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 […]
What the HECK? Happy Anniversary!
It’s the one-year anniversary of Raise HECK! Here’s what we’ve learned, what our favorite parts of the year were, and what we hope to accomplish in the future. Bloopers!
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 […]
What the HECK? RFPs
Sally and Charlotte talk about RFPs and how to make sure your nonprofit has a productive RFP process. Hint: it’s all about the rfPRE. 😉
What the HECK? Video Chats
It’s a Zoom world now, and we all just live in it. At Raise HECK, we talk to each other all the time about things that interest us, and we’ve decided to record some of our chats to share with all of you. We’re calling it What the HECK? Is this a vlog? A video […]
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 […]
Making Room for Change
This is a post in partnership with _MINDset direct _ Change is difficult in the most ideal of circumstances, but the circumstances we find ourselves in now during the covid-19 pandemic are far from ideal. Everyone is adjusting to the new normal in unprecedented ways. Our friends at MINDset direct provided this excellent article on […]
Raise HECK from Remote: COVID-19 Nonprofit Resources Roundup
At Raise HECK, we are a company of two people who live in different states. For the past 6 months (and even before that), we’ve been working from home and making the most of video conference tools, collaborative workspaces, and of course, the phone. Both of us (Charlotte and Sally) have children who are out […]