over payroll administration at St. HOPE Community Schools, she had a conversation with the man who ran it before her. “I sat down with him and asked his pain points,” she recalled during the SuiteConnect19 event in San Francisco in September. “He said ‘everything.’” Fortunately for Harris, the nonprofit organization had just brought in a new human resources and payroll system to solve those very pain points.

Founded by former NBA All-Star and Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson in 1989, St. HOPE began as a single, portable classroom that served as an afterschool program for Sacramento High School students. Today, it serves 1,800 students through five charter schools and manages residential properties as well as an Art and Cultural Center that includes a cafe, bookstore, barbershop, art gallery and 200-seat theater. In 2017, St. HOPE implemented NetSuite to manage its financials, but the initial deployment was not the endpoint for the nonprofit. It has since added NetSuite Planning and Budgeting and SuitePeople HR and Payroll. St. Hope is