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Insights

We get to work with a lot of nonprofits and there are no shortage of great challenges that we tackle in the process. So we've created this space to share some of the neat things we've learned along the way that we thought you might find interesting (and dare we say useful) too.

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The Promise of Cloud Development Environments for Boosting Developer Satisfaction, Code Quality and Efficiency

A developer can now create a branch and launch a workspace from a Jira ticket. Within minutes they’re able to get to work. A cloud-based development environment also means they can be actively working on multiple tickets in multiple workspaces with unique database states, a workflow that is tedious on a local development environment.
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How do we migrate the content when the content format and rules are changing? Legacy Mode!

But these pages were published in the old site, with the old design, with the old content strategy. Any given page may have content design patterns that aren’t supported in the new site, often implemented by pasting HTML right into the body field. What to do about this?
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A harrowing tale of a spambot attack: How to use Cloudflare to defend your website against bad bots

It started with an S-O-S from Operation Smile. Their contact form was getting slammed by a spambot, and they had a mess on their hands. We had to shake this bot ASAP!
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20% Lift in Donor Conversions? Yep!

Capelilc's Conversion Engine lifted donor conversions by a stunning 20%!
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Ohio Legal Help’s website helps balance the scales for low income Ohioans

Ohio Legal Help was launched with the purpose of providing accessible legal help for low income Ohioans.
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How to make the perfect bug report

A good bug report gets the problem solved faster.
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Case Study: National Education Association (EC)

The National Education Association is one of the largest labor unions in the United States, serving education professionals across the country for the past 163 years.
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Four Reasons 2020 was a Banner Year for Symbolic Gift Fundraising

2020 was not a great year for many things. But it was in fact a banner year for many of the organizations fundraising with symbolic gifts using our platform.
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Case Study: Boston College City Connects

Helping students overcome out-of-school barriers that prevent their success.