5 Habits to Keep Your Data Clean Databases can be a behemoth to manage, and inconsistent data and duplicates can make this powerful tool into an even more powerful monster. To tackle any beast, one needs training and a good plan. Here are five ways you can work to tame your “databeast” and assure that […]
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Each year, our clients join us for our End-of-Year Fundraising Workshop series where we walk through everything from audience segmentation and campaign set up to tracking your progress in the WaterGrass database. During this presentation we’ll hear from three of our clients and learn about how they found success in 2023. We’d love to hear from you too during our Q&A. […]
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Artwork designed by freepik.com Many conservation organizations mobilize volunteers for events, but find few of those volunteers become long-time supporters. This seems counterintuitive – these are people who make the effort to show up, learn about the organization, and probably share a commitment to its mission. But on average fewer than half volunteer again (according […]
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Setting Up and Testing SPF and DKIM Authentication for Automated Email Systems For years … decades, actually … hackers have been able to “spoof” email addresses and send out spam as if it came from other peoples’ email accounts. Internet service providers have finally settled on authentication standards to ensure that emails actually originate from […]
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Surprise! There’s no easy time, especially if your organization uses your system regularly. Imagine updating the electrical in your home while you’re still living there…changing your organization’s database, or CRM, can be similarly inconvenient and even stressful. In fact, it would be surprising if such a big change didn’t have an effect on day-to-day operations. […]
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UPDATE: As of 12/8/2022 Click and Pledge has patched its WordPress plugin to avoid the problem. Visitors using Chrome 108 on Click and Pledge donation pages will see the picklists, which look slightly different – they’re truncated, and visitors will have to scroll to the desired value. But they work. Google is also rolling out […]
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At WaterGrass, we try to stay close to our client organizations, especially at the end of the year, when they bring in a disproportionate amount of support from their communities. We enjoy learning with them what works and what doesn’t, and sharing their lessons with others. For the past five years, Carl has run an […]
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COVID served as a sort of stress test for many volunteer programs. Could they survive without in-person activities? Could you adapt them to the new circumstances? Most important – Were there changes you made that you’re adopting permanently? At WaterGrass we convened a discussion on the topic. (WaterGrass is an organizational database that among other […]
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Many conservation organizations shy away from advocating on issues because they work closely with local governments or state agencies and don’t want to antagonize them. But advocacy can also lead to growth. For example, over the last 20 years Organizations in the Waterkeepers Alliance – which advocate and also take legal action against polluters – […]
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Baird Straughan, 7 Feb 2022 We started WaterGrass to help organizations manage growing volunteer programs with limited staff, and the Milwaukee Riverkeeper has achieved that in spades. Along the way, they illustrate some basic principles of large-scale volunteer programs, and illuminate a new challenge for us. In our webinar How One Organizer Led 218 Events […]
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