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Technology Strategy

Transitioning to Hybrid Events: 4 Points to Remember

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 to The Giving Experience Study recently released by our team at OneCause, 71% of today’s

Kaia Swift July 7, 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

Technology Strategy

Getting Started With a Text-to-Give Campaign

As a nonprofit professional, you’re on the cutting edge of what new giving strategies are emerging. Your organization is constantly going through transformations to update your best practices as technology continues to advance. Enter, text-to-give campaigns. Text-to-give is a digital fundraising method that’s been emerging in popularity over the last few years. During these campaigns,

Kaia Swift June 7, 2021

Technology Strategy

How to Implement Automated Gift Matching at a Nonprofit

This is a guest blog post from Double the Donation. Your nonprofit has a mission to serve its constituents and do good in your community. But neither of those outcomes are possible without funding. That’s why it’s essential that your team uses all of the resources available to bring in more revenue. However, exhausting every

Kaia Swift May 27, 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

Technology Strategy

5 Classy Integrations to Help Nonprofits Improve Operations

Relatively new to the nonprofit sector or not, you’ve likely heard of Classy, a leading social enterprise that creates online fundraising tools for nonprofits. The innovators behind this platform seek to modernize the giving experience and accelerate social impact around the world. As part of this initiative, they’ve actively built out their platform’s functionality by

Kaia Swift May 4, 2021

Technology Strategy

How to Know if It’s Time for Your Nonprofit to Leave Luminate Online

You might have heard by now that that Blackbaud will be ending support for and shutting down Luminate CRM in 2022. Whether your nonprofit uses Luminate CRM or not, if you’re using the companion product Luminate Online, this news might have sparked a question in your mind: Is it time to consider moving away from

Kaia Swift April 6, 2021

Microsoft

Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit: The Latest Offering from Microsoft

The pace of new technology from Microsoft for the nonprofit sector seems to be accelerating. The latest offering — announced last month — is Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit. In our continued efforts to keep you in-the-know about Microsoft technology for nonprofits, here’s a summary of Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit and what it means for the

Kaia Swift March 17, 2021

Microsoft

The Story of Microsoft’s Commitment to the Nonprofit Sector

If you’ve read this blog for a while, you probably know that Team Heller has been closely following Microsoft’s movements in the nonprofit sector. We’ve watched Microsoft go from initial investments in the sector to the launch of specific nonprofit solutions. And, we’ve even been involved along the way. We’ve been excited about the growing

Kaia Swift March 11, 2021

CRM

Beyond Fundraising: The Many Ways Nonprofits are Using Salesforce

If you’ve worked in the nonprofit sector for very long, you likely know about Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP). It’s a customer relationship management (CRM) solution that many nonprofits use to build donor relationships, accelerate major giving, and connect multiple giving channels on a single fundraising platform. But you might not know that Salesforce is

Kaia Swift February 22, 2021

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CRM

What Does Digital Transformation Look Like Today for Nonprofits?

Digital transformation for nonprofits is not a new concept but has become an even more urgent reality since the fallout of COVID-19. Nonprofits need to have a solid technical foundation in order to carry on with their important work. The organizations that had the foresight to implement nimble tools were able to quickly adapt to

Kaia Swift February 17, 2021