A Practical Guide to Automating Your Nonprofit with Zapier and IFTTT

by Spencer Brooks | Oct 5, 2017 | Article

A Practical Guide to Automating Your Nonprofit with Zapier and IFTTT FollowFollowFollow 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...

The Nonprofit Website Redesign Is Dead

by Spencer Brooks | Sep 7, 2017 | Article

The Nonprofit Website Redesign Is Dead FollowFollowFollow 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...

How to End Your Nonprofit Data Nightmares Once and For All

by Spencer Brooks | Apr 21, 2017 | Article

How to End Your Nonprofit Data Nightmares Once and For All FollowFollowFollow 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...

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

by Spencer Brooks | Apr 7, 2017 | Article

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

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

by Spencer Brooks | Mar 16, 2017 | Article

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