A (Very) Last-Minute Plan for #GivingTuesday!
It’s enough to make any development manager crawl right back into bed. “I want you to run an end-of-year campaign,” my colleague James’ boss had just told him. “We also need to do something on Giving Tuesday.” You know… Giving Tuesday? The big nonprofit fundraising...
Got the RFP Blues? 3 Tips for Dramatic Improvement!
When I spoke with my client, Jackie, back in May, she was pumped. She had been planning a project and budget for a new website for what seemed like forever and she just got word it was approved! Whoop whoop! Together, we had just finished refining the organization’s...
Can’t Get No Software Satisfaction? Learn to Identify the Root Cause!
A funny thing happened a few weeks ago at the Bridge Conference in DC. Well, it would have been funny if the stakes weren’t so high. I was leading a group of nonprofit accidental techies through an exercise to rate their general satisfaction with the platforms they...
When Nonprofit Tech Projects Go Bad : 4 Tips for a Quick Recovery
You could cut the tension with a knife. A client’s tech project was running late. Really late. And a month after a show-stopper problem had been identified, there was still no clarity on when it would be resolved. An emergency huddle was called. I was asked to sit in....
