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You’ve done it. You’ve managed to cut through the nonprofit clutter and catch the attention and interest of a potential donor. Eager (or at least willing) to open their wallet and donate, they’ve landed on your website’s home page. Now that they’re here, the question is: can your website close the deal? If your answer is an emphatic yes, good for you! You’re part of a growing contingent of nonprofit organizations who have come to the realization that putting time, energy and money into an effective and attractive website is an investment in not only converting donors, but in achieving a [...]

Building With, Not For, Your Communities At Timshel, we know that to design great products, we have to understand what our stakeholders value. This is true whether we’re designing an engagement platform to help nonprofits and advocacy groups connect with their supporters, or a tool that helps rural health workers with little to no experience with technology collect and disseminate patient information. So how do we understand what our stakeholders value? That’s where human-centered design (HCD) comes in. To make sure we truly understand the problem that we’re trying to solve, we have to understand it from the standpoint of the [...]

The cost of hiring and firing any employee is astronomical when counting the expense of time spent, and the psychology of a failed choice.  Between the cost of onboarding, training, coaching, staff time, wasted salary, and administrative costs, HR professionals project that an organization can easily spend thousands of dollars on a hire that has gone wrong. Most so called bad hires should not have happened in the first place. Given that the cost of a hire that’s gone wrong—generally estimated to be anywhere between $4,000-$12,000—it’s hard to understand why you wouldn’t use a professional recruiter. Eight Reasons Why You Should Hire [...]