What Nonprofits Get Wrong About Tech — and How to Fix It (Especially When You’re Small and Stretched) Most nonprofits think they have a technology problem. They don’t. They have a decision problem. I’ve spent more than three decades in this sector. I started in organizations that tracked donors on 3×5 cards — literal boxes […]

Here is the number that should be on every technology vendor’s whiteboard: $1.5 trillion. That is the nonprofit sector’s annual contribution to the U.S. economy — roughly 5.3 percent of GDP. The sector employs nearly one in ten American workers. It is the third largest sector in the country. It serves millions of people, anchors […]

The nonprofit sector has a comfort problem. Certain fundraising practices have been wrapped in so much tradition, emotion, and institutional inertia that questioning them has become professionally dangerous. The sector calls this wisdom. Most of it is scar tissue — and some of it is actively costing you money. Tradition is not a strategy. It […]