Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio: Recent Episodes
Tony Martignetti
This Week:
Low-Lift Donor Retention
So many nonprofits have a leaky bucket problem: donors don’t stay after their first gift. We all know retaining existing donors costs so much less than acquiring new ones. Chris Vaughan shares his thinking on keeping donors in the bucket through mission connection; engagement; relationships; retention rate ownership; welcome streams; and more. He’s co-founder of Sequence Consulting.
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The Science Of Fundraiser Feelings
We take a scientific look at fundraiser behavior and behavior design, with Mallory Erickson. What does the science say about what happens in the fundraiser’s body at stressful moments, like a solicitation or problem confrontation? Are you or your fundraisers performing tasks that make them feel productive, but avoid the true work of fundraising? Mallory is CEO of Practivated and she talks us through.
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800th Show!
It’s Nonprofit Radio’s 800th show and 16th Anniversary Jubilee. To celebrate, co-host Claire Meyerhoff brings her Sweet Sixteen theme. We have our associate producer, Kate Martignetti; 3 live songs from Scott Stein, including our theme “Cheap Red Wine;” and, our contributors Gene Takagi (law), and Amy Sample Ward (technology), are also on board. It’s fun and music and celebration! And gratitude.
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A Wide-Ranging AI Conversation With 3 Experts
The company Accenture published an AI report, “Learning Reinvented,” about the connection between humans and artificial intelligence. Our smart panel discusses it and takes on broader, related subjects including leadership; equity; trust; values; space to adapt; and, training. They’re Afua Bruce, CEO of ANB Advisory Group; Amy Sample Ward, CEO of NTEN; and, Laurel Mikalouski, research specialist with Accenture.
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5 Project Management Tools For Non-Project Managers
From project charter to closing report, Adrienne Figus walks you through the essential tools to help you take control of the changes you may find yourself leading. She’s with Madison College. Here are the resources Adrienne refers to. Open Link
Cybersecurity On A Shoestring
Our panel covers 10 essential security measures every nonprofit can implement right now, without an IT team and without breaking the bank. From knowing where your data is to changing default configurations. And from firewalls to offboarding data. They’re Edward Wilson at ArchTech and Ellen Samuel from Just-Tech. Here are their resources. Open Link
Make Confident Tech Decisions
Simone Carvalho and Rebecca Kaplan explain when you need an audit of your tech stack, and the steps to conduct the assessment. Along the way, you’ll lean on surveys, interviews and process maps. Simone is with Skeleton Key Strategies and Rebecca is at Feeding America.
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Confessions Of Nonprofit Social Media Managers
Approval processes. Posting frequency. Constant emergencies. Managing AI. To overcome those challenges, our panel offers time-saving tactics, strategies to fight burn out, smart ways to use AI, and more. They’re Keara Klose from Cats In Bloom, Kate Meyers Emery at Candid, and Ashlee Dean with Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children. (This is part of our 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference coverage.)
Convert Your Member Website Into A Thriving Community
Leah and Chris Lundberg are spouses who met at a previous NTC. They reveal their thinking on creating a community by auditing your current experience, applying opportunities for connection and leveraging available tools. We also dive into their opinion that SaaS is dead amid a move to data democratization and the own-your-data movement. They work together at Engine 9. (This is also from #26NTC.)
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Your Fall Gala Strategy
The CEO of Trellis.org wants you to recognize your gala as a substantial fundraising growth opportunity. He shares his advice on unlocking new revenue drivers; turning one-night attendees into long-term donors; modern upsells; using tech wisely; and much more. He’s Justin Goodhew.
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A Skeptic’s View On The Value Of AI In Fundraising
“Holding Fire” is Stephen Christopher Nill’s new book, written by this artificial intelligence skeptic. Launching his book on Nonprofit Radio, he presents his Human-Centered AI Framework, five principles to keep humans at the center, as AI does the work no one fundraiser could do alone. There’s fundraising potential. There are fundraising risks. You’ll find Steve’s book at CharityChannel.com.
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Your Successful Giving Day
Our coverage of the 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference continues as Jackelyne Briseño helps you leverage giving day opportunities through segmentation; gamefying strategies; multi-channel methods; collaborating internally; using social influencers; preparing your CRM database; and, more. Jackelyne is with American Near East Refugee Aid.
Biases In Prospect Identification
Let’s name how and where selection bias, confirmation bias and availability bias creep into your prospect identification processes, and identify methods for stepping away from bias so it’s mitigated. Sarah Marcotte is at Sick Kids Foundation and Katherine Scott is with Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.
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Apps, Tools & Tactics
Jason Shim returns with his annual rundown of the digital resources and tips that’ll make your online, phone and app lives easier, more productive and safer. He’s with the Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience. (This continues our coverage of the 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
Internal Newsletters Your Staff Will Open
From leadership buy-in, practical tips and consistency, to internal partnerships and implementation, Mia Velasco shares strategies that will get your team anticipating your internal newsletter and missing it when it doesn’t come. Mia is at Namati. (This is also from 26NTC.)
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Brand Your Giving Programs
Farra Trompeter returns, with Ishmam Rahman, to share their advice around applying brand strategies to your monthly, mid-level and Planned Giving programs. You’ll build connections between your programs and improve outcomes. Farra is with Big Duck and Ishmam is from International Rescue Committee. (This continues our coverage of the 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
Donor RetentionIf you want to retain your donors, engage them, and be strategic about it. You may face some roadblocks at your nonprofit, and you’ll want to be familiar with the Fundraising DISC Model. You also need to know the metrics that’ll tell you how you’re doing. Jen Newmeyer has you covered. She’s at PBS. (This is also from 26NTC.)
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DAFs: 2026 Benchmark ReportWe return to our 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference coverage with a discussion of the third annual report on Donor Advised Fund fundraising. Our panel shares DAF giving results; changed donor behaviors; illiquid assets; best practices; and, much more. They’re Karin Kirchoff at K2D Strategies and Mitch Stein from Chariot.
Dashboards As Functional Powerhouses
Kelenda Allen-James reveals lots of info on dashboards, including what’s their value; free entry-level tools; user training; timestamps; a warning on use of public data; paid apps; and, more. She’s with Commonpoint.
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Mission-Driven Mergers
Dave LeVan shares the merger story of Water for Good and Lifewater International, to reveal how to lead a nonprofit merger in a resource-constrained environment, without sacrificing the mission. He explains the role of the board and C-suite; the importance of trust; the value of spirited conversation; and, a lot more. His story has takeaways far beyond mergers, for any period of uncertainty or change your nonprofit might face. Dave is CEO of Water for Good.
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This Week:
Mid-Level Recruiting Strategy & Tactics
Mitch McDermott stresses the value of a strong middle management team, and brings contrarian hiring and interviewing tactics, so you recruit the best team possible. He shares advice for nonprofits and individuals on working with recruiters, and adds a pro tip on how to find emails of hiring managers. He also takes on what’s current in remote versus in-office working; in-person versus virtual interviewing; assigning tasks to interviewees; the questionable value of salary surveys; and, more. Mitch is CEO of Talent Ascension Group.
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Honoring Others Through Effective Listening
We take a break from our Nonprofit Technology Conference coverage, to learn the difference between hearing and listening; how effective listening makes people feel; the 4 habits of listening; the goal of listening; the importance of the pause; and, much more. You need to listen to Dr. Laura Janusik, from ListeningToChange.com.
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This Week:
Disaster Recovery & Incident Response For Accidental Techies
Our conversations from the 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference continue with your DR & IR plan. Cyberattacks, hardware failure or human error can cause big problems, but get minimized when you have the right plan in place. Amanda Bache helps you keep calm when everything crashes, by working ahead of time to identify your critical systems; create actionable response steps; test your plan; and maintain resilience. She’s with Paths For Families.
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AI For The Rest Of Us
Our coverage of the 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference continues with Allison McMillan’s survey of these Artificial Intelligence tools: Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Suno. She reviews their use cases; the differences between them; their limitations; and, pitfalls. Allison is CEO of Tavlin Consulting.
Your AI Acceptable Use Policy
Eric Molho, founder of Bon Partners, explains what belongs in your Artificial Intelligence acceptable use policy. As you and your AI tools learn iteratively from each other, evolving your policy and culture, you need guardrails around data protection; transparency; accuracy; ethics; and, sustainability.
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This Week:
Responsible AI Adoption
We continue our coverage of the 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference (26NTC), with a panel that helps you find the low-hanging fruit for AI at your nonprofit. They share their 5-Step framework for deploying AI in small, thoughtful steps. They’re Jen Frazier, from Firefly Partners; Kate Dreyfuss at New Music USA; and, Ben Freda with BFC Digital.
Ethically Using AI
Chris Rosica and Bethany Friedlander share 5 strategies to create compelling web and social content with AI, keeping in sight ethics and risks: Ideation; targeting; optimization; repurposing; and, staying human. Chris is from Rosica Communications and Bethany is at New Bridge Cleveland.
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Consider The Human Factors
We launch our coverage of the 2026 Nonprofit Technology Conference with an NTC perennial: Rubin Singh. This year, he asks you to consider the human side of tech that impacts your CRM, and really, all technology: governance; business processes; inclusive design; and, change management. Rubin is CEO of OneTenth Consulting.
A Conversation With The NTEN CEO
NTEN hosts the Nonprofit Technology Conference. NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, is also Nonprofit Radio’s technology contributor. They join us to share about the people and place of 26NTC. What does the host CEO do to prepare for a major annual conference?
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This Week:
Emotional Intelligence For Leaders
Raised in Northern Ireland during years of deep division, Dr. Irvine Nugent brings EQ and conflict resolution skills for nonprofit leaders. He identifies the 4 skills leaders need along with how to avoid escalation and maintain credibility. He’s the co-founder of Conflict EQ.
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This Week:
“Sell” Your Nonprofit
Encouraging you to know your nonprofit as your product, Jason Barnaby wants you to talk about it in a way that makes people curious to learn more, drawing them closer to your work. Also, he’d like to see you outside your comfort zone, growing, as you share your story with donors and volunteers. Jason’s company is Fire Starters, Inc.
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This Week:
Podcasthon: Athens Area Humane Society
As part of the worldwide Podcasthon, we make space for Cheryl McCormick, CEO of Athens Area Humane Society, in Athens, GA, to reveal her secrets to enormously successful Planned Giving fundraising at a small nonprofit.
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This Week:
Your 5-Step Inclusive Strategic PlanThe author of the book “Inclusive Strategic Planning for Nonprofits,” talks you through her strategy of kickoff; discovery; prioritization; planning; and, implementation. She makes your plan a valuable, living resource, rather than a dusty volume sitting on your shelf. Renee Rubin Ross is CEO of The Ross Collective.
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This Week:
Savvy CSR Seeking
Kimberly O’Donnell delivers strategies and tactics for your corporate social responsibility fundraising. She advises you to build relationships and avoid transactions; lead with mission and your compelling story; include volunteering; tap your community to avoid cold outreach; leverage your own data; and, a lot more. Kimberly is with Bonterra.
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This Week:
Systems & Processes So Your People Thrive
Dylan Bassett helps you create your invisible infrastructure, so you can quietly reduce burnout, increase efficiency and make it easier for your nonprofit to grow. He shares the signs that your internal systems are weak, explains how to pick the right tools to complement your work reality and helps you design workflows and templates that ease your team’s cognitive load. Dylan leads Dept. 1 Solutions.
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Grow Your Personal Brand & Your NonprofitAs a nonprofit leader, you can build your personal brand and watch benefits accrue to both you and your organization. With the right messaging, strategy, consistency, and authentic connection, your individual and nonprofit brands coexist, and each sees increased visibility and impact. Emmy Award winner Bofta Yimam, founder of StoryLede, explains it all.
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This Week:
Bring Fun To Evaluation & Impact Data
Kayla Meyers reveals the fun in what may sound dull, through braids, data galleries and data escape rooms. She distinguishes between outputs, outcomes and impact, and explains the disconnect between traditional evaluation and the impact measurement we need in today’s environment. She helps you recognize common evaluation challenges and sets you up to overcome them. Kayla is the founder of Bridgepoint Evaluation.
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This Week:
Monthly Giving Matters
First, Dana Snyder shares info on the Global Monthly Giving Summit later this month. Then, she shares what she knows about how to launch or grow your monthly sustainer fundraising. How to convert one-time donors to recurring donors. What to name your program. When to ask your sustainers to upgrade. What to give your sustainers. Storytelling. The importance of consistency. And more. Dana is the founder of Positive Equation.
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This Week:
Put Passion & Fun Into Your Fundraising
Ben Cooley brings his energy and warmth as he shares his thinking on intimate donor events; savvy stewardship (Thanking is banking!); your major donor conversations; the critical role of leadership in fundraising; and, a lot more. He’s founder and CEO of Maxwell & Marie.
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This Week:
Thrive Amid The Digital Transformation
The digital marketing we grew up with is no more, mostly due to Google AI Overview and all the other Artificial Intelligence surrounding us. We’ve talked about this and Lou Kotsinis brings his perspective. What is zero-click marketing and how can your nonprofit exploit it? What new role does your website play and what are best practices now? Plus much more. Lou is CEO and co-founder of BCS Interactive.
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Be Human & Be Yourself, For Best Fundraising
Messy and authentic. That’s how Brad Ton wants you to come to your fundraising relationships, for best outcomes. Be genuinely curious about people, with a dose of strategy, and you’ve got his formula for success. A retired hip-hop recording artist, he has great storytelling advice. He also shares how LinkedIn is vastly underutilized by nonprofits as a relationship builder, and what you can do to excel there. This is an especially fun and spirited conversation. Brad is an account executive in nonprofit technology at Instil.
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This Week:
771: 2026 Outlook
Our Esteemed Contributors kick off 2026 to share what they’re looking out for in the New Year. We talk about increased hesitation around AI adoption; mitigating the risks of political, legal and PR attacks; your board’s role in protecting your nonprofit; increased collaborations between nonprofits; data protection; overcoming fears; and, a lot more. They’re Amy Sample Ward, our tech contributor and CEO of NTEN, and Gene Takagi, our legal contributor and principal attorney at NEO, the Nonprofit and Exempt Organizations Law Group.
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This Week:
Decolonizing Wealth
This first aired in 2018, yet it feels more relevant right now, as we witness gross acts of separation and exploitation of non-white people, and the wealth divide has become larger and more consequential. Edgar Villanueva’s book, “Decolonizing Wealth,” takes an innovative look at the purpose of wealth. His thesis is that the solutions to the damage and trauma caused by American capitalism, including philanthropy—can be gleaned from the values and wisdom of our nation’s original people. Edgar is a Native American working in philanthropy. (Originally aired 11/30/18)
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Overlooked Consequences Of A.I. & How To Preserve Your HumanityThere’s a broad temptation we each face, to enlist Artificial Intelligence tools in all nonprofit and personal decisions. Some people have intimate relationships with A.I. bots. At what cost? Jacob Ward has spoken to psychologists, mediators, venture capitalists, and others on this question. He shares his research learnings to help you and your nonprofit determine A.I.’s boundaries. Jacob is a veteran journalist formerly with NBC News, reporting for Nightly News, The TODAY Show and MSNBC.
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This Week:
Bookkeeping Red Flags & Your Board’s Oversight
Jackie Shaw reveals the biggest financial red flags most nonprofits overlook, including proper controls; reconciliation; getting receipts; your chart of accounts; and more. She also shares how to keep your board fully informed, without overwhelming them. Finally, she’s got an admonition about QuickBooks Online. Jackie is co-founder of Brass Jacks.
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This Week:
Managing Money & Your Banking Relationship
Let’s talk about money, a topic people fear more than the dentist or death. And let’s talk about the place your nonprofit keeps its money—a bank. Keith Mestrich doesn’t fear talking about liquidity and cash management; reserves; lines of credit; debt; negotiating bank fees and interest; getting the most from your bank; CEO and board, money management KPIs; and more. He’s senior advisor at Crescent Cares.
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This Week:
Another Conversation With Art Taylor
The CEO of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), returns to share his thinking on the GoFundMe chaotic week in October, addressing the decline in families who donate to nonprofits, and our community’s perception and messaging challenges. It’s an open, honest conversation with this leader of the nonprofit sector.
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This Week:
What We Can Learn From For-Profits
Let’s not fawn over for-profit companies. Not everything they do carries over to our nonprofit community. But some things do. Like building systems and processes; diversifying revenue; knowing KPIs cold; relentless customer focus; and, more. Plus, let’s look at what nonprofits do better. Stephen Halasnik walks us through the best of both. He’s co-founder of Financing Solutions.
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This Week:
Takeaways From Film Work, So You Flow & Do Your Best Work
Steven Puri brings lessons from his work in film, which is inherently remote and distributed, to help increase your personal and team productivity. Time boxing; mono-tasking; focus music; dopamine management; and more, will all help you achieve and maintain a flow state. Steven is CEO of The Sukha Company.
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This Week:
The New Tax Law: What It Means For Your Fundraising Right Now & In 2026
In January, there are substantial changes coming to tax and donation laws that impact your fundraising messages for end-of-year, and in the new year. Russell James returns to explain the details of these important changes for individuals and corporations. He’s a professor at Texas Tech University, where he studies charitable giving.
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This Week:
HR Equity For Non-HR Professionals
Following last week’s HR Overview, our panel focuses on equitable human resources. They take you through the employee lifecycle, from job description and your hiring process, through professional development and a career competencies map, to growth and promotion. And, you’ll find out why this is a carceral podcast. They’re Jennie Goldstein, organizational change consultant, and Briana Marbury, CEO of Interledger Foundation.
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This Week:
HR Overview For Non-HR Professionals
Trust is key, and so is strong middle management, for CEOs and EDs responsible for human resources in their nonprofit. Janelle Miller Moravek helps with what to focus on, and how to manage job descriptions and hiring; retention; promising employees; problem employees; talent development; performance management; and, more. She’s executive director at Youth & Family Counseling.
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This Week:
Your AI Brand Footprint
What is this thing, why should you care and what can you do to improve it? George Weiner returns to acquaint you with his company’s study of how Artificial Intelligence will influence giving in Q4. Then he explains the implications of the research, including that last year’s content strategy is obsolete. He also brings tactics for you and your content to get the recognition you deserve from Google Gemini, ChatGPT and their colleagues. George is Chief Whaler at Whole Whale.
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This Week:
Better Governance With Relational Leadership
Let’s have a frank conversation about the state of nonprofit governance, and staff and volunteer leadership. Some of the issues are individual. Some are systemic. All are fixable once we identify them and their root causes. Froswá Booker-Drew is the founder of Soulstice Consultancy.
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This Week:
The State Of The Sector (Beginning With AI)
This year, any conversation about the nonprofit sector finds its way to Artificial Intelligence. So we start there, with our contributors Gene Takagi on legal and Amy Sample Ward on technology. Amy is concerned about our lack of security readiness and shares their Top 5 security must-haves. Gene explains your board’s duties around tech, budgeting and planning. They both see resilience as critical. Plus, a ton more. Gene is principal attorney at NEO Law Group and Amy is the CEO of NTEN.
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This Week:
The Value Of Nonprofit Journalism For Your Work
Monika Bauerlein reveals lessons to learn from when Mother Jones, the magazine, had its nonprofit status revoked in the 1980’s during the Reagan administration. She also shares her thinking on how to proactively protect your nonprofit; how to avoid feeling intimidated; and the importance of local journalism and building relationships with local reporters. Monika is CEO of the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit investigative news outlet.
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This Week:
Storytelling, With An Award-Winning Crime Fiction Author
Carl Vonderau has made many mistakes in his professional writing—and he wants you to learn from them. His savvy advice includes: Use the senses; evoke emotion; get your readers and viewers to empathize; find the conflict and success; show transformation; and a lot more. You’ll find him at CarlVonderau.com.
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This Week:
Your Emergency Marketing Plan
Our panel helps you prepare for, and respond to, emergencies with your digital marketing and fundraising. They also help you steward your new donors. They’re Sarah Allen from BRAC USA, along with Julia Molinaro and Michelle Shen, with The Purpose Collective. (This is part of our coverage of the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
Your More Diverse Board
Board diversity remains a challenge and Jonathan Meagher-Zayas wants to support you in diversifying. See the difference between, “We welcome everyone” and “We created this space with you in mind.” He’s got recruitment and retention strategies and explains how you can leverage technology. Jonathan is at Equity Warrior Strategies. His shared resources are Change Model; 5 Domains of Anti-oppressive Leadership; and DEI research. (This is also from our #25NTC coverage.)
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Put The Fun In Fundraising
Sarah Angello and Dinesh Nadar want to see you have enjoyment, pure fun(!), in your fundraising. They reveal the psychology behind gamification, and share elements and case studies of successful gamification. This will help you shift the power dynamics between your donors and your nonprofit. Sarah and Dinesh are both from Daffodil. (This is part of our coverage of the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
Adopt New Software
Our panel supports your new software project with advice around leadership; champions; communications; preserving ideas; requirements; migration; smooth launch; post-launch strategies; and more. They’re Melissa Dickinson, Evelyn Dickinson and Nikki Neuen, all from Logical Alternative, Inc. Their titles are Ace, Diva and Maven, respectively. Their resources for you are at https://logalt.net/25ntc/. (This is also from our #25NTC coverage.)
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Inclusive & Engaging Virtual Meetings
Our panel reveals how you can host accessible virtual meetings that foster active participation by removing barriers for diverse audiences, so all voices are heard and valued. They’re Tiffany Ferguson and Akailah Jenkins McIntyre, both from DevelopWell. (This is part of our coverage of the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
RFP: Request For Partnership
Kylie Aldridge Ogden and Ashley Stagg help you reimagine the RFP as a request for partnership. They share advice on what a good RFP looks like; how to involve your teams and get buy-in; how to keep the work on budget and on time; and, more. Kylie and Ashley are with ImageX Media. (This is also from our #25NTC coverage.)
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Congrats, You’re A Manager, Now What?
Our panel shares advice for new managers, which can also support established leaders. They bring strategies for employee-centric growth; self and team advocacy; goal setting; coaching; building trust; and more. They’re Brenna Holmes from Brenna Holmes Advisory Consulting, and Kerry Lenahan at Incubate Growth Consulting. (This is part of our coverage of the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
Facing Feedback
Dana James wants to make feedback a growth opportunity, for both giver and receiver. She has ways to make feedback constructive for both, so you can create a culture of continuous improvement. Dana is with Community Centric Fundraising. (This is also from our #25NTC coverage.)
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Fundraising Storytelling To Show Your Impact
Lots of nonprofits don’t have direct monetary impact to promote their work. If that’s you, Megan Castle has practical tips and strategies to collect and distribute quality, down-to-earth stories from your real supporters. She’ll help you engage your audiences, increase donations and save team time. Megan is CEO of Soapboxx. (This is part of our coverage of the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
5 Common Email Marketing Mistakes And How To Fix Them
Yes, email performs well. Period. But you want your email campaigns to perform best. Are you making typical mistakes with inducing folks to join your list; welcoming them; bloating your messaging; talking too much about you; and, in who’s sending? Patty Breech explains these common mistakes and how to correct them. She’s founder and CEO of The Purpose Collective. (This is also part of our #25NTC coverage.)
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750th Show!
It’s Nonprofit Radio’s 750th show and 15th Anniversary Jubilee. To celebrate, co-host Claire Meyerhoff shares her “Ode to Nonprofit Radio.” We have our associate producer, Kate Martignetti; 3 live songs from Scott Stein, including our theme “Cheap Red Wine;” and, our contributors Gene Takagi (law), and Amy Sample Ward (technology), are also on board. It’s fun and music and celebration! And gratitude.
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This Week:
Your Intergenerational People Pipeline
Aria Ma wants you to create a culture that welcomes and empowers team members across the generations. She shares her wisdom on knowledge transfer; pathways for growth, regardless of seniority; using tech to build your talent pipeline; mentorship; fun cross-generational training; inclusive professional development; and more. Aria is founder of LUNEAERA. (This is part of our coverage of the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
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We’ve Been Hacked!
Our panel from the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#25NTC), helps you with actionable takeaways to strengthen your incident response plan. You do have an incident response plan, right? They reveal the right responses and responsibilities for your leadership, IT, communications, and other key roles. They’re Steve Sharer from RipRap Security and Danielle Eliser with Chef Ann Foundation.
Smart Data Storage
Brian Cavanaugh and Tiffany Nyklickova want you to avoid common data pitfalls while ensuring your data is smart, secure and searchable. They consider the pros and cons of cloud versus onsite storage, and explain how folder structures, filenames and metadata make your data organized and easy to retrieve. Brian is at The Vilcek Foundation and Tiffany is from Services In Action. This is also part of our 25NTC coverage.
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This Week:
Nonprofit Leadership With Stacy Palmer
The chief executive of the Chronicle of Philanthropy joins us with her thoughts on the challenges facing nonprofit leaders, especially females, and especially females of color. Stacy also reveals the bright spots in a recent leadership survey, and promising opportunities around co-CEOs, sabbaticals, self care, team care and humanity care.
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Tech To Amplify Youth Voices
Our panel from the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference, examines how nonprofits use Artificial Intelligence, social media and other technology to uplift young people. They share challenges and successes to increase your awareness and help you give voice to younger constituencies. They’re Sam Kussin-Shoptaw, from Amazon Web Services; Sahil Gupta at DoSomething.org; Katelyn Gillum with Crisis Text Line; and Bee Lee, CEO of Epilepsy Foundation.
Donor Diversity Redefining Social Fundraising
GenZ, Hispanic and Black donors are driving shifts in event fundraising, giving days, peer-to-peer campaigns, and more. Demetria Lightfoot and Nikki DeFalco, also from our 25NTC coverage, share the trends to help you tailor your campaigns to resonate with these growing donor bases. Demetria is at Youth In Need and Nikki is with OneCause.
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A Conversation With Art Taylor
He’s the recently appointed president and CEO of AFP, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, so we’re on hiatus from our 25NTC interviews for one more week. Art explains the value of AFP in our community, including enforcing professional ethics; reflects on our challenges and how to advocate for our sector; shares his thoughts on fashion, guided by his wardrobe stylist wife, Yolanda; challenges us to improve donor participation; and urges us to take responsibility for our community’s image and performance.
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Donor Advised Fund (DAF) Fundraising
You shouldn’t need much encouragement, or any, to incorporate DAFs into your fundraising mix. But Matt Nash brings the encouraging stats. Then he explains how to overcome challenges, like anonymous donors; strategies for marketing and promotion; and tips on converting from transactional to relational fundraising. He’s from The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
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This Week:
Consciousness & Intentionality In Work & Retirement
Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons wrote a book for retirement planning that has value for anyone, at any age, who aspires to fulfillment and joy through all the stages and pages of their professional and personal lives. She walks you through the value of play; embracing new mindsets; constantly evolving; sovereignty over time; the power of full engagement; managing energy, not time; and a lot more. Elizabeth’s book is, “Encore.”
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This Week:
Storytelling & Local Media
Fabiana Meléndez Ruiz reminds us of the value of sound storytelling, and how to get your house in order before you go public with your stories. She shares sound advice on the great value of local media and how to build the journalist relationships that will help you get your stories told. Fabiana also reveals startling media consumption trends among Gen Z and Alphas. She’s the CEO of Refuerzo Collaborative.
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This Week:
Healthier Productivity From AI
Our annual duo returns with tips and resources to make your use of artificial intelligence better for you. They also go beyond AI with many smartphone strategies, inbox management, and Meico shares his shutdown ritual for bedtime. They’re Jason Shim, from Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience, and Meico Marquette Whitlock, The Mindful Techie. This is part of our coverage of the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#25NTC).
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This Week:
Employee Wellness
Meet a company where one of the employees is a wellness coach for all the others. Mandy Kutschied and Sam Hanley are with The Fresh Perspective Group. They share practical strategies for employee wellness; ergonomic resources; a 4-day work week; productivity tips; and, talk about the ethics of wellness coaching in the workplace. Sam often hears things she cannot reveal. This is part of our coverage of the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#25NTC).
Email Deliverability
This comes up frequently at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, because the rules often change about whether your emails get delivered and how they get treated by email providers. Are you right to only mail to people who’ve recently opened a message from you? No. Is it good practice to make sure everyone has opted in to your list? No. Anne Paschkopić explains why these and other former best practices, are no more. She’s from M + R. This conversation is also from #25NTC.
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This Week:
Connect Small Donors To Your Major Donor Event
Jenn Lejano and Jess Ray show you how to connect folks who would never come to your expensive event, to your expensive event. They’ll help you broaden event support by engaging donors you’re probably leaving on the sidelines, with actionable strategies to engage your entire donor base. Jenn is from Fresh Eyes Digital and Jess is with The Adler Planetarium. This is part of our coverage of the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#25NTC).
Add Experiential Elements To Your Events
You can learn from big brands to create buzz and emotional connections around your events, without spending the money they do. You’ll engage your supporters emotionally as you incorporate experiential and interactive features into your events. Genie Gratto is at GWRITES. The resource she shared is here. This conversation is also from #25NTC.
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This Week:
PII In The Age Of AI
Artificial Intelligence and big data have transformed privacy risks by enabling malicious, targeted communications to your team that seem authentic because they contain highly accurate information. Kim Snyder and Shauna Dillavou explain the risks your nonprofit faces and what you can do to protect your mission. Kim is from RoundTable Technology and Shauna is CEO of Brightlines. This continues our coverage of the 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#25NTC).
Balance AI Ethics And Innovation
Gozi Egbuonu encourages you to adopt Artificial Intelligence responsibly, in a human-centered approach. First, be thoughtful with the threshold question, “Should we use AI?” If you go ahead: Create a thorough use policy; overcome common challenges like staff training and identifying champions; manage change intentionally; and more. Gozi is with Technology Association of Grantmakers. This is also part of our #25NTC coverage.
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This Week:
#25NTC
We launch our 25NTC coverage with the CEO of NTEN, which hosts the Nonprofit Technology Conference, sharing the numbers and the experience of this year’s Conference, earlier this month in Baltimore, Maryland. They’re Amy Sample Ward, and they’re also Nonprofit Radio’s technology contributor.
The Human Factors Driving Your CRM Success
Don’t blame your tech first when it feels like your CRM database is letting you down. Human beings, the tech users, have responsibilities that precede, and must align with, your technology. Rubin Singh returns to enlighten us about business processes; inclusive design; personal and professional growth; and more human factors that impact the success of your CRM database. He’s founder and CEO of OneTenth Consulting.
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This Week:
Wake Up Excited, Go To Bed Fulfilled
That’s what Eric Saperston wants for you. In this archive show from October 17, 2022, he returns after many years to share his wisdom borne of research over cups of coffee with some of the most successful folks on the planet. Plus there’s his book, “Live In Wonder.” We can always use Eric’s inspiration and empowerment.
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This Week:
Your Improved Fundraising Messaging
Do your fundraising messages engage and connect with your donors and prospects? Or do they merely inform? Do you know how to craft an engaging story? And what makes stories so valuable anyway? Lynn Bohart answers all these questions and more, as she encourages you into persuasive writing and core messaging. Her new book is “Raise More Money Through Better Messaging.”
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This Week:
Nonprofit Leadership For Current & Aspiring
There’s a new compassionate, inspiring and valuable guidebook on nonprofit leadership. It’s aptly named, “How To Lead Nonprofits.” The author, Nick Grono, shares his thinking on the role of the CEO, your team and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), because the success of the people leading throughout your nonprofit, now and in the future, is essential to your mission success. Nick is CEO of Freedom Fund.
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This Week:
Mental Wellness Among The Chaos
When the chaos is the point, let’s help you avoid getting overwhelmed or checking out. Jennifer Walter, a Swiss sociologist and mental health coach, has strategies to gain agency, recharge and build resilience. You need to be good to yourself first, then you can help others. Her practice is at JenniferWalter.me.
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This Week:
Join Us At #25NTC
The 2025 Nonprofit Technology Conference is next month in Baltimore. Nonprofit Radio will be there. You still have time to join in-person or virtual. NTEN CEO, and our technology contributor, Amy Sample Ward, reveals all the learning and fun you can expect.
Great Value In Sustainable Giving
Dave Raley is the author of the book, “The Rise of Sustainable Giving.” Our subscription economy has spawned a change in donor preferences and great growth in recurring donations. Dave shares his expertise on incentives; creating a thriving sustainer program; naming; converting donors to sustainers; what the future looks like; and more. He’s the founder of Imago Consulting.
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This Week:
Google Ad Grants & Your Digital Marketing
Sean Littman has advice for leveraging Google’s generosity and pairing it with your own marketing to grow your email list; encourage giving; revive and cultivate your lists to expand sustainer giving; and, put the right systems in place. He also shares his favorite apps to help you along. Sean is the founder of Catch22 Nonprofit Digital.
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This Week:
Politically Motivated Attacks: Who, What & How
Attacks on our nonprofit community are happening and the environment is likely to get worse before it improves. Just last week Elon Musk called our community a Ponzi scheme. The week before, he claimed only 5-10% of our work does any good, and that the sector is a big scam and a giant graft machine. You need to know who is a potential target of the attacks; what form they take; and, how to proactively protect your nonprofit. Tim Mooney, from Alliance for Justice and Bolder Advocacy, helps you understand.
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This Week:
Julia Campbell On Social Media
The social media maven returns to share her thinking and advice on short form video; ads; working within algorithms; content moderation; and, privacy policies. Let’s talk about X; Facebook; LinkedIn; Bluesky; Instagram; YouTube; and, TikTok. Julia is a nonprofit social marketing consultant.
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This Week:
Prudence In Our Political Environment
Following from our December episode, “Is It Paranoia Or Prudence?,” Gene Takagi and Amy Sample Ward return with updates from the grass roots on DEI, USAID and other spending freezes, major media capitulation, and information on a potential reincarnation of last year’s H.R. 9495 bill. Most importantly, they share advice and resources on how to cope—and keep your nonprofit in the safest posture. Gene is our legal contributor from NEO Law Group. Amy is our technology contributor and CEO of NTEN.
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This Week:
The 4 Mindsets
Over his years working with nonprofits, Dan Johnson has developed four mindsets, or principles, which he encourages leaders to embrace, and spread throughout their teams. He invites us to get comfortable with: The point is impact; the sustainable impact cycle; donors are partners, and, how volunteers get paid. He shares the touching story of his friend, Christina, who was murdered, doing the work she loved. Dan is chief consultant at Next Level Nonprofits.
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This Week:
Consider Video
There are lots of video use cases you may not have in mind. Like employee recruiting, donor stewardship, and volunteer recruiting and thanking. After you identify how video might work for your nonprofit, you need the right equipment, which doesn’t mean spending a lot. Then there’s preparation, shooting and editing. Pat Taggart makes each step very doable, so you can realize the full potential of this powerful medium. He’s founder of SkyBlue Creative.
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This Week:
Your Grantmaker Relationships
Shoshana Grossman-Crist leads you through the pathway of relationships with institutional funders. She reveals her advice on how to build and maintain relationships before you apply for a grant; while your proposal is under review; after you’ve been funded; and, while you’re doing the work. Also, what if the foundation denies your proposal? Her company is Social Impact Compass.
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This Week:
Storytelling
Sarah Wood reminds us of the value in telling good stories to your stakeholders. Also, how do you tell them? Where do you tell them? Which ones are worth telling? What’s ethical storytelling? And, what’s the right engagement or call to action? We pull some lessons from her children’s favorite stories, the “Narwhal and Jelly” series and “Dandelion Magic.” She graciously shares her own story of solo motherhood by choice. Sarah’s company is Sarah Wood Communication.
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This Week:
“Ambiguity Is The Answer”
Though wildly counterintuitive, producing and embracing ambiguity can give you the upper hand when it looks like you have no hand to play. Stop thinking of ambiguity as something you must react to and avoid. Start seeing the value in cultivating it. Kyle Crawford’s book is “Ambiguity Is The Answer” and he explains its power.
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This Week:
“Don’t Mess With Stress” In 2025
Dr. Jill Baron walks us through her four cornerstones for minimizing stress and maximizing wellness in the New Year: diet, meditation, walking (or other exercise), and sleep. Plus, your mental and emotional resilience. She’s our first medical doctor guest, and her book is “Don’t Mess With Stress.”
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This Week:
Looking To 2025: Is It Paranoia Or Prudence?
Our esteemed contributors share what they’re looking to next year, with the uncertainty of a new president and administration. On the table is HR 9495, which some call the NonprofitKiller; government agencies no longer given deference by the federal courts, with the Supreme Court overruling the long-standing Chevron Doctrine; and, uneasiness around the economy rippling out to preemptive nonprofit budget cuts. Our legal contributor is Gene Takagi at NEO Law Group. Amy Sample Ward, CEO of NTEN, is our technology contributor.
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This Week:
The Art & Science Of Fundraising
James Misner explains what he sees as the right and left brain activities of your nonprofit’s fundraising. There are relationships and data; stories and metrics; motivations and outcomes; emotions and systems; and, more brain interactions. Your objective is to balance the art and the science. James is CEO of The Kipos Group.
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This Week:
The Chronicle of Philanthropy Leaders
Stacy Palmer is CEO of the now nonprofit newspaper, and the editor-in-chief is Andrew Simon. We talk about the transition from privately held to 501(c)(3); their plans for growth; the mission, values and priorities guiding them; new content that’s coming; improving mass media’s coverage of our community; the presidential election; potential threats to the sector; and a good deal more.
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This Week:
“Passion Isn’t Enough”
That’s David Rhode’s new book. “It’s necessary, but not sufficient,” says the author. He brings us his practical advice on building your programs, your board, your brand, your team and your volunteer community. His expertise has value for aspiring, new and experienced nonprofit leaders alike. David is CEO of DotDotOrg.com.
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This Week:
Scaling Altruism
That’s Donald Summers’ new book, where he introduces the seven phases of nonprofit growth derived from his research and practice. He walks us through assess, align, plan, test, fund, execute, and lead, so your nonprofit scales to meet the demands of your mission and vision. He’s the CEO of Altruist Partners.
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This Week:
Accepting Cryptocurrency Gifts
Code. Blockchain. Proofs. Wallets. Exchanges. Coins. If foreign words like these keep you from accepting a gift that tens of millions of Gen Z and Millennials invest in and gift, Pat Duffy will set your mind at ease. He defines the terms in plain language and explains why crypto giving belongs on your donation page. He’s co-founder of The Giving Block.
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This Week:
Your One-Page Strategic Plan
In a lot of ways, we can see typical strategic planning as a flawed process. Veronica LaFemina shares a more collaborative endeavor, with more staff collaboration and stakeholder inputs, resulting in a more actionable plan with greater decision-making value. She’s the CEO of LaFemina & Co.
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This Week:
Your Strategic Partnerships
Local nonprofits, companies, government officials and agencies, business leaders, and others can improve your outcomes in ways you cannot imagine. Taking the time to build relationships with potential partners—before you need them—makes a smart investment in your mission and programs. Mark Lillis from Leaven Kids shares his experience and wisdom around savvy partnerships.
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This Week:
How We Got Here
It’s the story of the unpredictable trajectory that led to today’s U.S. nonprofit sector. How did we come to be what we are? The history is told by Dr. Robert Penna, author of the book, “Braided Threads.” (This originally aired August 3, 2018.)
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This Week:
Tech Policies To Reduce Toxic Productivity
First, what is toxic productivity? Then, as your teams use technology more often for work, how might your practices be hurting the people who work with you? Finally, what are the better practices and policies? It’s all covered by Marina Martinez-Bateman, at New Coyote Consulting. (This originally aired August 1, 2022.)
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This Week:
Grants Readiness & Success
DeaRonda Harrison helps you get ready to accept grants and shares strategies for successful grants research, writing and outcomes. Also, how to win grants quickly (it shouldn’t take years!); how to turn a one-time grant into multiyear funding; and her recommendations for grant research platforms. DeaRonda is the president of June First Firm.
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This Week:
AI, Organizational & Personal
Artificial Intelligence is ubiquitous, so here’s another conversation about its impacts on the nonprofit and human levels. Amy Sample Ward, the big picture thinker, the adult in the room, contrasts with our host’s diatribe about AI sucking the humanity out of nonprofit professionals and all unwary users. Amy is our technology contributor and the CEO of NTEN. They have free AI resources.
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This Week:
Quantitative Fundraising Research
You can stop relying on conventional wisdom passed on through webinars and conferences. There’s a plethora of quantitative research on how to optimize storytelling to get your best fundraising outcomes. What is social emotion, how do you evoke it and why should you? How much story detail is not enough or too much? Better to talk about individuals or groups? What does the research reveal to maximize Planned Giving fundraising commitments? Professor Russell James of Texas Tech University walks us through what the research shows.
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This Week:
Board Members Are People Too
One size fits all rules may not make sense for your board, especially if you’re embracing diversity and equity in board membership. Judy Levine is a longtime board coach, trainer and consultant, and she led Cause Effective for 17 years. She’s now an independent consultant. This originally aired August 15, 2022.
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This Week:
A Different Take On Donor Retention
Most donor retention research is on process. Like, get your acknowledgment letters out within 24 hours. Kerry Hecht’s research takes a fresh look at how to keep folks with you. She shares her thinking on getting people to donate time (volunteering), and donating through purchases. Kerry is CEO of 10k Humans.
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This Week:
Community & Engagement
Michelle Boggs shares her thinking on creating community and expanding engagement across your donors and volunteers. How might a Chief Community Officer help? Also, what your nonprofit can do to improve fundraiser retention, which helps you build solid relationships and community. Michelle is with Classy, the nonprofit affiliate of GoFundMe.
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This Week:
“Empowering Women”
Jenny Mitchell’s new book, “Embracing Ambition,” unites the leadership stories of twelve exceptional women CEOs. The result is a mentorship resource for the current and next generation of women leaders. She shares the challenges, including perception barriers, glass cliff assignments and collective vision. Jenny is chief visionary officer of Chavender.
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This Week:
“The Responsive Nonprofit”
That’s Gabe Cooper’s new book. He walks us through the 8 core practices that will disrupt the status quo and make your nonprofit responsive. Like dismantling silos, adopting agile methods, managing change, building a durable team culture, and more. Gabe is CEO of Virtuous.
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This Week:
Get Heard In The Election Season
Peter Panepento returns with savvy advice about getting your messages heard through crowded, noisy channels for the rest of this year. He urges you to prepare your messaging, prepare to pivot away from that messaging, and more. Plus, the value of journalist relationships. Peter comes to us from Turn Two Communications.
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This Week:
High ROI Development & Marketing Communications Teams
You want these two teams—fundraising and marcomm—to align every fundraising hour with its maximum dollars. You want these teams to have the time to secure investment level gifts. And you want them to secure the unrestricted gifts you need to grow and sustain your mission. Sherry Quam Taylor returns to share her strategies for achieving these vital ambitions. She’s CEO of Quam Taylor, LLC.
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This Week:
“How To Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back”
That’s Meico Marquette Whitlock’s new book, and he returns to share his wisdom. The Mindful Techie has advice like honor your priorities; negotiate your boundaries; embody your well-being; mind your meds; and quite a bit more.
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This Week:
700th Show!
It’s Nonprofit Radio’s 700th show and 14th Anniversary. To celebrate, co-host Claire Meyerhoff brings “Claire’s Quiz.” We have our associate producer, Kate Martignetti, live music from Scott Stein, and our contributors Gene Takagi (law), and Amy Sample Ward (technology), are also on board. Also, our sponsors Donorbox and Virtuous check in. It’s fun and music and celebration! And gratitude.
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This Week:
Exploit Conflict & Intuition To Make Better Programs & Products
Our panel from the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference is Drew Nelson, Cassi Johnson and Eve Lacivita. They explain how to add conflict resolution and intuition-driven strategies into your program and product development. Drew is with the City of Saint Paul, MN; Cassi is at Software for Good; and Eve is from EdFuel. This closes out our 24NTC coverage.
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This Week:
Improve Your Communications With AI
Carlos Morales, from Viva Technology, shares how to use specific ChatGPT prompts to accelerate your written drafts; optimize your messaging for clarity and audience; and, personalize your outreach as you maintain a consistent voice, tone and brand. All through artificial intelligence. (This was recorded at the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference, hosted by NTEN.)
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This Week:
Use Your Tech To Enable Generosity
Our panel encourages you to expand your definition of generosity and how you measure it, to better acknowledge diverse forms of giving. They help you facilitate generosity through your data, tech and business processes. They’re Jamie Mueller with PTKO; Peter Genuardi at See the Stars; and, Natania LeClerc from Feeding America. (This was recorded at the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
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This Week:
The Essential Craft Of Leaving Your Job
This provocative panel shares their real stories to inspire you if working at your job, isn’t working for you. They recommend you leave well, and share their advice for your handover plan along with tips for setting up your successor or team for future success. They also help you manage your emotions. They’re Karolle Rabarison from Online News Association; Laura Guzman at DevGlobal; Leana Mayzlina with The Aspen Institute; and Aparna Kothary, an independent consultant. (This was recorded at the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
Data Privacy
Kim Snyder, Lauren Feldman Hay and Jonathan Gellar remind you of the fundamental principles of data privacy, as Jonathan reveals his tragic story of data not adequately protected. They encourage all of us to be good data stewards. Kim is from RoundTable Technology. Lauren and Jonathan are with Fountain House. (This is also from 24NTC.)
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This Week:
Gen Z Career Challenges
After a deeply personal episode, Ray Sherry devoted himself to helping Gen Z’ers—like the one who saved his life—with their careers. He channels his 40 years of experience in financial services and consulting to share his advice, so younger professionals take charge of their careers. Ray is CEO of Zynd.
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This Week:
Future-Proof Your Nonprofit With Apps, Tools & Tactics
Jason Shim and Meico Marquette Whitlock return from the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference, with their annual collection of tech to help you manage your tech. From collaboration to inbox management, from transcription to hidden Zoom tools, this panel will help you find greater balance and efficiency. Jason is at the Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience and Meico is The Mindful Techie.
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This Week:
Your Four-Day Work Week
This 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference panel introduces you to the national campaign for a 32-hour, 4-day work week. They’re the executive director of the campaign, a company that made the switch and a nonprofit that did, too. They’re Vishal Reddy from Work Four, Karim Bouris with Mixte Communications and Pattie Carlin at NTEN.
Intergenerational Communication
Our panel of two Ph.D.’s discusses common communication challenges in the workplace and shares its strategy for overcoming them. They are Lauren Hopkins from Prepared to Impact and Carla Torrence at i.D.R.E.A.M. for Racial Health Equity. This is also from 24NTC.
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This Week:
Strategic Meetings For Teams Of One
As our 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference coverage continues, Janice Chan returns with the savvy idea of adapting team meeting principles to a team of just one. She’ll have you thinking of yourself as a team leader, rather than one person doing everything. Janice is at Shift and Scaffold.
Cyber Incident Cases And Takeaways
We’ve got good stories about bad actors. You’ll also hear the practical steps your nonprofit can take to prepare for cybersecurity incidents to reduce their impact. And we’ll empower you to hold incident prep discussions with your leadership or staff. Steve Sharer, who says “Security is a team sport,” joins from RipRap Security. This is also from 24NTC.
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This Week:
Sociocracy
It’s a new form of decision making you might want to try out. Justin Birdsong from Skeleton Key Strategies introduces us to circle structures, domains and aims, and linking roles, as he acquaints us with this more equitable and inclusive, sociocratic decision making method. (Recorded at the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference.)
Attract More Donors
When your development and communications teams work collaboratively with strong relationships, you’ll draw more donors and increase your fundraising revenue. Our panel shares their strategies. They’re Shannon Bowen with Monsoon Leadership and Emily DiFrisco at the Center for Environmental Health. (Also recorded at 24NTC.)
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This Week:
Experiential Fundraising
Let’s take lessons from the experience economy to create meaningful, memorable experiences for your donors. Brittan Stockert, from Donorbox, walks us through her thinking on events, membership programs, challenges, sponsorships, and more.
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This Week:
Prompt Engineering For Beginners
Our 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference coverage continues. This panel explains how to get the most out of the generative Artificial Intelligence tools when you write your cues, or prompts, to them. You want ChatGPT and their ilk to serve you best, so here’s wisdom from Nyle Malik and Alfredo Ramirez, the co-founders of Prosal.
Get The Most From Your Current Tech
Dana Larkin and Patrick McDermott encourage you to explore the lesser-known features in the software you’re probably already using from Microsoft and Google. There’s a tech stack sitting in your office, underutilized. Let’s put it to work! They’re both from Heller Consulting and this is also part of our 24NTC coverage.
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This Week:
Acquiring Email Leads On Social
This 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference conversation helps you ensure your email acquisition efforts are targeting those interested in your work. You can incentivize your social audiences so they’ll willingly share their emails and you can measure the success of your acquisition campaigns. Melanie Schaffel from Parkinson’s Foundation helps you get started.
Matching Gifts 101, 201, 301
Julie Ziff Sint, Alison Hermance and Mark Doty, also from 24NTC, explain the different types and styles of matching gifts and challenge grants. How do you ethically message and how do you establish your own matching gifts asks? What if you don’t have a matching gift to take advantage of? And more. Julie is with Sanky Communications. Alison is from WildCare. And Mark is at San Francisco SPCA.
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This Week:
A Step Back On Artificial Intelligence
Beth Kanter and Philip Deng urge you to consider the ethical challenges your nonprofit should grapple with before fully adopting generative AI in your work. They’ve got advice for an ethical use policy and guidelines for training. Beth is an author, master trainer and facilitator. Philip is CEO of Grantable. Our conversation was recorded at 24NTC.
Get Your Team To The Next Level
“We do our best work when we’re at our best,” says Kim Truong, as she explains how to evaluate your team’s roles and responsibilities, meetings, reporting, and communications. She also reveals what belongs in your Team Ways of Working Guide. Kim is an independent consultant. This is also part of our 24NTC coverage.
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This Week:
The Generational Divide
Across the generations, people think about work differently. They all have different needs. They all bring different skills. They work for different reasons. They communicate in different ways. But they have one thing in common: Every generation wants to be heard and respected. Miriam Dicks helps you manage across the generations. She’s CEO of 180 Management Group.
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This Week:
Email Deliverability
In our age of rampant spam and artificial intelligence, you need to know how to give your emails the best chance of getting delivered. What are DMARC, DKIM and SPF, and how do they help with deliverability? This 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference panel is Jamie McClelland, Natalie Brenner and Alice Aguilar, all from Progressive Technology Project.
Email Welcome Journeys
What happens after your emails are delivered and folks want to support your cause? How do you bring them into your family so they’re engaged and stay with you. Also from 24NTC, this panel is Patty Breech at The Purpose Collective and Elizabeth Sellers with Humanity & Inclusion.
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This Week:
Avoid Technical Debt
Our 24NTC coverage continues, to help you avoid crushing tech debt that would bust your budget and cause you a big headache. Our panel encourages you to manage and maintain your IT infrastructure and software so that costs are managed. They’re Jagan Narayanan, from Fourth Dimension Technologies, and the tech speaker, writer and consultant, Karen Graham.
Your Technical Roadmap
Another way to steer clear of a technology budget crisis is to prioritize and plan your investments. Kestryl Lowrey shares the best practices for creating your tech roadmap. He’s with Cloud for Good.
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This Week:
Living Our Values
The first of our 24NTC conversations is with our technology contributor and the CEO of NTEN, Amy Sample Ward. They give us the numbers around the conference, and remind us to walk the walk on our nonprofit’s values, including centering equity.
Healing Over Everything
Wellness in your workplace. Is that a value your nonprofit holds? Then take in this conversation packed with suggestions for mental health, creativity and unity in your office. Beth Leigh from Village of Wisdom, shares hers.
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This Week:
Artificial Intelligence For Nonprofits, Redux
A second savvy panel takes on the impact, leadership demands, promises, responsibilities, and future of AI across the nonprofit community. We convened a panel in June last year. But this is an enormous shift in nonprofit workplaces that deserves another look. This panel is Justin Spelhaug, from Technology for Social Impact at Microsoft, and Amy Sample Ward and Tristan Penn from NTEN.
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This Week:
Election Year Activities
In this presidential election year, everything related to politics is prohibited, right? Not so fast. It’s not that simple. There are actions you can take, including lobbying on ballot measures. As long as you follow the rules. There’s no one better to explain those rules than Gene Takagi, our legal contributor. He’s the managing attorney of NEO, the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations law group.
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This Week:
Publish Your Book, Thought Leader
Thought leadership can be valuable to you, your nonprofit, or both. Publishing a nonfiction book is one way to become a thought leader or expand your credentials. From outlining and writing to publishing and marketing, Stephanie Chandler shares her personal experiences and professional wisdom. She’s CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association and the Nonfiction Writers Conference.
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This Week:
Your Partnerships With FGWs
First Generation Wealth creators have different values and mindsets than those who inherited their wealth. And FGWs far outnumber the inheritors. Esther Choy’s research helps you understand these folks and how to build valuable relationships with them. She’s president of Leadership Story Lab. (This originally aired May 17, 2021.)
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This Week:
Frustrations & Opportunities With Jay Frost
Jay returns to share his reflections on four decades in the nonprofit community. There are things he’d like to see us doing better, that the sector has been talking about for many years. But they haven’t changed much. Yet he remains optimistic, so he recognizes the brighter future that’s possible if we practice more of what we preach. Jay is on LinkedIn.
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This Week:
Overcome Your Fear Of Public Speaking
We’d rather face death or the dentist. We’d rather talk about money or sex, than have to speak to an audience. Even a small one. Laurie Krauz can help you overcome your anxiety around talking in public, with her preparation strategies. She’s a presentation skills coach, who Tony worked with for years. They’ve got good stories about how difficult he was, and how she helped him. This originally aired May 24, 2021.
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This Week:
Zombie Loyalists
Peter Shankman is a 5x best selling author, entrepreneur and corporate keynote speaker. His book “Zombie Loyalists” focuses on customer service; creating rabid fans who do your social media, marketing and PR for you. Peter’s book isn’t new, but his strategies and tactics are timeless. This originally aired 12/19/14.
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This Week:
Decolonizing Wealth
Edgar Villanueva’s book, “Decolonizing Wealth,” takes an innovative look at the purpose of wealth. His thesis is that the solutions to the damage and trauma caused by American capitalism, including philanthropy—can be gleaned from the values and wisdom of our nation’s original people. He’s a Native American working in philanthropy. (Originally aired 11/30/18)
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This Week:
Team Engagement Tips
The company Firespring uses unusual and fun strategies to engage their 185 employees, so everyone lives and celebrates the Firespring values—each day. We’re talking Firestarter meetings; Culture Club; Power of Three; and more. Kiersten Hill shares her employee experience to spark your thinking about team engagement.
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This Week:
Performance Measurement
There’s a systematic method for you to get feedback on your nonprofit’s finances; programs, clients; and employees. It’s both art and science. Bryan Shane explains this management and decision-making tool. He’s co-author of the book, “The Leadership-Driven Method to Performance Measurement.”
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This Week:
Our Esteemed Contributors’ 2024 Outlooks
Amy Sample Ward and Gene Takagi kick off the New Year with what they’ll be keeping eyes on this year. They delve into artificial intelligence (AI); the presidential election; donor advised funds; workers’ rights; and more. Amy is our technology contributor and CEO of NTEN. Gene is our legal contributor and principal attorney at NEO, the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations Law Group.
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This Week:
Lessons From The UPenn President’s Resignation
Two weeks ago, the president of the University of Pennsylvania resigned, in large part because major donors to the University harshly criticized her publicly, withdrew their donations, and encouraged others to do the same. Can you prevent an uprising at your nonprofit? How do you manage one if your nonprofit’s core values are at stake? Doug White has been studying ethics for decades and he returns to share what can be learned.
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This Week:
Lessons From The Sam Altman & OpenAI Headlines
Our legal contributor, Gene Takagi, returns to first, unravel the story in his clear, plain language way. Then he shares his wisdom on the takeaways for nonprofits including good governance, proper documentation, gift acceptance, commercial co-ventures, and more. Gene is managing attorney of NEO, the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations law group.
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This Week:
Misinformation & Disinformation
Amy Sample Ward returns with their insights into what to do about these maladies plaguing our world. They reveal smart internal tactics to reduce the odds of your nonprofit’s info being misused by bad actors; what to do if it is; how to avoid your org itself being a source of misinformation; and a lot more. They’re the CEO of NTEN and our technology and social media contributor.
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This Week:
Donor Surveys
You’ll make the most of the donors you have by discovering their potential through surveying. Crystal Mahon and Christian Robillard talk principles, best practices and goal setting. Crystal is with STARS Air Ambulance and Christian is at Beyond The Bake Sale.
People-Powered Movements
This team helps you build more effective and inclusive movements, by encouraging you to think about communications, power and privilege. They’re Celina Stewart from League of Women Voters U.S. and Gloria Pan with Moms Rising.
These originally aired August 7, 2020.
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This Week:
Your Case For Support
Whether you call it a case statement or case for support, it’s a critical part of your next fundraising campaign. Febe Voth has devoted decades to the art of crafting these fine documents. She shares lots of savvy advice from her 2023 book, “The Case for your Cause.”
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This Week:
Fundraising 401
That’s Laurence Pagnoni’s latest book. When this first aired, it was his new book, but Laurence’s strategies and tactics are timeless. It’s a series of masterclasses for all levels and a collection of revelations he gained over 35 years in nonprofit management and fundraising. (This originally aired May 29, 2020.)
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This Week:
Your Website Performance
The first of its kind, 2023 Nonprofit Website Performance Report reveals startlingly disappointing performance across nonprofit websites. RKD Group’s Charles Lehosit explains the shortcomings and how to make the advances needed, so your site’s vital signs improve.
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This Week:
CRM Selection
Rubin Singh returns to help you focus on what matters in CRM selection. To keep you safe from a serious misstep, he also shares his thoughts on what else might be the problem, besides your CRM database. Rubin is CEO of One Tenth Consulting.
What To Ask Before Your New Website
Stephen Tidmore from Mighty Citizen built his first website in 1999, and hasn’t stopped. He shares the questions you need to ask up front, before you embark on a new website project.
These both originally aired on June 14, 2021.
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This Week:
The Surprising Gift Of Doubt
That’s Marc Pitman’s book. It’s stuffed with strategies to help leaders—and future leaders—lead better. Marc is founder of Concord Leadership Group. (This originally aired on August 2, 2021.)
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This Week:
Financial Literacy For Your C-Suite & Board
Leadership that understands your numbers protects not only your nonprofit. It also protects the people filling those roles. Two finance and audit pros walk us through six key metrics that anyone can understand, and that reveal the true state of your financial standing. Dean Dalzell and Jerry Frick are from Veracity Pros.
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This Week:
Performance Improvement
Do you want to get the best out of your teams? That means getting the best from each player. Heather Burright recommends 360 Degree Feedback and she takes you full circle. She’s CEO of Skill Masters Market. (This originally aired on August 9, 2021.)
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This Week:
Fundraising For Introverts
That’s the title of Brian Saber’s new book. He returns with uplifting news for those who prefer quiet time over party time: You can be a great fundraiser! Brian knows. He’s been a successful introverted fundraiser for nearly 40 years. He’s also president of Asking Matters.
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This Week:
Possible Implications Of The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision
The Supreme Court’s decision this summer struck down college admissions affirmative action programs. Yet it may have repercussions for nonprofits around employment, contracts, grants, and other areas. Gene Takagi gives us his analysis. He’s our legal contributor and managing attorney at NEO, the Nonprofit and Exempt Organizations law group.
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This Week:
Donor Dominance
Donor centric doesn’t mean donor dominant. Ian MacQuillin shares his research and thinking on donor power structures in fundraising. For instance, let’s work at the sector, organizational and individual levels, to dismantle patriarchal structures. Ian is director of the Rogare fundraising think tank.
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This Week: Donor Retention The challenges are real and widespread: Aging donors; smaller gifts; and abysmal retention rates. Dennis Fois brings strategies and tactics to raise your consciousness and turn things around. Let’s talk about emotional connections, multithreading, and multichannel, … Continue reading →
This Week:
A Post-Fellowship Conversation With Amy Sample Ward
What did they do over their Bosch Foundation Fellowship, who did they meet and what did they talk about for three months abroad? For a tease: How tech could save an island nation, and the future of the internet. Trivial topics like that. Amy is our technology contributor and the CEO of NTEN.
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This Week: Employee Benefits, For Employees We’re examining benefits from the employee’s perspective. What does a minimum package look like? Which extras can you negotiate for? How valuable is your benefits package? Explaining it all is Courtenay Shipley, founder of … Continue reading →
This Week: The 5 A’s Of Awesome Fundraising It’s a valuable back-to-basics conversation with a bunch of tips you’ve probably never heard. Leading us through is Cara Augspurger from Donorbox. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: Impact Metrics First, we resolve any confusion over impact versus outcomes and outputs. Then, John Mark Vanderpool continues by sharing how to measure your impact, and how to market your impact. He’s co-founder of Social Impact Solutions. They … Continue reading →
This Week: Leadership Lessons Steve Johns’ book is “Fearless.” He shares his philosophy of fearless leadership including building a service mindset and embracing a culture of curiosity; investing in yourself; talking without telling; understanding how “No mud, no lotus” can … Continue reading →
This Week: Giving Circles What are giving circles, when did they begin, how do they work, why do they shift power dynamics, and where’s their value for your nonprofit? Sara Lomelin has made these spread throughout the world as CEO … Continue reading →
This Week: 650th Show! It’s Nonprofit Radio’s 650th show and 13th Anniversary. To celebrate, co-host Claire Meyerhoff shares her “13 Pro Tips & Top Tactics for Nonprofit Podcasts.” We have our associate producer, Kate Martignetti, live music from Scott Stein, … Continue reading →
This Week: Communications & Development Teams Working Better Together Misty McLaughlin and Alice Hendricks close our 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference coverage, as they reveal how these two teams can avoid the common conflicts and tensions, to come together collaboratively. They’re … Continue reading →
This Week: 10 Easy Ways To Boost Your Fundraising On A Budget Relationships; storytelling; thanks; impact; consistency; and more. Rosalind Zavras and Julia Toepfer share tactics you can use right away to increase your fundraising impact without busting your fundraising … Continue reading →
This Week: Brand Democracy Continuing our coverage of the 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference, a conversation about letting go and democratizing your brand, so it’s collectively owned. The why’s, what’s and how’s are explained by Claire Taylor Hansen of Big Duck, … Continue reading →
This Week: Data Driven Storytelling Julia Campbell returns to share her thinking on retaining and engaging donors by creating and curating your best stories. She’s an author, trainer and speaker. This continues our coverage of the 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference, … Continue reading →
This Week: Feasibility Studies: What, Why & How If a capital, endowment or other campaign may be in your nonprofit’s future, you’ll want to consider a feasibility study beforehand. Brian Abernathy, from Convergent Nonprofit Solutions, explains what they’re all about. … Continue reading →
This Week: What Power Really Sounds Like: Using Your Voice To Lead Our coverage of the 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference continues, as Mary Chan encourages you to own your voice story to reclaim your powerful voice. She also shares strategies … Continue reading →
This Week: Artificial Intelligence For Nonprofits We take a break from our #23NTC coverage, as an esteemed, tech-savvy panel considers the opportunities, downsides, potential risks, and leadership responsibilities around the use of artificial intelligence by nonprofits. They’re Afua Bruce (ANB … Continue reading →
This Week:
Equitable Project Management
An automated soap dispenser. One of the most innocuous objects imaginable. Unless it doesn’t dispense soap to people with dark skin. How does bias find its way into technology projects and hurt outcomes? How can we implement technology through an equity lens? Rubin Singh, from One Tenth Consulting, returns to help us understand.
Make Time For Professional Development
Kalenda Allen-James explains the value of investing in professional development and shares a lot of free resources along the way. She’s with Commonpoint Queens.
These both continue our coverage of NTEN’s 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference, #23NTC.
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This Week:
Multigenerational Technology Teaching
If you have folks spanning the generations working or volunteering for your nonprofit, you may have noticed they learn technology differently. Lauren Hopkins shares the strategies for teaching tech across the generations. She’s from Prepared To Impact, LLC.
Goals Aligned With Technology
Step back from your technology decisions before you buy the shiny, new apps. What are your goals for the tech? And how does the tech support your overall goals? Jett Winders from Heller Consulting helps you think through it all.
These both continue our coverage of NTEN’s 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference, #23NTC.
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This Week:
Engagement & Stewardship For Increased Giving
As our #23NTC coverage continues, Brenna Holmes and Alyssa Ackerman deliver systems and ideas that treat your donors right. They help you understand the value of multichannel touches that move the needle on donor retention and value. They’re from Mission Wired.
Data Maturity
Also from #23NTC, how data strategy and practices impact your ability to meet your mission. Plus a free resource to gauge your data maturity. Joanne Jan is from data.org.
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This Week:
Quiet Quitting
Let’s start with what it is. Because it’s not quitting a job. From our coverage of #23NTC, Delaney Mullennix explains the increasing phenomenon, how we got here, and what to do to prevent it. She’s executive director of NonprofitHub.
Email Accessibility
Our #23NTC coverage continues as Coralie Meade Rodriguez, from Firefly Partners, shares strategies that enable the 26% of Americans living with a disability, to fully access your email messages.
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This Week:
Best And Worst Of Newsletters
Patty Breech returns with the most common email marketing mistakes and how to make your print or digital newsletter stand out. She’s CEO of The Purpose Collective.
Digital Self-Care
Here’s help to identify the digital spaces that bring you stress and joy, and realization of the pitfalls of multitasking. Amy Frame also has advice on resilience against online harassment. Amy is from Win Without War.
These both continue our coverage of NTEN’s 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference, #23NTC.
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This Week:
Technology Governance
Sounds boring. In anyone else’s hands, it might be. But Maureen Wallbeoff brings her energy and lightness to help us understand the symptoms of unmanaged tech; the value of a technology governance group; and strategies for easing common technology pain points. Maureen is The Nonprofit Accidental Techie. (This continues our coverage of NTEN’s 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference, #23NTC.)
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This Week:
#23NTC!
Amy Sample Ward kicks off our coverage of the 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference, hosted by NTEN. They cover the Conference details, and delve into weighing the benefits and risks of the fast-moving technology, artificial intelligence. They are the CEO of NTEN and our technology and social media contributor.
Building An Inclusive Board Culture
Let us explore the signs and symptoms of your board’s current culture, and strategies to be more inclusive and equitable, if that’s something your nonprofit needs to pursue. Let us also dive into how to manage toxic people on your board. Renee Rubin Ross is founder and CEO of The Ross Collective.
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This Week:
The High Growth Nonprofit
Matt Scott returns to talk us through his new book, “The High Growth Nonprofit.” He urges you to shed the 5% growth mindset and plan for exponential growth with your rapid growth plan. Matt is CEO of CauseMic.
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This Week:
OK Boomer, Move Over
In only two years, Millennials will make up 75% of the global workforce. Along with Gen Z, these will soon be the majority of your workers, your donors, your volunteers. Think sustainability. Are you engaging them now? Are they fully represented on your board? Gene Takagi talks us through the implications around philanthropy, technology, fundraising, and more. He’s our legal contributor and the principal of NEO Law Group.
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This Week:
Your Relationship With Money
What’s your history with money? What are your emotions around money? How do these influence your fundraising? Rhea Wong explores it all, helping you have a healthy relationship with money, and improving your fundraising.
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This Week:
#23NTC
The 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference is in April, hosted by NTEN. Come in-person or join virtually. Nonprofit Radio will be there. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN’s CEO and our technology contributor, tells us what’s in store.
Is A Social Enterprise For You?
What are these and how do you decide whether to take one on—or even consider it—at your nonprofit? What kinds of businesses lend themselves to social enterprise and how do you structure the relationship? Tamra Ryan makes sense of it all. She’s CEO of Women’s Bean Project. (Originally aired December 13, 2021)
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This Week:
Beat Back Cyberattack
Cyberattacks against nonprofits are on the rise. While you cannot avoid them, you can make them a lot less likely to cost you big money, your data, your reputation, your donors, and your employees. Michael Enos from TechSoup Global helps us out.
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This Week:
Meet The FreeWill Founders
Jenny Xia Spradling and Patrick Schmitt are the co-founders and co-CEOs of FreeWill. Let’s talk about FreeWill’s founding beliefs; the value and simplicity of wills as planned gifts; the enormous wealth transfer underway; pay equity; women and moms in tech; my personal experiment; and more.
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This Week:
Resilience & Lean Risk Management
Ted Bilich wants you to develop a risk management cycle and incorporate lean principles, so you confront negative risks and exploit positive risks. He’s the author of the book, “Managing Your Nonprofit for Resilience.”
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This Week:
Talent Development
With a few practices, you can turn your talent development process into an employee retention tool, a leadership pipeline and a step toward greater inclusivity. Preeta Nayak and Lindsey Waldron, both from The Bridgespan Group, talk through their article, “How Nonprofit Leadership Development Sustains Organizations and Their Teams.”
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This Week:
Inflection Points As Your Nonprofit Grows
There’s a nonprofit life cycle with recognizable stages. At each point, you need to align your goals, plans and actions with the stage you’re in. Brooke Richie Babbage, CEO at Bending Arc, puts it all together.
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This Week:
Mr. Wake Up Excited, Go To Bed Fulfilled, Returns
I had to have Eric Saperston back. After the October 17, 2022 show with him, I got more positive comments than I remember for any guest. This time around, he shares how important nonprofit volunteering has been in his life, the joy he gets from coaching, what he’s learned from his series “Three Things,” and more.
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This Week:
Spend Wisely As You Buy
Let’s talk procurement. Odds are you can save big if you shop smartly. Consolidation. Group Purchasing Organizations. Negotiating. Payment terms. Warranty terms. These will all save you money. Kumar Kannan, from Procural LLC, educates us.
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This Week:
2023 Fundraising Outlook
OneCause’s research study includes insights to help you benchmark, plan, prioritize and improve your nonprofit’s fundraising this year. From OneCause, Sarah Sebastian and Steve Lausch talk us through.
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This Week:
Overcome Common Communications Conundrums
It’s time to change the way you think about marketing, says Erica Mills Barnhart. You’ll make it more successful, find your true believers, and have more fun. She’s CEO of Claxon.
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This Week:
Gene & Amy’s 2023 Outlook
Our esteemed contributors, Gene Takagi and Amy Sample Ward, reveal what they’re thinking about for the New Year. We’re talking about Twitter, donor advised funds, fiscal sponsorship, and illegal activities. Gene comes to us from NEO Law Group, and Amy is CEO of NTEN.
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This Week:
Grameen Team Dream
In his brand-spanking-new book, “Small Loans, Big Dreams,” Alex Counts recounts the story of Grameen Bank’s wild success moving millions of people out of poverty by elevating microfinancing for the poor. Alex tells the story and shares valuable lessons beyond economic development.
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This Week:
Take Heart, Take Action
That’s Trathen Heckman’s book. He urges you to find and live your inspiration through reverence, ripples and relationships, which will lead you to resilience. He talks us through his thinking.
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This Week:
6 Steps Before You Hire
Hiring is rampant because turnover is rampant. You have work to do internally, before you go public with your job posting. Andrea Hoffer, from AHA! Recruiting Experts, talks you through her 6 steps. You can download the first chapter of Andrea’s book, “Hire Higher.” We recorded on a bus in the Israeli desert.
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This Week:
Thought Leadership
Peter Panapento and Antionette Kerr co-authored the book, “Modern Media Relations for Nonprofits.” They share their insights on how to build relationships with journalists so you get heard as the thought leader you are. Plus, other media strategies, like crisis communications. This was part of our coverage of the 2020 Nonprofit Technology Conference.
Content Strategy
Now that you’re an established thought leader, you need to produce multichannel content that’s relevant. Also engaging, actionable, user friendly and SEO friendly. Also from 20NTC, Valerie Johnson from Pathways to Housing PA and Katie Green with The Trevor Project show you how.
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This Week: Your Corporate Funding In “The Boardroom Playbook,” Lori Zoss Kraska gives you step-by-step strategies—and healthy doses of encouragement—to improve your corporate funding process so you increase support and sponsorships. She’s with us to talk about her book. There’s … Continue reading →
This Week: Align Your Money With Your Goals There’s a dimension to your budgeting you might be missing: Organizing your budget so you know what impact your money is achieving for you, and you know the costs connected to your … Continue reading →
This Week: Align Your Money With Your Goals There’s a dimension to your budgeting you might be missing: Organizing your budget so you know what impact your money is achieving for you, and you know the costs connected to your … Continue reading →
This Week: Team Care Susan Comfort wants you to go beyond self care, which we’ve covered over the last two weeks, to team care. Yes, take care of yourself and your friends, then look after your team. She’s founder of … Continue reading →
This Week: Team Care Susan Comfort wants you to go beyond self care, which we’ve covered over the last two weeks, to team care. Yes, take care of yourself and your friends, then look after your team. She’s founder of … Continue reading →
This Week: Make Friends Dr. Marisa G. Franco helps you start and grow friendships, so you can enjoy rich, valuable, fun friendships now and throughout your life. She’s a psychologist, professor and author of the book, “Platonic,” a New York … Continue reading →
This Week: Make Friends Dr. Marisa G. Franco helps you start and grow friendships, so you can enjoy rich, valuable, fun friendships now and throughout your life. She’s a psychologist, professor and author of the book, “Platonic,” a New York … Continue reading →
This Week: Wake Up Excited, Go To Bed Fulfilled That’s what Eric Saperston wants for you. He returns after many years to share his wisdom borne of research over cups of coffee with some of the most successful folks on … Continue reading →
This Week: The Smart Nonprofit That’s Beth Kanter and Allison Fine’s new book, revealing the potential of smart technology and artificial intelligence for your nonprofit, and the entire sector. Beth and Allison are with us to share their thinking. There’s … Continue reading →
This Week: Your Dismantling Racism Journey Starting with your people, your culture and your leadership, how do you identify, talk about and begin to break down inequitable structures in your nonprofit? My guest is Pratichi Shah, founder & CEO at … Continue reading →
This Week: In Nonprofits, Do We Trust? Public trust in nonprofits is eroding. Why is that, what does it mean for our work, and what can the nonprofit community do about it? Gene Takagi, our legal contributor and principal of … Continue reading →
This Week: The Tech That Comes Next Social impact orgs, technology developers, funders, communities and policy makers can all do better at technology development, argue Amy Sample Ward and Afua Bruce in their new book, “The Tech That Comes Next.” … Continue reading →
This Week: Planned Giving For Eastern Donors Cultural and familial differences between East and West raise issues for Planned Giving fundraising. Vidya Moorthy from Clural LLC and Bassett Education India, raises our consciousness. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: Sustainable Fundraising Larry Johnson is author of the book, “The Eight Principles of Sustainable Fundraising.” He walks us through several of them, including “Donors are the Drivers™,” “Leadership Leads™” and “Divide & Grow™.” There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: Your Tech Problem Is Actually A People Problem Wrapping up our #22NTC coverage, Ananda Robie and Sam Dorman sort out why your nonprofit’s technology problem is very likely a people problem. And they share their roadmap to better … Continue reading →
This Week: Accounting For Nonprofit Leaders In our penultimate #22NTC show, Tosha Anderson and Zanni Miranda introduce key accounting concepts to help nonprofit leadership avoid the common pitfalls they see. Tosha is CEO of The Charity CFO and Zanni is … Continue reading →
This Week: Board Members Are People Too One size fits all rules may not make sense for your board, especially if you’re embracing diversity and equity in board membership. Our guest, Judy Levine, is a longtime board coach, trainer and … Continue reading →
This Week: Increase Data Literacy Across Your Nonprofit Widespread data literacy helps your teams build a shared language of data communication, recognize good and bad data, and appropriately apply analytics to improve decision making. Alexandra Mannerings makes the case. She’s … Continue reading →
This Week: Tech Policies That Reduce Toxic Productivity First, what is toxic productivity? Then, as your teams use technology more often for work, how might your practices be hurting the people who work with you? Finally, what are the better … Continue reading →
This Week: Cybersecurity 101 Our #22NTC coverage picks back up with a summary of the tech threat landscape, key policies and procedures to have in place, and how to make the case for devoting resources to IT protection. Our guests … Continue reading →
This Week: 600th Show! For this auspicious occasion, we have august personages. My co-host is Claire Meyerhoff. We’ve got live music from Scott Stein. Our contributors, Amy Sample Ward and Gene Takagi are here. Our sponsors, Turn Two Communications and … Continue reading →
This Week: Service Design Our #22NTC coverage continues with Janice Chan sharing her strategies for creating great programs, events and campaigns that offer value while balancing the needs of all your stakeholders. She’s from Shift and Scaffold. There’s more at … Continue reading →
This Week: Future Of Fundraising Our #22NTC coverage resumes as Adam Garone shares his experience growing the individual donor base and driving transformational change at Starlight Children’s Foundation. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: The Chronicle of Philanthropy Will Go Nonprofit The Chronicle is taking a bold step, from privately held to nonprofit. Why? What does that mean for journalism that covers our community locally and nationally? What can you expect for … Continue reading →
This Week: Your RFP Process There’s a better way to manage requests for proposals, so that you weed out vendors who aren’t right, choose the best finalists, select the best provider, and transition smoothly to project launch. Josh Riman from … Continue reading →
This Week: Appealing To Tomorrow’s Major Donors There’s $50 trillion set to change hands in North America by 2050, enriching today’s millennials and Generation Z. Let’s talk about cultivation and fundraising strategies to reach these generations. My guest is Nejeed … Continue reading →
This Week: Responding To Microagressions & Discrimination Resuming our #22NTC coverage, Dan Berstein helps you identify these situations, decide whether and how to speak up, and mitigate your own potential biases and accept feedback. He has mental health resources for … Continue reading →
This Week: Mentoring Don Gatewood shares his extensive experience with professional and personal mentoring—as both mentor and mentee—so you know what to think about before you enter a mentoring relationship, and what to expect. He’s with The Initiative Baltimore. There’s … Continue reading →
This Week: Many Ways To Test Your Digital Fundraising As our #22NTC coverage continues, Jeremy Haselwood walks you through 30 variables you can test throughout your digital fundraising, including your homepage, donation pages, Facebook ads, and more. He’s from Fundraisers … Continue reading →
This Week: Create Your Email Welcome Journey You don’t want to welcome new donors with only a single email, or worse, digital silence. Seize this unique opportunity to draw folks into your story, validate their decision to support you and … Continue reading →
This Week: Using COPE To Keep Your Website Fresh Create Once, Publish Everywhere. User friendly COPE workflows and principles will efficiently keep your website content up-to-date. Explaining how are Katelyn Gerber and Rachel Kribbs, both from FORM. (This is part … Continue reading →
This Week: The Other Tony Martignetti Am I encroaching on him or is he encroaching on me? I think we can find peaceful coexistence. The other Tony Martignetti is the individual and team coach at Inspired Purpose Coaching and author … Continue reading →
This Week: The mere thought of getting or giving feedback makes many people anxious. Yet normalizing feedback as a safe, productive, routine exercise will improve your team’s performance. Amy Drader from Growth Partners Consulting, reveals how to get to that … Continue reading →
This Week: Apps, Tools & Tactics For The Hybrid Worklpace Work ain’t going back to what it was pre-pandemic. How can you and your teams remain productive, not merely busy? Jason Shim and Meico Whitlock reveal the resources that will … Continue reading →
This Week: Measuring Equity We’re kicking off the 2022 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#22NTC) conversations, with a discussion of how equity can be incorporated into your nonprofit’s performance measurement. Sharing their collaboration are Danielle Fox at Union of Concerned Scientists, Ellonda … Continue reading →
This Week: Your Corporate Partnership Strategy Chris Barlow from Beeline, returns to outline a savvy, winning strategy to help you get valuable corporate partnerships. Beeline has a free resource for you, their Corporate Partnerships Attraction Kit. This follows last week’s … Continue reading →
This Week: Don’t Work For Free Your brand, programs, assets and communities are a commodity worth assigning value to. Is it time to tell a company, or other potential partner, “Thanks, but no thanks.” Matthew Zachary from OffScrip Health shares … Continue reading →
This Week: Improve Your Relationship With Failure We all know we ought to learn from failure. But most of us don’t have that healthy relationship with failure. Ashley Good reveals the breakdowns to help us improve the relationship. Her consultancy … Continue reading →
This Week: Nonprofit Emeriti With JoAnn Goldberger We’re kicking off a new feature, highlighting long-career retirees from the nonprofit community who have ideas, wisdom and experience to share. JoAnn Goldberger is our inaugural Nonprofit Emeriti guest. She shares strategies for … Continue reading →
This Week: Get Off The Recruitment Merry-Go-Round When someone leaves your nonprofit, it’s an opportunity to carefully assess, not a time to jump into a hasty job description and post it on LinkedIn. Teri Beckman shares her strategies for thoughtfully … Continue reading →
This Week: Founder Syndrome It can severely hold back a nonprofit’s work when the organization becomes the founder. What are the symptoms and treatments? Heidi Johnson is a founder, took over leadership from a founder, and has been studying founders … Continue reading →
This Week: Fundraising Amid Polarization From The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Drew Lindsay uncovers the details from his two recent articles reporting on the impact of political polarization on nonprofit fundraising. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: Fundraising Amid Polarization From The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Drew Lindsay uncovers the details from his two recent articles reporting on the impact of political polarization on nonprofit fundraising. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: Influencing Young America To Act Derrick Feldmann returns to discuss the takeaways of this study, revealing the causes, actions and influences that move young Americans. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: The 40 Laws Of Nonprofit Impact We can’t hit all of them, but that’s the title of Derik Timmerman’s book. He’s got advice like “give to gain,” “hire with ruthless selectivity,” “win while you’re sleeping,” and “eat last … Continue reading →
This Week: Tribute To Michael Davidson Michael Davidson died last week. The show is a replay of his last guest appearance, from October 18, 2021. Michael was on with his co-author, Brian Saber, and we talked about their book, “Engaged … Continue reading →
This Week: Legal Outlook For 2022 Gene Takagi returns for a mix of checklist items and emerging trends. It’s a good time to look big picture at your HR investments, corporate docs and financials. Also, what to look out for … Continue reading →
This Week: Nonprofit Software Vulnerability With log4j Happy New Year! There’s a software risk gaining attention and there’s a good chance you’ll need help diagnosing and repairing it. You don’t need to horde gas, cash and toilet paper. Just be … Continue reading →
This Week: Social Media Outlook For 2022 Charrosé King-Mathews reveals what to look for in the New Year around platform evolution and content trends in the social networks. She’s an instructor in communications at Howard University. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: Zombie Loyalists Peter Shankman is a 5x best selling author, entrepreneur and corporate keynote speaker. His book “Zombie Loyalists” focuses on customer service; creating rabid fans who do your social media, marketing and PR for you. This is … Continue reading →
This Week: Is A Social Enterprise For You? What are these and how do you decide whether to take one on—or even consider it—at your nonprofit? What kinds of businesses lend themselves to social enterprise and how do you structure … Continue reading →
This Week: Purpose Driven Marketing Stu Swineford reveals the principles and pillars of purpose driven marketing that will keep your donors engaged and wanting to support your mission. He’s co-author of the ebook, “Mission Uncomfortable.” There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: How Much To Spend On Ads In 2022 “The Nonprofit Advertising Benchmark Study” will help you decide what’s the right amount for you to spend on advertising if you want to be comparable to your peers. At the … Continue reading →
This Week: Bitcoin & The Future Of Fundraising That’s the new book by Anne Connelly and Jason Shim. They share the potential in cryptocurrency donations and explain simply, how to get started. Private keys; public keys; wallets; and exchanges. It’s … Continue reading →
This Week: Strategic Plan. Done. Now Pay For It. It’s a common challenge. The strategic plan is ambitious, but there’s not enough revenue to fund all the future excitement. Sherry Quam Taylor returns to get to the root problems that … Continue reading →
This Week: Risk Management II Gene Takagi returns to complete our coverage of the risks lurking in your employee relations; facilities; events; and vehicles. Also, what to do to keep those risks at a minimum, so incidents don’t hurt your … Continue reading →
This Week: The Time For Endowment Building Is Now That’s Deborah Kaplan Polivy’s new book. She’s with me to explain why that title is a simple truth. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: Engaged Boards Will Fundraise Michael Davidson, the board coach, and Brian Saber from Asking Matters, have teamed up to write the book that reveals how to get your board to fundraise: Engage them. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: Next Year’s Plan For Your Year-End Donors We’re in the 4th quarter and you’re expecting a lot of fundraising revenue. You want those donors with you next year and beyond. Poonam Prasad has the strategies to make that … Continue reading →
This Week: Risk Management I You want to keep your nonprofit safe. To help you, Gene Takagi starts a 2-part mini-series on risk management. We kick off with indemnification. It sounds boring. But it’s a word with great significance for … Continue reading →
This Week: “The Activist” Activates Activism Amy Sample Ward returns for a conversation about CBS’s proposed show “The Activist,” the backlash that ensued, the replacement show, competition, celebrity, and our proposal for an inclusive and appropriate media portrayal of true … Continue reading →
This Week: Your Dismantling Racism Journey Starting with your people, your culture and your leadership, how do you identify, talk about and begin to break down inequitable structures in your nonprofit? My guest is Pratichi Shah, founder & CEO at … Continue reading →
This Week: Effective Fundraising That’s Warren McFarlan’s new book. It’s written for potential board members, but it’s a valuable study for those on the ground, doing the work. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: Turn Followers Into Donors Adora Drake has a strategy for converting your social media followers into donors. Let’s hear what it’s all about. Her digital marketing company and coaching practice is Adora Drake Marketing. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: Decolonizing Wealth Edgar Villanueva’s book, “Decolonizing Wealth,” takes an innovative look at the purpose of wealth. His thesis is that the solutions to the damage and trauma caused by American capitalism, including philanthropy—can be gleaned from the values … Continue reading →
This Week: How We Got Here It’s the story of the unpredictable trajectory that led to today’s U.S. nonprofit sector. How did we come to be what we are? The story is told by Dr. Robert Penna, author of the … Continue reading →
This Week: Virtual Events Evan Briggs and Gwenn Cagann share their lessons from 25 virtual galas, which include takeaways for your next hybrid event. They’re both with Wingo NYC. Design For Non-Designers Wrapping up our 21NTC coverage, it’s a crash … Continue reading →
This Week: Performance Improvement Do you want to get the best out of your teams? That means getting the best from each player. Heather Burright recommends 360 Degree Feedback and she takes you full circle. She’s CEO of Skill Masters … Continue reading →
This Week: The Surprising Gift Of Doubt That’s Marc Pitman’s new book. It’s stuffed with strategies to help leaders—and future leaders—lead better. Marc is founder of Concord Leadership Group. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This Week: 12 New Donor Qs & Train Like A Champ It’s been so long since Andy Robinson was a guest, we need to cover two topics together. First, a dozen potential questions to ask your donor who just said … Continue reading →
This Week: 550th Show! It’s Nonprofit Radio’s 11th Anniversary and 550th show! To celebrate, we’ve got the whole gang together. Claire Meyerhoff, our creative producer, co-hosts. We have live music from Scott Stein, composer of our theme music, Cheap Red … Continue reading →
This Week: Your Fun Volunteer Program As our 21NTC coverage continues, Liza Dyer and Corina Sadler share their stories of transforming volunteering from in-person to off-site. Then they share their lessons. Liza is at Multnomah County Library and Corina is … Continue reading →
This Week: Your 5-Point, 1-Hour Legal Audit Gene Takagi returns! He walks you through five quick checks of your nonprofit’s documents, processes and status, to make sure you’re on the right side of the law. Gene is our legal contributor … Continue reading →
This Week: Center Equity & Tech In Your Hiring, Retention & Training Amy Sample Ward returns for a valuable, fun conversation that starts with the #ShowTheSalary campaign and winds into technology strategies for treating your staff like adults and learners. … Continue reading →
This Week: Movement Messaging Expanding on the partnership theme two weeks ago, consider building a movement with orgs outside your direct mission. You’ll want cohesive, effective messaging and that’s where Hannah Thomas and Morgan Fletcher can help. Hannah is with … Continue reading →
This Week: CRM Selection As part of our continuing 21NTC coverage, Rubin Singh returns to help you focus on what matters in CRM selection. To keep you safe from a serious misstep, he also shares his thoughts on what else … Continue reading →
This Week: Nonprofit Partnerships Our 21NTC panel reminds you: You don’t have to do your work alone. You can increase your exposure by promoting the work of other orgs, and even fundraise in partnership with other nonprofits. They’re Taylor Leake … Continue reading →
This Week: BFD: Board Financials Dilemma What do you do for board members who can’t read your balance sheet? The authors of “The Board Member’s Easier Than You Think Guide To Nonprofit Finances” can answer that. Andy Robinson and Nancy … Continue reading →
This Week: Overcome Your Fear Of Public Speaking We’d rather face death or the dentist, we’d rather talk about money or sex, than have to speak to an audience, even a small one. Laurie Krauz can help you overcome your … Continue reading →
This Week: Your Partnerships With FGWs First Generation Wealth creators have different values and mindsets than those who inherited their wealth. And FGWs far outnumber the inheritors. Esther Choy’s research will help you understand these folks and how to build … Continue reading →
This Week: Online Meetings For All Cindy Leonard and John Kenyon continue our 21NTC coverage, with strategies and tips to make your virtual meetings accessible and inclusive. They’re with Cindy Leonard Consulting and he’s with John Kenyon Consulting. Online Accessibility … Continue reading →
This Week: Improve Your Email Engagement Do you know that a big email list may be worse than a smaller one? Have you got ghosts or zombies in your lists? This all matters if you want your emails to land … Continue reading →
This Week: Prepare To Tell Future Impact Stories My guests from 21NTC want you to invest in technology, so you have the outcome and impact data you need to tell great stories. They’re Stephanie Fast and Jeff Melando, both from … Continue reading →
This Week: Team Care Susan Comfort wants you to go beyond self care, which gets a lot of attention, to team care. Yes, take care of yourself, but then look after your team. She’s founder of Nonprofit Wellness, and part … Continue reading →
This Week: Build Lasting Supporter Relationships Craig Grella and Wendy Levine, both from Salsa Labs, want you to build strong relationships all the time, not only when you’re fundraising. Their savvy strategies come from their own work building relationships for … Continue reading →
This Week: Gender Inclusivity 101 Our 21NTC coverage continues with a convo that started out talking about gender-inclusive data, and includes a lot of best practices around that. But it broadened into a primer on inclusivity generally. It’s 2021! It’s … Continue reading →
This Week: Cure Communications Gaffes Our 21NTC coverage begins by explaining what to do after you put the wrong gala date in an email, or send a letter to the wrong segment. Might an intentional mistake improve open your open … Continue reading →
This Week: Build Your Best Better Board Gene Takagi returns! He’s got strategies to help you build the diverse, effective, thoughtful, appropriately-sized, well-trained board you deserve. He’s our legal contributor and managing attorney of NEO, the Nonprofit and Exempt Organizations … Continue reading →
This Week: Relationships With Funders There’s too much transactionalism and not enough relationship building between nonprofits and their institutional funders. Are you a transactionalist? Do you want to walk toward the light of relationship fundraising with foundations and corporations? Shavonn … Continue reading →
This Week: Domestic Terrorism And Your Nonprofit Insurrection at the US Capitol. Insurrection by redditers against hedge funds. Our nonprofit community is also at risk of domestic terrorism, regardless of mission. What are those risks and what can you do … Continue reading →
This Week: Leadership For Strategic Execution There’s lots of talk about strategic planning. Lots of time and money devoted to ambitious plans—which often sit on a shelf. It takes leadership to drive strategic execution. What does that leadership look like? … Continue reading →
This Week: Listen Closely If you want to know what folks are thinking, interested in and motivated by, you need to listen to your donors, volunteers, advocates, employees. How do you get to the answers to listen to? Emily Taylor … Continue reading →
This Week: Adversaries Into Allies It can be advantageous to work with people and causes on the other side. Leah Garcés shares her experience and advice. She’s author of the book, “Grilled: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken … Continue reading →
This Week: Opera Singer to Fundraiser Yolanda F. Johnson’s classical opera training informs her fundraising practice. She’s the founder and president of YFJ Consulting and the first African-American president of Women in Development, NY. She’s with us for the hour. … Continue reading →
This Week: Communications Trends Report Kivi Leroux Miller returns to share her 11th annual, Nonprofit Communications Trends Report, released just last week. She walks us through the impact of the pandemic, the resurgence of email, email best practices, CALM, leading … Continue reading →
This Week: Peer-To-Peer For 2021 David Hessekiel returns with a look at this year’s P2P prospects. But not before a survey of the P2P carnage that was 2020. There are distinct opportunities for 2021 and David shares the collective advice … Continue reading →
This Week: The Hot Sauce Principle With a catchy book title like that, how could I call the show anything else? The author, Brandon Smith, shares his wisdom and advice on applying hot sauce in your career and at home. … Continue reading →
This Week: PPP 2.0 Gene Takagi returns with the ins-and-outs of the second round of Paycheck Protection Program help for your nonprofit. He’s our legal contributor and managing attorney at NEO, the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations law group. There’s more … Continue reading →
This Week: New Year, New Charity Navigator The rating site Charity Navigator has taken on impact reporting and vastly expanded the number of nonprofits evaluated. What does all this mean for your nonprofit? How do you get in on CN’s … Continue reading →
This Week: Zombie Loyalists Peter Shankman is a 5x best selling author, entrepreneur and corporate keynote speaker. His book “Zombie Loyalists” focuses on customer service; creating rabid fans who do your social media, marketing and PR for you. This is … Continue reading →
This Week: Your Annual Report As Marketing Channel You’re producing an annual report, why not make it less boring and more engaging? Why not make it digital? Josh Kligman and Jeff Rum show you how. They’re from Yearly. Project Management … Continue reading →
This Week: Virtual Event Engagement Virtual events are routine now and there’s good reason to believe they’ll outlive the pandemic. We’ve got you covered with pre-, intra- and post-event strategies to maximize engagement and raise more money. Our panel is … Continue reading →
Special Episode: Adult Learning To be the change around racism and white privilege, we’re going to have to create and learn new beliefs, systems, processes, and behaviors. So let’s learn how we adults learn. Nico Chin is our teacher. She’s … Continue reading →
This Week: How To Work In Uncertainty A June study of nonprofits has lessons for now and our future. The election may be settled, but there are unknowns afoot: the pandemic; reaction to the election; a divided federal government; federal … Continue reading →
This Week: Boards And Asking Styles Brian Saber returns with his new book, “Boards And Asking Styles.” Your board’s Rainmakers, Go-Getters, Kindred Spirits and Mission Controllers all need to work with each other, your CEO and your staff. Brian shepherds … Continue reading →
This Week: Mommy Lied To God That’s Carlos Maestas’ new book. He’s a storysmith and he’s got tips and strategies to improve your storytelling. He’s the founder of Key Ideas. What’s this got to do with Mr. Rogers Neighborhood? Come … Continue reading →
This Week: Virtual Volunteering During the resurging pandemic—and after—there are smart ways to keep your volunteers engaged virtually. What’s this got to do with the movie, “Miracle on 34th Street?” Elizabeth Neufeld shares her thinking. She’s CEO and founder of … Continue reading →
Special Episode: Tech Equity NTEN has a new guide on equity for nonprofit technology, to deepen the racial equity conversation. To explore and reveal intersecting inequities between technology and nonprofits. You know who my guest is. You know who it … Continue reading →
This Week: SEO For Your Fundraising Campaign Our 20NTC panel helps you build your online community and increase engagement with 3 SEO strategies: keywords research; competitor analysis; and, content writing. They’re Michelle Frechette and Amanda Gorman, both from GiveWP. Rebrand … Continue reading →
This Week: End Of Year Fundraising Jen Frazier talks you through. What do you want in your workplan? How does the pandemic impact your strategy? It’s a comprehensive convo for your 4th quarter. She’s founder of Firefly Partners. There’s more … Continue reading →
This Week: Your Leadership Pipeline Dennis Miller returns to encourage you to identify and develop future leaders in your nonprofit. He explains what goes into your leadership development plan. He’s president of Dennis C. Miller Associates. True Consultant Love If … Continue reading →
Special Episode: POC Underrepresented In Nonprofit Leadership The willingness and skills of people of color aren’t represented in leadership circles. That’s the main message coming out of Building Movement Project’s report, “Race To Lead Revisited.” We visit the report’s conclusions … Continue reading →
This week: Decolonizing Wealth Edgar Villanueva’s book, “Decolonizing Wealth,” takes an innovative look at the purpose of wealth. His thesis is that the solutions to the damage and trauma caused by American capitalism—including philanthropy—can be gleaned from the values and … Continue reading →
This week: Get Heard In A Time Of Info Fatigue Organic reach and engagement are down on Facebook and other social networks. So how do you get your marketing messages through? Julia Campbell shares her expert advice. She’s principal of … Continue reading →
This week: Text More Volunteer training. Board work. Continuing ed. You can do all these and more by texting, with its high open and engagement rates. Our 20NTC panel explains how. They’re Ann Marie Ronsman and Alli Stephens, both with … Continue reading →
This week: Google Ad Grants These are generous grants, up to $10,000 per month. What do you need in place to take advantage of the grants? How do you get in? What are best practices? Plus advice on 3-year-old tantrums … Continue reading →
This week: Donor Surveys Make the most of the donors you have by discovering their potential through surveying. Crystal Mahon and Christian Robillard talk principles, best practices and goal setting. Crystal is with STARS Air Ambulance and Christian is at … Continue reading →
This week: 500th Show! It’s Nonprofit Radio’s 10th Anniversary and 500th show! It’s also our last live stream. After today, we’ll be podcast only. To celebrate all these milestones, we’ve got the whole gang together. Claire Meyerhoff, our creative producer, … Continue reading →
This week: Black Philanthropy Month BPM 2020, in August, examines how all forms of funding can advance the economic justice so essential to achieve racial equity. My guests are BPM founder, Jacqueline Copeland, and co-architect Valaida Fullwood. Collaborations: MOU To … Continue reading →
This week: Mindfulness, Happiness, Well-Being Apps From 20NTC, a survey of apps to help you increase resilience, work-life balance and calmness. My guests are Beth Kanter, master trainer, and Meico Whitlock, The Mindful Techie. Apps, Tools, Tactics More 20NTC panelists … Continue reading →
This week: Digital Accessibility How to make your digital products more accessible. Think data visualization, color choices, alternative text, screen readers and more. Laura Patch from Sierra Club reveals the details. (Part of our 20NTC coverage) Inclusive Design Nic Steenhout … Continue reading →
Special Episode: Your Dismantling Racism Journey Starting with your people, your culture and your leadership, how do you identify, talk about and begin to break down inequitable structures in your nonprofit? My guest is Pratichi Shah, founder & CEO at … Continue reading →
This week: Thought Leadership Peter Panapento and Antionette Kerr co-authored the book, “Modern Media Relations for Nonprofits.” They share their insights on how to build relationships with journalists so you get heard as the thought leader you are. Plus other … Continue reading →
This week: Improv For Culture And Creativity A performer and a board member from Washington Improv Theater teach us how improvisation can make your team more creative, confident, supportive and successful. They’re Krystal Ramseur and Graziella Jackson. Tech Policies Karen … Continue reading →
This week: WŌC Women Of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy is a new online community. Founder Yolanda Johnson returns to explain what it’s all about. Life & Career Lessons Alex Counts has over 30 years in social entrepreneurship. He returns … Continue reading →
This week: A Better Website: 52 Tweaks In 52 Weeks Chris Tuttle and Dominique Hernandez reveal lots of small tweaks for your site to increase constitutent reach, engagement and actions taken. They promise they’re each less than an hour to … Continue reading →
Special Episode: Starting The Racism Conversation The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on Memorial Day, May 25th, has incited 14 days of protests and calls for reform of structural racism. Racism and white privilege, after 401 years of … Continue reading →
This week: Don’t Get Played By The Product Demo We’ve all watched in awe as the cursor flies across the screens of a demonstration. Nine months later we’re scratching our heads. “They made it look so easy back then.” Get … Continue reading →
This week: Fundraising 401 That’s Laurence Pagnoni’s latest book. It’s a series of masterclasses for all levels and a collection of revelations he’s gained over 35 years in nonprofit management and fundraising. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
Easy AI
Artificial Intelligence is an opportunity for your career, not a threat to your job. Nejeed Kassam explains how to leverage your skills in a new landscape and describes some of the intelligent tools available for you to work with. He’s CEO of Keela. (Part of our 20NTC coverage)
Impact Storytelling
How can technology help you share your impact with the right people at the right time? How do you distill your big story down to a small, comprehensible, individual story? Tim Sarrantonio is with Neon One. (Also part of our 20NTC coverage)
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
Leadership
In two recent shows, guests agreed that Amy Sample Ward represents a shining example of vulnerable leadership. So who better to speak to about leadership—whether in a crisis or not? She’s CEO of NTEN and our technology and social media contributor.
Donor Advised Funds
Let’s relieve the misery of DAFs. There may be a lot you cannot find, but you’re not helpless. Maria Semple has advice and resources for finding and reaching the funds. She’s our prospect research contributor and The Prospect Finder.
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
Data Privacy Practices
Let’s have a romp through the fields of data privacy and cybersecurity, musing as we frolic on just how important the right practices and policies are to your nonprofit. My guest is Jon Dartley, Of Counsel at Perlman+Perlman law firm.
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
Special Episode:
Reopening From Coronavirus
My guest is attorney Lisa Brauner. We see the faint light at the end of the tunnel. We’re slowly emerging as we knew we would. But these things must be done delicately. What do you plan ahead for? How do you keep employees safe and can they refuse to return to work? What are reasonable accommodations? Lisa has answers. Lisa has advice. Lisa is a partner at Perlman+Perlman law firm in New York City.
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
Special Episode:
Planned Giving
What can you do for your Planned Giving donors in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic? Something very meaningful and appreciated. Tony is alone for this short episode.
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
Real Estate
How have markets been impacted by the pandemic? What do you need to think about before your next move and when should you start your thinking? Jane Brody is executive director at Vicus Partners.
Racial-Equity DEI
Tristan Penn shares how Coronavirus has disproportionately hurt Black and Indigenous people. We also talk about dismantling white power structures that you may not realize exist inside your nonprofit. Tristan is NTEN’s community engagement and equity manager. (This is part of our 20NTC coverage.)
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
**5 Questions
Heather Yandow’s article is “5 Questions to Answer Before You Call a Consultant,” and she’ll help you avoid making a costly mistake. She’s founder of Nonprofit.ist.
Working Virtually
We talk through the issues encountered when managing remote staff: technological; generational; emotional; measurement; recruiting and retaining. Our panel is Heather Martin from Interfaith Family and Alice Hendricks with Jackson River. (Originally aired 11/2/18)
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
**Be A Disrupter
Chris Field has been disrupting since he ran for mayor at age 19. His book, “Disrupting For Good,” tells the stories of unheralded, disrupting folks from age 5 to 77. And encourages you to do the same. Thankfully, he’s with me for the hour. He’s the perfect guest to round out our Innovators Series.
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
Turbocharge Your Grants Fundraising
John Hicks returns with 9 steps that will burn the tires off your grants program. He’s principal and founder of DLBHICKS LLC consulting. (Originally aired February 23, 2018)
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
Special Episode: Coronavirus & Team Care
Susan Comfort & Mo Abdullah can help your team prevent burnout, increase effectiveness and resilience and stay healthy, productive and joyful. Even today. Susan is founder of Nonprofit Wellness and Mo is founder of Culture Energized. (Part of our virtual #20NTC coverage)
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
Special Episode: Coronavirus & Leadership
Listen with compassion. Trust. Be vulnerable. Leaders, bring your heart and your curiosity forward and you can overcome any team challenge. Even today’s. My guests are Lorraine Gordon, principal at Lead With Heart, and Catherine Hyde, senior director of digital engagement for Enterprise Community Partners. (Part of our virtual #20NTC coverage)
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
Special Episode: Nonprofits & CARES Act
The CARES Act was passed late last week. We’re recording on Friday, April 3rd. There are benefits in the Act that nonprofits can take advantage of. Benefits for your org and your staff. And they’re pretty good. So you may want to apply. Plus, longer term relief for nonprofit fundraising. Gene Takagi explains it all. He’s our legal contributor and principal of NEO, the Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations law group.
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
Build Your Grantmaker Relationships
Our panel of grantmakers and a grantee reveal savvy strategies for building and maintaining relationships with your institutional funders. Foundations are made of people. How do you get close to them? This is a panel I moderated at The Foundation Center in New York City. Back when there was a The Foundation Center. It’s now Candid.org. (Originally aired February 16, 2018)
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com
This week:
Special Episode: Coronavirus Communications
Our third Special Episode features Sarah Durham, CEO of Big Duck. Amidst our pandemic, when’s the right timing for the right messages to the right audiences? She also explains her 5 principles of tone and style.
There’s more at tonymartignetti.com