NTC 2026 Recap Part 3: How to Lead Through Tech Change
Raise HECK organized a session at 26NTC, How to Lead Through Tech Change, and we were so fortunate to have three of our clients agree to join us. The speakers were: Lea Wehrle-Garsh, International Mountain Bicycling Association Freeda Brook, The News Literacy Project Mallory Gay, USA for UNHCR Each panelist described the tech change project […]
NTC 2026 Recap Part 2: What I Learned at Sessions and Keynotes
Here’s what I learned at the sessions and keynotes during 26NTC. I need to include a massive disclaimer that there were many more sessions than any one person could attend, and that I wasn’t able to hear every keynote in its entirety. Tuesday’s keynote from Anil Dash I was intrigued by Anil Dash’s exploration of […]
NTC 2026 Recap Part 1: Reflections on NTC and the Value of Community
“I don’t love technology. I love people.” –Amy Sample Ward, CEO of NTEN NTEN is an organization with a particular point of view. Their mission, values, theory of change, and commitment to equity, accessibility, and compassion are front and center. As much as the organization is about nonprofit technology, NTEN’s foundation is also about respecting people’s […]
What Star Trek Can Teach Nonprofits About Using AI
It seems like AI is everywhere these days. Half the posts I read on LinkedIn are touting amazing things people are doing with AI to power their missions and make their jobs easier. The other half are cautioning people about ethical, privacy, and environmental consequences of using AI. I believe it’s imperative that we as […]
Raise HECK Authors Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmark Report 2022
Now available for download, it’s the Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmark Report 2022, authored by Raise HECK in partnership with Blackbaud. Get your copy today. Want us to walk you through the top takeaways? No problem. Sign up for our webinar December 13 at 2:00pm Eastern time.
5 Reflections from #23NTC
Last week I traveled to Denver to attend the 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference, known around the internet as #23NTC. It was the first in-person multi-day conference for which I traveled in years. In fact, since Charlotte and I started Raise HECK in late 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, it’s the first […]
If It Were Up To Me
Every time I hear about another mass shooting in the U.S., I think about Cheryl Wheeler’s song “If It Were Up To Me.” Let’s take a moment to consider the first part of that sentence: “Every time I hear about another mass shooting in the U.S.” That is a deeply messed up premise with which […]
Six Ways to Sunday
Here’s a story of an organization that jumped into a digital transformation without a people plan, and paid for it. Once upon a time, there was a nonprofit. They used some online software for their action alerts. None of the staff really liked it, but they knew how to use it. They wished it were […]