by JK Stewart | Jun 1, 2026 | Strategy
The Dashboard Looks Amazing. The Organization Is Quietly Struggling. A nonprofit can have beautiful email open rates, a growing Instagram account, polished fundraising graphics, and monthly donor charts that make everyone in the board meeting nod approvingly while the...
by JK Stewart | May 18, 2026 | Strategy
Data Is Incredibly Useful. It Is Also Incredibly Dangerous. Modern fundraising runs on data. Open rates. Conversion rates. Retention percentages. Average gift values. Donor lifetime value. Recurring revenue forecasts. Heat maps. Attribution models. None of this is...
by JK Stewart | May 11, 2026 | Strategy
Efficiency Is Usually Treated Like An Automatic Good In nonprofit circles, efficiency carries a strange kind of moral authority. Lower costs? Good. Faster systems? Good. Leaner operations? Also good. Nobody wants to sound wasteful. Nobody wants to defend unnecessary...
by JK Stewart | May 4, 2026 | Strategy
They Feel Important. They Just Don’t Land The Way You Think. Annual reports carry a kind of institutional weight. They look polished. They summarize impact. They often take months to produce, involve multiple stakeholders, and end up feeling like a flagship asset....
by JK Stewart | Apr 29, 2026 | Strategy
It Starts With Reasonable Decisions No team sets out to create a poor donor experience. What actually happens is more subtle. A launch deadline gets tight, so a form goes live with a few rough edges. A campaign performs well, so no one wants to touch the flow that...
