Wow. It's been two and half years since I first wrote a post titled "The CSR SaaS Industry is Growing Up". In that post, I focused on events such as capital infusion and business consolidation that demonstrate maturity in a niche software sector. I'm long overdue for a CSR software update. A lot has been [...]
I must admit, I had not heard the term "fund-catching" until we were talking with a friend at a leading nonprofit about their challenges working with fundraising data from CSR and other online giving platforms. She said: When it comes to CSR and workplace giving, we feel like we are no longer fundraising, just fund-catching. [...]
"Workplace giving innovation" is a three-word phrase that we do not use often enough in our industry. That is changing. News of workplace giving innovation keeps popping up this summer. So rather than wait for an end-of-year "trends wrap up" blog post, I thought I should share the good news now. With fall just around [...]
Charitable giving, CSR and small business have been disconnected for too long. And that means that 90 million working Americans lack access to charitable giving, volunteering and other programs created to promote Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It is time to fix this. As an industry, we have the knowledge, experience and technology to make this [...]
CSR SaaS just took another big leap forward as an industry. I hope you took note, because a lot is happening within CSR that is going to impact all of us for the next ten years. The industry continues to grow up. And the story keeps getting better. CSR SaaS has been a niche industry [...]
Two weeks ago, Gillette launched a new advertising campaign and in the process made its brand the centerpiece of controversy. Maybe that was the intended consequence - to generate conversation about a brand that has been struggling to regain lost marketshare. But if that is the goal, does Gillette really want to create controversy from [...]
Soon blogs across all industries will be awash with predictions of trends for 2019. As I reflected on one year coming to a close and prepare for the new, I decided not to predict a trend. Predictions for a new year, after all, are totally dependent on market forces to sort out over the next [...]
If I told you that workplace giving is stuck in winter with no spring in sight, would you agree or disagree? Do you sometimes wonder what is going on in our industry? Are we reaching more donors, more volunteers? Is workplace giving dead or alive? Adding to the uncertainty, there has been a fair amount [...]
We set out to answer a simple question: What are the SDG reporting capabilities of current CSR software? Then we learned that the "simple question" wasn't so simple. Join us in Part 2 of this two-part series as we explore examples of SDG reporting hard at work. In Part 1, we addressed the reality that Corporate [...]
In 2015, the United Nations published a collection of 17 "sustainable development goals", or SDGs. The goal is simple enough: transform for the better the world in which we live. And ever since, the list of SDG reporting questions has grown: How should companies track, organize and communicate SDG metrics? Should we be reporting statistics [...]
