Strategic planning is often viewed by nonprofits as a necessary yet expensive and impractical exercise, encouraging at best only incremental rather than meaningful growth.
Several reasons contribute to its ineffectiveness as a true planning document.
Today, scaling a nonprofit has to include technology that captures and responds to audience preferences.
Once those constituents are reached, that same technology must then engage them to foster an impactful, trusted connection. That’s the surest way to prompt vital support like donations and volunteering.
When we talk about this type of growth—real, transformative, significant—we just have to mention HubSpot’s Marketing Hub in the same breath.
First of all, what is a “nonprofit offsite” and why have one?
Held outside the usual workplace, a nonprofit offsite (or, nonprofit retreat) is an event at which all members of a nonprofit come together to achieve specific objectives.
Duration is up to you, but it can run anywhere from a single day to a full workweek.
Most have little doubt that, to thrive and grow, nonprofits must embrace the right technology.
There’s simply no other way to engage today’s stakeholders on their own terms, be it with the right communications channels, browsers, payment options, mobile platforms, and the like.
We’ve helped hundreds of nonprofits like Partners in Health, Surfrider Foundation, and Greater Good Charities identify and implement the right technology for growth.
If you and your team are struggling to reach and engage donors because your technology is outdated, hard to use, nonintegrated, or even nonexistent, this article is for you.
I’ll share how you can determine the best customer relationship management system (CRM) for your nonprofit using our proven method for evaluating technology.
Although many nonprofits use HubSpot as their customer relationship management system (CRM), is it the right one for you?
We’ve helped hundreds of nonprofits like Partners in Health, Surfrider Foundation, and Greater Good Charities identify and implement the right technology to grow.
If you and your team are struggling to reach and engage donors because of outdated, hard-to-use technology, this article is for you.
I’ll share how you can determine if HubSpot is the right nonprofit CRM for your organization using our proven method to evaluate technology.
In a previous article, I discussed the need for growth-oriented nonprofits to incorporate technology into their business culture.
A digital transformation helps keep your organization relevant, because you’re able to engage stakeholders on their terms in a one-to-one, impactful way.
To do this effectively, you need an effective customer relationship management system (CRM) as part of your “tech stack” foundation—one that tracks and manages donor, volunteer, and beneficiary interactions and cultivates constituents with personalized journeys.
Enter HubSpot for Nonprofits.
Traditionally, for one reason or another, nonprofits have long suffered the tail end of technology.
For example, most fundraising goes toward programs or services. And many nonprofits are forced to air their low percentage of donations used for infrastructure as a badge of honor.
Moreover, some also believe that using more than rudimentary technology reduces a personal touch with their donor base.
However, if you have any desire to grow, none of this should be.
After we facilitated a one-day nonprofit board retreat, here’s what one attendee shared with us:
"We all enjoyed the retreat immensely. I’ve heard nothing but great things from our board."
In this article, I’ll share what made this board retreat both productive and enjoyable, including engaging icebreakers, a well-defined agenda, and interactive activities so you can have a successful offsite.
If yours is like most nonprofits, virtually all mission-related tasks are handled by your in-house team.
In effect, your organization is an internal agency, a service group much like an ad agency or a law firm. Except instead of billable hours, you deal in productive hours (see Chapter 13 in my free book).
Your team does its best to ensure those valuable hours are used wisely for, say, a specific donor campaign or a live fundraising event.