Gabriel, Author at InsideCharity.org

January 19, 2018

The GuideStar Blog Posts You Read Most in 2017

Earlier this month, we published a list of the GuideStar Newsletter articles subscribers read most last year. Today, we’re looking at the GuideStar Blog posts that caught your attention. Because the first 8 were also in the newsletter top 10, we’re extending this list to 15 posts.

January 18, 2018

How to Make Giving Easy for Your Donors

For years, consumers have been buying products online through the experience provided to them by big brands. This includes things like quick ordering, payment and delivery options. In economic theory, this is called a frictionless market, or a marketplace that doesn’t have transaction costs. Basically, it’s just a fancy way to say nonhuman online interactions. These days it’s all about convenience. And though frictionless markets have existed for a while, they haven’t quite reached the […]

January 18, 2018

Why We’re Excited to Launch Our Next Generation APIs Today

My first nonprofit job was in 1996 as a door-to-door canvasser to raise money for the Florida Public Interest Research Group. It was hard and felt like a crapshoot. But it taught me the value of perseverance and not taking no for an answer. I canvassed for six summers in my teens and twenties, all the while knowing there had to be a more efficient way to reach our potential supporters. We were a kick-ass […]

January 17, 2018

NPO Leaders: This Is So Worth 25 Minutes of Your Time

As nonprofit leaders, we have a responsibility to show the country what’s working and what’s at stake on the frontlines of America’s most vulnerable communities. But social-sector hard data is sparse at best, and real-time data is even rarer. The longer our sector remains an outlier in a data-driven world, the greater the opportunity cost—and the greater the risk that others will inappropriately use what numbers there are to justify budget cuts and other misguided […]