Ep 79: How a Film Festival Impacts Community Building (with Evelyn Colbert)
Learn more about the birth of a film festival and the superpower of this type of non profit in building community.
Ep 78: What Nonprofits Can Learn from Tech Start-ups (with Ann Mei)
Organizations of all kinds know they must innovate or die out. But this word causes nonprofit leaders to break out in cold sweats. Why?
Ep 77: Navigating the Tension Between Development and Communications (with Steve Ralls)
Learn more about common tensions between Development and Communications and whether merging them under one umbrella works or muddies the water.
Ep 76: The 4 Obstacles to a Diverse Board
I believe there are 4 primary obstacles to building a diverse board. In this episode, I explain what they are and I’ll tell you exactly how you can overcome them.
Ep 75: What’s Your One Big 2019 Goal?
Name a big goal you have for the coming year. That’s what I asked more than a dozen nonprofit leaders. Here’s what they told me.
Ep 74: Good People, Hidden Biases, and Navigating Your Blind Spots (with Anthony Greenwald)
You’re a nonprofit person, so you probably want to change hearts and minds, but your blind spots may be getting in the way.
Ep 73: The Arc of a Successful Capital Campaign (with Eric Javier)
You need to make a huge leap in your nonprofit. And so you require a significant amount of money in a certain period of time. You may need a capital campaign.
Ep 72: Successful Year End Fundraising (with Gail Perry)
We’ve reached prime-time giving season, and I have some good news. It’s absolutely not too late to exceed your goals, no matter where you currently are in your process.
Ep 71: A Smart Nonprofit Budgeting Process (with Hilda Polanco)
Is your nonprofit budgeting process a royal pain or a living, breathing plan for your leaders to determine your organization’s priorities?
Ep 70: Unicorns, Superheroes and Nonprofit Leaders (With Vu Le)
It’s a bird, it’s a plane… no, it’s a nonprofit leader. The work you do matters more than you know and more than anyone will ever tell you.
Ep 69: New Power and the Building of Movements (with Henry Timms)
Giving Tuesday, #MeToo, the Ice Bucket Challenge, the out-of-nowhere victories of Obama and Trump… They all have something important in common – they were movements forged by “New Power”.
Ep 68: No, You Can’t Do It All
How do you take care of yourself and still be responsible to your organization and the people you serve?