Livelihood Show

Nonprofit leaders know that solving pervasive social problems requires passion and creativity as well as tangible results. The The Non Nonprofit: For-Profit Thinking for Nonprofit Success shares the same business principles that drive the world's best companies, showing how they can (and should) be applied to the realm of nonprofits. Steve Rothschild personally crossed sectors when he left corporate America to found Twin Cities RISE!, a highly successful poverty reduction program. His honest story, and success and missteps, create an essential road map for any social venture looking to prove and boost its impact.

The Non Nonprofit: For-Profit Thinking for Nonprofit Success can help maximize the positive impact of any nonprofit.

• Distils essential nonprofit principles such as having a clear and appropriate purpose, creating economic value from social benefit, and establishing mutual accountability
• Shares successful approaches from innovative organizations such as Grameen Bank, Playworks, Common Ground, Community Solutions, Habitat for Humanity, Lumni, Caring Bridge, College Summit and Twin Cities RISE!
• Draws from the author's success in founding and building Twin Cities RISE!, which trains unemployed Minnesotans for living wage jobs. Twin Cities RISE! serves 1,500 participants each year

The Miami Book Fair is a place for bringing new ideas, and the book that Ken Tucker has written with Kevin Ford called The Leadership Triangle, Three Gifts that Will Change the Way you Lead, does just that. Ken begins the book with an interesting challenge. He says if you're not making progress solving the problem you're facing, you're probably trying to solve the wrong problem. Ken tells us a little bit about what he means by that.

Could there be an energy crisis in our professional and personal lives? In science, energy is defined as the capacity to do work. We all know it is important to renew our energy levels so that we have the capacity to accomplish our everyday tasks. When we are all work and no renewal our energy and our ability to do work stalls.

Our guests, Charles McFall and Mordant Mahon, call themselves Success Freaks, Success Ninjas and Comedic Motivational Speakers. They have some energizing ideas that can help us build capacity for sustainable achievement using focus, honesty and laughter.

To learn more about Charles and Mordant, check out their website here, and to buy their book, Success Freaks Guide to Dream Hunting, click here.

What do you get when you combine philanthropy with a festival? Philanthro-fest.

Philanthrofest is an all day outdoor Miami street festival promoting over 100 organizations, with causes ranging from Guitars over Guns Organization, also known as G.O.G.O. to Americans for Immigrant Justice to urban gardens producing fresh produce in the inner city.

Remember the intensity of locking eyes across a crowded room? Diana Daffner and her husband Richard do, and they believe that this "simultaneous energy exchange" is how couples deepen their connection to each other.

Kat Albrecht was an experienced police officer, cross trained in search and rescue procedures. One day her partner—a bloodhound named A.J. —went missing. He wasn't "just a dog"- with years of training and experience, he was a valuable asset to the search and rescue team. Anyone who has partnered with a working dog, and anyone who has bonded with a pet as a member of their family, knows that the connection between people and their animals is strong.

How would you know if the contact for your next great opportunity happened to be living across the street? How would someone who is looking for someone just like you realize that you are sitting just two tables away at Starbucks?

According to a recent report by the BMO Retirement Institute, 61% of Americans own a pet. Of these pet 'owners", 87% consider pets to be a "family member", and 77% feel it's important to make arrangements for their ongoing care in the event that their pet outlives them. But surveys show that only one-third of pet owners have actually made some kind of estate planning provision for them.

For many couples, the bond they have with their pets turns out to be more enduring than the one they made with their spouse or domestic partner. When a couple breaks up, what becomes of their dog, cat, horse or rabbit? If courts and attorneys get involved, the only certainties are high stress and high cost.

Meet Dennis Kalodish and Alicia Chipy who train and partner with therapy dogs. Therapy dogs are professional visitors, making their rounds in hospitals, nursing homes and rehab centers. Dennis Kalodish parleyed his love for golden retrievers into a project in which he trains and certifies them to become "everyone's pet" in nursing home visitors.. and even to serve as library reading partners. Dennis trains dogs through Therapy Dogs International. Please give a listen to this week's interesting episode.