Transplant Trauma
Two years ago I bought a hydrangea at a nursery. It had bountiful pink, blue and purple blossoms that I couldn’t wait to see from my window every morning. I took it home and planted it in the front yard under a shady tree. After a season in that location where it received only hot […]
Change Management Action Plan
Sample Data Governance Charter
Get Raise HECK’s Sample Data Governance Charter Data governance is important! The best way to implement data governance at your organization is by creating a Data Governance Team. Great! How do you do that? The place to start is by developing a charter–a description of what the group does and how it operates. Get Raise […]
The Nonprofit CRM Buyer’s Guide
There are so many great CRMs out there that can support your organization’s mission. How on earth do you get started choosing one of them? Raise HECK was thrilled to partner with our pal Maureen Wallbeoff to author The Nonprofit CRM Buyer’s Guide to help lead you through this process. Maureen describes how you know […]
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 […]
I’m Sick Of Waking Up To News About Gun Violence In This Country
In a sign that America is indeed getting back to normal, we had two mass shooting incidents in the span of a week. An assault weapon was used to kill 10 people in Boulder and in Georgia, the shooter bought a gun and used it the same day to murder 8 people. Note – you […]
Equal Access to Sports for Transgender Young People
One of President Biden’s Day One executive orders was titled “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” Among the many things this order does is to guarantee equal access to young people to participate in the sport or team of their gender identity, and prevents them being denied access […]
Defend our Democracy
On January 6, 2021 there was an attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol. On January 13, 2021 the House of Representatives impeached the now-former President for inciting the insurrection. On February 13, 2021 a majority of the Senate voted 57-43 to convict the disgraced former President, although the vote fell short of the needed 2/3 […]
Talking Technology Selection With Pursuant
We joined Taylor and Leah at Pursuant on the Pursuant Go Beyond Podcast to talk technology selection. You can listen to the podcast here. If you’ve ever had to write a request for proposal for a new fundraising tech stack, you know that evaluating technology for your nonprofit can be a long, drawn out, hand-wringing […]
I Excel at Spreadsheets
If you hang around the nonprofit digital world long enough, chances are you’ll eventually need to clean up some data. And if you’re doing data hygiene tasks, then you’ll probably use a spreadsheet program like Excel or Google Sheets to organize and clean your data. Here are some of our favorite quick tricks to make […]