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Free resources for your organization.

Articles with what we learn in the field and one email a month. Use them with your team.

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Where does your organization stand today?

16 questions on 6 areas. See your map, what to do first, what to read for each priority, and take away a report for your board.

Take the self-assessment

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Where to start: Data

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The same areas as the self-assessment. If you already know your priority, start there.

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Data

Without a single record, every report is built by hand and nobody fully trusts the numbers.

Your data lives in 20 spreadsheets (and that's why nobody can find anything)

What we learned

Reconciling donations ate up our whole month

In-depth case

Before writing a line of code, we went to their workshop

What we learned

Team time

Every hour spent copying and coordinating is an hour that doesn't reach your programs.

The hours that never show up in any report

What we learned

Control of your technology

If the accounts aren't the organization's, a change of vendor or person can leave you without a system.

A volunteer built our platform, and now nobody can touch it

Practical guide

We have no budget for technology, and who maintains it afterward?

Questions we get

Adoption and AI

A tool nobody uses costs twice: what you pay for it and what still gets done by hand.

AI turned out expensive, and we don't know how to use it well

Practical guide

We pay for tools nobody uses

What we learned

AI on sensitive topics: can it make things up? Will it replace people?

Questions we get

Evidence for your funder

Funders renew those who show clear results on time.

Which number do we show our funder?

Practical guide

Before reading your project, the funder already checked three things

What we learned

Martina: practicing the hardest conversation before you have it

In-depth case

Funding and sustainability

Depending on one source puts your programs at risk when that source changes.

What do we do if our main funder leaves?

Questions we get

Field Notes

One email a month with what we learn in the field: one idea, one case and something to do that week.