What Fundraisers Need From Technology Consultants (and Vice Versa)

The whole point of working with an online fundraising technology consultant is to make your life easier. But sometimes the consultant-fundraiser relationship can be just as difficult and complex as keeping up with all the new technologies themselves.

Thomas Gensemer knows a thing or two about the client-consultant relationship. As managing partner of online technology provider Blue State Digital, he knows exactly what a consultant needs from an organization to make things run as smoothly as possible. And as former director of Internet strategy for America Coming Together — where he managed the organization’s online fundraising, grassroots recruitment and marketing — he knows what fundraisers need from the consultant.