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Technology Strategy

How to Get Your Nonprofit Started with Pardot and Scale Your Fundraising Right Away

During these turbulent times, many of our nonprofit clients are re-prioritizing their investments, focusing on marketing automation to quickly ramp up fundraising and improve results. They’re getting up and running (and comfortable using) Pardot, a powerful marketing automation solution, within only a few weeks by working with the Heller Consulting team. Here is how it

Kaia Swift May 20, 2020

Technology Strategy

What’s Next for Nonprofits and Technology

“What’s our new normal?” and “What technology will we need?” This is what we are hearing after most nonprofits quickly implemented or improvised solutions to support fundraising, programs, remote working, volunteers, and more. Now, they’re assessing the longer-term impact to their organizations in each of these areas. Our clients have started more carefully evaluating the

Kaia Swift May 12, 2020

CRM

Microsoft’s Nonprofit Accelerator for Dynamics 365 Built On the Nonprofit Common Data Model and What it Means

For many of our clients, standardizing business processes and increasing efficiency across the organization are key priorities. It can be incredibly challenging to streamline operations when you have an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to manage your warehouse or distribution operations and a Customer Relationship Management (CRM), a digital fundraising solution, and a marketing automation

Kaia Swift April 27, 2020

Technology Strategy

Guest Post: Tips and Strategies for Running a Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser

Peer-to-peer fundraising has exploded in popularity the last several years, and an increasing number of nonprofits are working the method into their annual fundraising calendars. The fundraising style, which involves equipping individual participants to raise money on behalf of a nonprofit, can be a great way to raise money, boost visibility in your community, and

Kaia Swift April 27, 2020

CRM

5 Questions to Ask Before a Nonprofit Technology Change

We’d like to go ahead and save your organization some precious time. Even if you don’t see an urgent need for technology change today and are “doing just fine” meeting your goals with tools in place, you need to plan for when meeting your objectives will get more challenging. Planning will keep you from falling

Kaia Swift April 22, 2020

Technology Strategy

More Technology Resources for Nonprofits During the COVID-19 Crisis

As your nonprofit’s circumstances continue to evolve, we want to make sure you are aware of the latest offerings from the largest technology vendors to nonprofits. In an update to our post of March 20, what follows is a summary of what’s currently available from the “Big 3” vendors – Microsoft, Salesforce and Blackbaud. We’re

Kaia Swift April 15, 2020

Technology Strategy

Everyone Is a Digital Fundraiser Now

Dear Fundraiser, like it or not – you are now a digital fundraiser. Our world has changed rapidly in the span of only a couple of weeks, and just like you may never have planned on working from home for an extended amount of time, a successful fundraiser now has no option but to add

Kaia Swift April 9, 2020

Technology Strategy

Getting Started with Microsoft Teams Plus 6 Quick Tips

As many nonprofit leaders are quickly finding out, effectively utilizing online collaboration tools is vital to managing a remote workforce. With the sudden onslaught of workers now operating from home, Microsoft has begun offering a free 6-month Office 365 E1 Trial, including Microsoft Teams. At Heller Consulting, we use Microsoft Teams as our primary way

Kaia Swift March 31, 2020

Technology Strategy

Practical Technology Resources for Nonprofits in This Time of Need

We’re all looking for new and positive ways to move forward in this unprecedented time. As your nonprofit adjusts daily operations and strategies to continue delivering on your mission, we at Heller Consulting continue to watch the nonprofit technology space for solutions that can help. We’ve pulled together the following practical resources for nonprofit organizations

Kaia Swift March 20, 2020

CRM

Know Thy Donor: Where Digital Strategy and CRM Meet

The nonprofit CRM arena is rapidly changing. At the same time, fundraising and marketing strategies have also evolved considerably. Some of these changes are in response to larger environment shifts: economic indicators, charitable giving trends, donor demographics as younger generations become contributors, emergence of the new media channels (are you on TikTok yet?), and much

Kaia Swift March 10, 2020