As we head towards the end of 2021, take the time to reflect on your nonprofit’s efforts and hard work over the past year. You overcame a global pandemic, you pivoted your events to virtual, and you survived remote work—...Read More

A current trend you’re probably familiar with is the increased pace of digital transformation in organizations. It makes sense: In response to the global pandemic and the move toward online interactions, businesses — both for-profit and nonprofit — have recognized the ...Read More

We’re seeing a trend here at Heller Consulting: More nonprofits are starting to research and invest in change management for their organizations. They’re recognizing the many benefits of change management for changes of all types, including process and ...Read More

In a recent blog post, we described four distinctly different approaches to building out technology ecosystem to help nonprofit leaders navigate increasingly complex and varied choices in the marketplace. These different approaches are product, solution, platform, and ecosystem. Each approach ...Read More

In the past, a typical small or mid-size nonprofit might host one or two events a year, run an annual fundraising drive, and sporadically promote its membership program, if it had one at all.  But not anymore. The new norm ...Read More

Preparing data for your accounting department might not be the most exciting activity for your development team. But fundraising and accounting reconciliation is vitally important. Your nonprofit must track money received and where it’s going, and that means you ...Read More

What do you do when you think (or even know for sure) that it’s time for new software for your nonprofit? There was a time when it was a relatively easy process: You had technology for a specific functional ...Read More

One of my colleagues recently wrote an article about why we at Heller Consulting are excited about ascend technology for higher education advancement. It talks about the great potential of ascend to help advancement departments reach their goals and tackle ...Read More

If you’re using Raiser’s Edge and you want to incorporate more customer relationship management (CRM) approaches into your fundraising, but find that Raiser’s Edge doesn’t support them, you have some options: One is to stay on ...Read More

Virtual events have become more popular than ever due to COVID-19 and social distancing guidelines. Now, with the vaccine rollout and things returning to some level of normalcy, organizations are beginning to plan and host in-person events once again.  According ...Read More