Grant Cycles Are Killing Your Product Roadmap
One- and two-year grant cycles make it nearly impossible to build a platform that actually serves your audience long-term. Here's how to plan anyway.
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Akel Aguad
Full-stack developer and web consultant with over 9 years of experience building web products from zero to launch. I've worked with media organizations, startups, and small businesses across the US and Latin America. At Rainsystems, I help newsrooms cut through the noise and make smarter digital decisions, from strategy to shipping.
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Belonging Is a Design Problem
Most nonprofit news sites are built for strangers. That is a design failure, not just an editorial one, and it costs you members.
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Shared technology platforms for nonprofit news networks make obvious sense on paper. The execution is where things fall apart, and it usually starts with the we