November 2010
1 post
Re-designing GiveLoop: What Worked, What Failed,...
So it has been just about 6 months since the launch of GiveLoop, and we are starting to reflect upon three questions: What worked? What failed? What next?
What worked?
We set out to help organizations raise more money by making the donation process more transparent and engaging, and did just that. We built a product that made the donation process more transparent and engaging, and have received...
August 2010
1 post
Should You Treat Your Donors Like Your Customers?
Buying a product and making a donation are two very different things. When I am buying a product, I am told how much it costs and I can shop around for the best price. When I am making a donation, it is usually for an arbitrary amount, perhaps guided by a recommended donation amount or a very large fundraising goal. Additionally, when I’m buying a product, I can read customer reviews to...
July 2010
2 posts
How To Scale Accountability
Here at GiveLoop, we’ve been struggling with the question of accountablity. Since we allow donors to direct where they would like their money to go, we want to ensure that the organizations receiving the donations are held accountable to how they claim they will be using the donations.
DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that helps schools raise money for specific projects, handles...
How Can We Be A More Transparent Company?
Right now we are a very early start-up with very modest revenue, but even now, how can we “practice what we preach” and be more transparent?
What is Transparency?
To be honest, I’m not exactly sure what “being transparent” actually means and by no means am I an expert in this field. I think a lot of my ideas on this subject stems from the open-source/open-content...
May 2010
1 post
Why Another Company Blog?
Yes, admittedly this is another company blog. But before you stop reading, let me throw out some bullet points to help you decide if this blog is for you.
The goals of this blog are:
To be a place for us (GiveLoop members, our readers, and colleagues) to share our thoughts and explorations in the concepts of “transparency”, “openness”, and “accountability” as...