Maureen Wallbeoff

Maureen Wallbeoff

Maureen Wallbeoff brings more than 20 years of strategic and technical experience working inside nonprofit organizations and supporting nonprofit staff as a trusted advisor. Maureen was a founder of Firefly Partners, a creative digital agency providing services exclusively to nonprofits, in 2008. She spent the past decade as VP of Firefly, directing a team of twenty designers, developers and strategists. Her clients include Be The Match, Boston Medical Center, New Hampshire Public Radio, Living Beyond Breast Cancer, Greater Yellowstone Foundation, American kidney Fund and the National LGBT Task Force.

She has authored two popular guides to nonprofit engagement software. Maureen’s sweet spot is merging the 30K foot strategic view with practical, hands-on-keys recommendations. She is focused on helping nonprofit staff solve technology challenges, so they can use their marketing, fundraising, and CRM systems more effectively.

Here Comes the Future: New Tech Trends in Fundraising

For those of us who are still waiting for teleportation, the future can seem very far away. And for those of us who live and breathe fundraising, our work is often entrenched in old school practices and feels amazingly complicated at the same time...

3 Reasons Why Nonprofit Technology Projects Fail

Technology projects are their own special type of fun. They can be expensive, there’s usually a percentage of risk involved, there’s bound to be something that you don’t completely understand and, sometimes, they can make or break a nonprofit staffer’s career...