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Social Impact Strategy
Faith and ChatGPT
"With a whole lot of faith and ChatGPT." One NPO director's answer to a year end question, and what it reveals: why the record of the work always loses to the work itself, what AI can and cannot fix, and four small habits that make the report assemble itself.
Lisa AttohOct 22, 2026
Platform Updates & News
Every Charity, on the Record
Before a funder reads your proposal, they look you up. The Alleviate Index gives every US public charity a free profile built from IRS public records: its compliance clock, its state registration rule, its peers. A record, not a rating, and yours to claim.
Robert OkineOct 17, 2026
Tech for Good / Digital Tools
Fine With Our Spreadsheets
"We are fine with our spreadsheets." Lisa Attoh on the three reasons capable NPOs resist digital systems, the competition for funding nobody mentions, and what onboarding should look like if you do make the move. Then a question for you.
Lisa AttohOct 6, 2026
Funding & Grants
The Capability Threshold
Two organizations, same donors, same kind of people. One raises money with ease, one cannot get past a first call. A chartered accountant who ran finance inside both kinds explains the capability threshold, why overhead lobbying is a drop in the ocean, and the provocation funders should hear.
Lisa AttohSep 29, 2026
Social Impact Strategy
Your Form 990 Is Your Storefront
Every American nonprofit has a storefront it did not design: the Form 990, public by law, read by funders and donors before the first call. What it shows, the one window most organizations leave dark, the calendar that decides it, and five ways to tend it before November 16.
Robert OkineSep 22, 2026
Funding & Grants
The Cash Crisis Is the Symptom
The award is signed and payroll still cannot be met. That is real, and it is usually the symptom. Underneath sits the SE Gap: the difference between what one unit of your service costs and what anyone pays for it. Why it stays invisible, why most organizations cannot diagnose it, and three moves.
Robert OkineSep 15, 2026Sector Intelligence
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