Perfection? How about Progress Instead?
Let’s agree on one thing: perfection isn’t possible. Something we heard early in our careers is “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” This phrase can spark some strong opinions, with some thinking it gives people an excuse to phone in their work. That’s not the intent of the phrase. When doing […]
Partner Post: Build from Within to Maximize Donations: with S&R Consulting and Raise HECK
Things aren’t predictable right now especially in the nonprofit world. We’ve heard from many of you that donations are down, grants are not being renewed, and your budgets are uncertain. And, extremely regrettably, we know some of you have been forced to lay off staff. But, we are not writing this to focus on the […]
Good Vibes Lead to Great Outcomes
Choosing a consultant requires a lot of things to be right: background, industry knowledge, technical fluency, and more. It’s also important to enjoy working with your consultant. When we complete a project, we ask our clients why they chose to work with us. Was it our experience? Our technical chops? Something else? Here’s a sampling […]
June Update: New Workshop, New Service
We have two updates to share with you. First, we’re doing a workshop with Elyse Wallnutt, and second, we have a new service we’re offering to nonprofits. Workshop Alert Raise HECK and Agility Lab will be hosting a workshop later this summer to help you get ready to start moving your acquisition program away from […]
Back to Basics
There are several best practices that “everybody knows” when it comes to digital marketing and fundraising. Many of them are simple and don’t require complicated setup or configuration. Great, right? Yes, in theory. But many times in the course of our work, we’ve been surprised to learn that many nonprofits don’t have those best practices […]
Nonprofits, We’re All In This Together
Things aren’t predictable right now for nonprofits. That’s probably too nice of a way of saying it. There’s a spectrum of fear, uncertainty, and doubt that pervades our space. For some nonprofits, it’s the threat of future action. For others, they are already firmly in the crosshairs of targeted aggressive moves from the administration. Budgets […]
Webinar: Thinking Beyond the Cookie Jar
Webinar Invitation There ain’t no party like a third party–until the party’s over! Are you prepared for the decline of third-party cookie-based acquisition? Thinking Beyond the Cookie JarYour Mission Deserves Better Than Crumbs May 21, 2025 1:00pm ET Register here Join Agility Lab Consulting and Raise HECK to learn what the heck the status is […]
The News Literacy Project: What happens when your data needs outgrow your CRM?
We Love Our Clients We always love it when a client we’ve worked with in the past comes back to us with another project. It’s one of the highest compliments we can receive as we strive to be a trusted partner to nonprofits with amazing missions. The News Literacy Project’s mission to advance the development […]
Uncertain Times: Save Money and Raise More Without a Tech Change
2025 So Far Real talk, everyone: so far 2025 has brought with it a lot of chaos. A nicer way to say it would be “unpredictability,” although the chaos seems to be intentional. The government has become an agent of this chaos, slashing jobs, canceling funding, and clawing back grants in a volatile way. This […]
Private Equity in Nonprofit Software
This article from the New York Times Inside the Democratic Disaster That Didn’t Happen in November by Shane Goldmacher was an interesting and also harrowing read. It felt like a chickens-coming-home-to-roost moment, having read Micah L. Silfry’s blog post Living With VANxiety: The Present and Future of Progressive Movement Tech last year. Both articles are […]