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Your Nonprofit Website Traffic Is Up. Is That Actually Good News?

August 18, 2026
There is a number in the latest M+R Benchmarks report that caught my attention. In 2025, organic search accounted for 39% of all traffic to nonprofit websites. More than half of all nonprofit website...
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How to Position Your Brand for AI Search and Recommendations

August 14, 2026
Stop Asking How to Rank in AI For most of the internet’s history, businesses have been trying to answer some version of the same question: How do we get our website to rank higher?...
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Guide for Innovation Week 4: Synthesis and Roadmap

Welcome to Week 4! We’re so close and have come a long way, but we’re not done just yet. In fact, this week may...
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Guide for Innovation Week 3: Prototyping

Welcome to Week 3! We’re now over halfway through our guide to helping you turn great ideas into reality, using innovative technology and a...
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Guide for Innovation Week 2: Research + Empathy

Hey gang, welcome back. Hopefully by now you’re really powering with your team and starting to feel the momentum of the process. Last week...
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Week 1: Problem Immersion + Drawing Board

Welcome back! Let's cue things up for Problem Immersion. Now that we’re officially ready to get things going, this week we’ll build the foundation,...
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The 4-Week Guide for Digital Innovation

Welcome to our guide for digital innovation! First things first, we’re glad you’re here. We know that the process of building new products and...
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Problem Statements in Digital Innovation: The Importance of Asking the Right Question

CauseLabs leads a human-centered design training session at the Posner Poverty Hackathon. Problem Statements It all starts with a problem. We’ve found it’s amazingly...
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Two innovation hacks you can implement immediately

My friend’s forehead was creased, his consternation visible at the intersection of his caved-in eyebrows. “I have to get out of this building to...
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How a simple list of emergent themes can save you time and money in digital innovation work

At CauseLabs, we know a healthy start to digital innovation involves asking the right question and mapping out key pain points. There’s one more thing to do before...
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One discipline that can make or break a healthy start to your digital innovation project

"Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy...
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A Digital Innovator Starter Guide to New Innovation

Assuming you’re a digital innovator in an organization that needs it, you probably are desperate to see great ideas brought to life. You know...

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