Author: Hunter Williams

About Hunter Williams: As Little Green Light’s VP of Product Marketing, Hunter is motivated to help fundraisers and development teams achieve their goals. Hunter applies two decades of experience at growing business initiatives at the Discovery Channel and at Amazon.com to his work at Little Green Light. In addition to his work in marketing, Hunter collaborates with Little Green Light’s tech team to deliver software that is robust and user friendly.

Posts by Hunter Williams

What’s the best way to organize your campaigns, funds, appeals, and events?

Posted on February 25, 2017 (March 28, 2022)

What’s the best way to organize your campaigns, funds, appeals, and events in Little Green Light? This is a common question, and we frequently see data stored in a way that makes answering it more confusing than helpful. We recently updated our infographics and have recorded some training webinars to clarify this often complicated […]

Introducing the expanded LGL Consultant Network

Posted on April 13, 2016 (March 28, 2022)

Since early 2015, independent consultants have been helping new LGL customers with data migration projects. We’ve recently expanded this group of consultants, now known as the LGL Consultant Network.* The Network has expanded in 2 exciting ways: 1. It isn’t just for data migrations anymore! LGL consultants are now also able to help you with: […]

Mailings, Acknowledgments, Stripe integration, and other exciting updates to LGL

Posted on February 14, 2016 (March 28, 2022)

On Sunday, February 14, we released some improvements to LGL Mailings and Acknowledgments, launched Stripe as an integrated payment provider, and added some other great updates for LGL: Highlights include: Mailings: A four-step process that guides you all the way through a mailing A more powerful and intuitive mailing list feature The ability to see […]

Are you participating in Give Local America?

Posted on February 4, 2016 (March 28, 2022)

May 3, 2016 marks a major day of fundraising across the U.S., kind of like a #GivingTuesday in the Spring. What started as a few local campaigns has blossomed into an enormous collection of fundraising efforts under the banner Give Local America! Many local foundations offer matching funds or prize money to nonprofits based on donations […]

How do your fundraising efforts measure up?

Posted on January 4, 2016 (March 28, 2022)

The just-published Individual Donor Benchmark Report from Third Space Studio surveyed 87 organizations with budgets under $2 million per year. We helped sponsor the study and invited Little Green Light customers to participate. Here are the top two findings, as quoted from the report: 1) The single most important thing you can do to strengthen your individual […]

Pertinent, personal, and prompt: the keys to acknowledging gifts

Posted on December 4, 2015 (March 28, 2022)

6 Steps to a Successful Appeal : Part five of a six-part series Good practices in gift acknowledgment and accounting have a beneficial effect on your donor relationships. To ensure that donors understand the value and your appreciation of their gift to your organization, it’s important to have a gift acknowledgment process in place that’s […]

Survey says…

Posted on March 13, 2015 (March 28, 2022)

A big thank you to all our customers who participated in our survey. Your insights help us gauge how we’re doing and what we should do better. Some highlights: 96% say LGL’s customer service is ‘Great’ 86% say LGL provides a good return on investment 80% say LGL has made their organization more efficient at […]

How to use data to fundraise more efficiently

Posted on January 4, 2015 (March 28, 2022)

I had the pleasure of serving on a panel at the Northwest Development Officers Association annual winter conference in Seattle, WA. The panel discussion, titled Data Drives All, was about data and how nonprofits can use data effectively and how they can avoid some of the pitfalls that come from the torrent of data coming at […]

Do you survey your donors?

Posted on January 4, 2015 (March 28, 2022)

I recently donated to the International Rescue Committee, and today I received an envelope with the phrase on the outside that said: “Donor Preferences Survey Enclosed.” What a great way to follow up with a new donor. What got me to open the letter was the “Donor Preferences Survey” note on the outside of the […]

Great examples of LGL Forms in action

Posted on November 13, 2014 (March 28, 2022)

Here’s a few great examples of forms that were built by our customers using Little Green Light’s online forms feature. For a more complete review of the feature and to see even more examples, download our free ebook: Using Online Forms to Simplify your Work. Event registration forms The Martinez Foundation registration page […]

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