Leading Teams to Online Fundraising Overnight Interview with Megan Anhalt

Megan Anhalt is the Chief Strategy Officer and COO of Whole Whale. She has over 10 years of experience leading purpose-driven projects to help nonprofits, foundations, and companies create social impact. As a Strategy Director and Senior Strategist for Purpose, Megan drove several campaigns to address some of the world’s biggest challenges, including supporting the rights of low wage workers, fighting Parkinson’s disease, building a better food system, and improving jobs in America today. Before joining the team at Whole Whale, Megan led digital communications for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, managing web, Facebook, and overall digital strategy for Priscilla Chan and the Zuck himself under CZI’s philanthropic banner.

Leaders looking to build up their digital capacity, especially in fundraising need to know the right people to bring on and train. Organizations are moving all of their work online overnight and there are different skills required. Who should you be hiring? How can you train existing people? How do we measure the success of online fundraising from the beginning? How does increased online fundraising work with existing efforts?