Why the commercial security frameworks we've inherited are necessary, useful, and not enough — and what they keep missing about the work we actually do. On Monday we opened this series by highlighting that donors are not customers in the typical
How nonprofit tech became the operational backbone of philanthropy in a generation — and the obligation we think comes with that. If you'd told the people running the country's mid-size nonprofits in 2005 that, twenty years later, their organizations would manage
Why nonprofit tech buyers now expect a SOC 2 report by default — and why it takes far longer to issue a real one than your compliance automation tool would like you to believe. Two things are true about SOC 2
The Chain of Custody Donors Don’t See Trace a single $25 monthly gift through the sector’s plumbing. Almost every link in the chain is a vendor — and most of them are us. Picture a recurring donor. She’s 62, gives $25
A Charitable Dollar Is Not the Same as Any Other Dollar Why the data we hold for the nonprofit sector requires a different standard of care — and why that argument starts with us, the vendors. Most of us in nonprofit
