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 […]

Your Bridge Over the Trough of Despair

We’ve told you that the Mid-Implementation Trough of Despair is a normal phase when you’re going through a software implementation. The catch-22 of implementing a new solution is that you don’t yet know what you don’t yet know. But once you know, there are things you probably would have chosen to set up differently. This […]

5 Takeaways from Start Here!

We had so much fun presenting Start Here! Building a Digital Fundraising Program: Selecting Tools & Strategies with our friends from Media Cause. If you missed it, you can view the recording or download the slides. These are Raise HECK’s top 5 takeaways: Digital enables immediacy. The videos captured and shared by people during the […]

5 Takeaways from 20 Tests in 30 Minutes

We had a blast on our webinar 20 Tests in 30 Minutes with Gaby Gollub from World Wildlife Fund. If you missed it, or if you want to relive the experience, you can view the recording and download the slides. These are Raise HECK’s top 5 takeaways: 1. When in doubt, test it out If […]