A Practical Guide to Automating Your Nonprofit with Zapier and IFTTT

by Spencer Brooks | Oct 5, 2017 | Article

I recently shared an article about productivity. In particular, it was about all of the mistakes I made with my own productivity. I spent entirely too much of my life and my career being unproductive because I simply didn’t have the right tools and the right mindset...

The Nonprofit Website Redesign Is Dead

by Spencer Brooks | Sep 7, 2017 | Article

For too long, nonprofits have had to struggle through a painful and difficult process whenever they want to build a new website. The work usually drags on and it’s shrouded in layers of red tape, fear, and trepidation about how to get it just right. No one—no matter...

How to End Your Nonprofit Data Nightmares Once and For All

by Spencer Brooks | Apr 21, 2017 | Article

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re trolling through your organization’s database, trying to run a report that gives you a list of top donors or folks who haven’t given in a while or some other useful, obvious thing you’d want to pull out of your database....

Death by 1,000 Data Points: Why The Wrong Data Is Killing Your Nonprofit

by Spencer Brooks | Apr 7, 2017 | Article

Once upon a time, many nonprofits were clueless about data. Legacy systems and paper ledgers abound, the average nonprofit was about as data-savvy as your grandmother’s knitting class. But that’s all starting to change. Now, many shops are starting to use data to...

9 Cheap (or Free) Data Visualization Tools That Don’t Require IT Support

by Spencer Brooks | Mar 16, 2017 | Article

A huge challenge for nonprofits is often taking the next step from having data to using data. It’s often relatively simple to collect row upon row of records and store them somewhere. But, to what end? Data is hugely powerful and can help you improve or transform your...