Case Study: International African American Museum

We are proud to share with you a new case study telling the story of how we partnered with the International African American Museum and CCAH to help the museum choose a new membership system. Read the case study on EveryAction’s website. We know that trying to stretch software solutions to do things they weren’t […]

Remembering Rachel Meharry

We are grieving the untimely passing of Rachel Meharry. Rachel was a brilliant, warm-hearted, kind, funny, hardworking person who made a tremendous impact on us in the months that we were privileged to work together. Her loss is incalculable for everyone who knew her. Rachel was our client. She and her colleagues hired us to […]

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 […]

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 […]