Category: Insight

How Volunteerism is Changing

Community Service has been a compulsory part of growing up in the United States for at least two generations. Kids track service hours for nearly every extracurricular activity, secular or spiritual. It should come...

Donor Analytics as a Best Practice

Analytics used to be a nice add-on if you have some money left in the budget. Development Teams justify analytics as a way to get a better read on their program and their donors....

How the Crowd Can Help Your Charity Deliver

With Crowdfunding on pace to raise more money this year than Venture Capital, there is an appetite among donors for looking to support projects across the globe. For small charities, or even the large...

Are You Leaving Donations in the Cloud?

A GoFundMe campaign for victims of the Orlando nightclub attack has become the fastest campaign to reach $1-million.  As charities look to for more revenue, perhaps it is time to consider crowdfunding as development...

Hobbies Reduce High School Dropout Rate

Today, April 18th, is World Amateur Radio Day. Across the world, radio amateurs celebrate a hobby that is more popular than ever. Today there are more than 3-million licensed operators worldwide. In the United...

Return on Impact: The Other ROI

Charities have an overhead problem. The problem isn’t that overhead is too high. The problem is your donors believe overhead is the best way to measure effectiveness. 4 Tips to Successfully Partnering with a...

How to Find Time for a Hobby

No matter how hard we try, there are just 24 hours in a day. And no matter how much harder we try, our to-do lists never get shorter. Fortunately, there is a unexpected hack...