In this episode, Janice Cunning and Michelle Maloy Dillon talk with Paul Nazareth, Vice President of Education and Development at the Canadian Association of Gift Planners (CAGP). We talk about how creating your own personal board of directors can support your career growth. This board goes beyond the usual mentor role and can include peers, [...]

In this episode, Janice Cunning and Margaret Katz Cann talk with Nneka Allen, Camila Pereira, and Nicole Salmon about their new book, Collecting Courage. We explore how they began collecting the stories of black fundraisers, and the ways those stories are about their joy, pain, freedom, and love — and how they experience success and [...]

The whole Fundraising Leadership team gathers for this final episode of 2020. David Langiulli, Janice Cunning, Margaret Katz Cann, and Michelle Maloy Dillon are grateful that our work gives us a unique perspective on the nonprofit sector. We reflect on themes that we saw emerge this year and how coaching and personal development work supported [...]

In this episode, Margaret Katz Cann and Janice Cunning talk with Emily Capelle, Principal Consultant for EJC Consulting, LLC. We explore how some small and mid-sized organizations are making mistakes with this year s specific pressures. And ideas to help overcome these challenges. Emily invites our listeners to ask the question, if your organization didn t exist, [...]

In this episode, Janice Cunning talks with Joenita Paulrajan, PhD. who leads the Equity and Inclusion program at UBC Extended Learning (The University of British Columbia). Janice and Joenita talk about diversity, inclusion, and how organizations can create pathways to greater equity. Joenita offers listeners some key questions that they can ask across different levels [...]

In this episode, David Langiulli and Janice Cunning talk with Nicole Salmon, Founder and Principal at Boundless Philanthropy. We examine how organizations can really put their values into action. We cover a range of topics from values, virtues, courage, diversity, and learning. Nicole offers a powerful question to help you reflect on whether your values [...]

In this episode, Janice Cunning talks with Mariya Yurukova, President and CEO of Charity Search Group. Mariya shares five important ideas to help you get ready to take the plunge into a senior leadership role. She challenges listeners to set up those Zoom coffee dates and expand your network by meeting 2-3 new people. You [...]

In this episode, Janice Cunning and Margaret Katz Cann talk with Isabel Pérez-Doherty, Director of Philanthropy and Strategic Impact at YWCA Canada. Isabel describes her unique journey to discovering her values and how looking in the shadows helped her grow as a leader. Isabel invites listeners to carve out time to focus on their own [...]

In this short bonus episode, Janice Cunning and Margaret Katz Cann talk with Laura Champion. Laura, Chair of AFP Toronto’s NOT Congress, shares how her team took a 1000 person event virtual. We discuss the emotional journey and how the team created from the chaos to envision a new event. Lots of lessons that nonprofits [...]

In this episode, David Langiulli and Michelle Maloy Dillon speak with Susannah Gal, Professor at Penn State University, about why NOW is the time to work on your mental fitness. Susannah shares her experience of participating in the Fundraising Leadership Mental Fitness Training Program when she was wrapping up a semester of teaching during the [...]