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 […]
The League of Women Voters and the Impact of Technology Acquisitions
Raise HECK was proud to partner with the League of Women Voters (LWV, the League) on a technology assessment and software selection project. The League didn’t come to this project because of any of the usual reasons: they hadn’t outgrown their technology, it was not outdated, and they didn’t hate it. They arrived at this […]
3 Things We Learned While Road Tripping with the Unitarian Universalist Association
“Half the fun is getting there” is the perfect description of a good road trip. If you’re hitting the highways with the right people, road trips can be an incredible bonding experience. And FUN! An RFP to select new donor CRM software is a lot like a road trip. You have a technology roadmap to […]
Download Raise HECK’s Sample Tech and Data Governance Charter
Establishing a tech and data governance team is the first step toward integrating your data. But how do you get started with creating a tech and data governance team? Raise HECK has created a sample tech and data governance charter to help you get your group going. A charter is an important tool for any […]