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Technology Strategy

How to Use Social Media Data to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Interactions with Constituents

You likely know the value of collecting data about your donors and other constituents. It helps you better understand your supporters and program recipients so you can improve your marketing, fundraising, and program delivery. But are you gathering and using social media data? If not, it might be time to start. According to Pew Research

Kaia Swift April 1, 2022

Technology Strategy

Volunteer Management Options Are Expanding. Here’s what Microsoft is Offering.

Managing your nonprofit’s volunteer program can get complex. You have to communicate with volunteers and track who they are, what volunteer jobs and shifts they’re filling, what hours they work, and more. Having the right volunteer management software is critically important for a successful program. The great news is that your options for volunteer management

Kaia Swift March 23, 2022

Technology Strategy

Help to Secure Your Organization’s Data with Microsoft’s Security Program for Nonprofits

Are you concerned about data security for your nonprofit organization? If so, you aren’t alone. Here at Heller Consulting, we’re hearing from many of our clients that donor and constituent data security is their number one priority this year. The concern is well founded. Microsoft’s 2021 Digital Defense Report confirms that cybercrime has grown in

Kaia Swift February 16, 2022

CRM

The Transformational Power of Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit

Microsoft’s recent launch of Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit takes the Fundraising and Engagement solution and makes it a full-service nonprofit toolset that includes volunteer management, engagement with all types of supporters, and program management tools that will allow you to see the direct impact of fundraising dollars on your mission objectives. It showcases Microsoft’s commitment

Kaia Swift November 2, 2021

Microsoft

Moving from Raiser’s Edge to Microsoft for Your Fundraising Needs: How Your Nonprofit Can Get Started

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 Raiser’s Edge — you’ll just need to invest more in integration between Raiser’s Edge and other systems. You can

Kaia Swift July 14, 2021

CRM

4 Approaches to Building a Nonprofit Technology Stack

Twenty-five years ago, when Keith Heller first launched Heller Consulting (back when all fundraising systems were on DOS!), nonprofits selected a technology and a provider that came closest to meeting their functional and budgetary requirements. Today’s requirements and solutions in the market are vastly more complex and varied. The purpose of this article is to

Kaia Swift June 16, 2021

Team Heller

Sharing Our Partners’ Work Around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Most of the articles on this blog are about nonprofit technology. But from time to time, we find it important to share what goes on behind the scenes at Heller Consulting. Last year, we wrote about our work around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at Team Heller. Today, we continue our efforts to cultivate an

Kaia Swift May 25, 2021

CRM

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Price Considerations for Nonprofits

By now, you’ve probably heard about the technology offerings for nonprofits that have been coming from Microsoft. In case you haven’t, we’ve written about the growing potential of Microsoft solutions for nonprofits, and we continued to keep tabs on the latest offerings from Microsoft for nonprofits. You might be like many nonprofit professionals who have

Kaia Swift May 21, 2021

Microsoft

What to Know if Your Nonprofit is Considering a Move from Raiser’s Edge

If your nonprofit has been using Raiser’s Edge for a long time to support fundraising activities, you might be wondering if it’s time to move to another solution. You might find that it doesn’t support some of the newer fundraising activities you’re adding, such as online fundraising and events. Or it doesn’t easily integrate data

Kaia Swift May 7, 2021

CRM

9 Things to Consider if Your Nonprofit is Thinking About a Move to Microsoft or Salesforce CRM

If you’re thinking about moving to a new constituent relationship management (CRM) system, you aren’t alone. Every day, nonprofits consider a change for a variety of reasons: Maybe their current CRM system is going away. Or their CRM vendor is pushing them to upgrade to a new version of the system. Or their old CRM

Kaia Swift May 6, 2021