By Brooke Richie-Babbage
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As we wrap up the year, it’s the perfect time to reflect and prepare for a successful 2025. In this episode, I share five key questions to guide your annual fundraising planning. These aren’t just surface-level prompts—they’re designed to help you align your goals, strategies, and systems to ensure your nonprofit thrives in the year ahead. Whether you’re a seasoned leader or just starting out, these questions will challenge you to think deeply about how you approach fundraising and set your organization up for long-term impact.
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In this episode, I share 10 crucial questions that every nonprofit leader should ask to make sure that your organization is set up for resilience, clarity, and impact in the year ahead. The questions in this checklist focus on aligning your goals with your long-term vision, assessing team capacity, and preparing for possible shifts in the external environment. You’ll walk away with a solid plan for creating a balanced, realistic plan that not only supports growth but also builds the strength of your organization from the inside out.
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In this audio workshop, I pull back the curtain on the core elements that successful 7-figure nonprofits consistently point to as the reason they were able to grow to and sustain 7-figures - without burning out!
By the end of the workshop, you’ll know what it takes to scale and how to begin to integrate these elements into your own growth plans.
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We’ve all felt the frustration of having too much to do and not enough time to do it. As nonprofit leaders, this overwhelm can keep us from focusing on high-impact work. In this episode, I introduce the Focus Filter Framework—a straightforward 4-step process to help you clear away distractions, prioritize tasks that align with your goals, and take control of your calendar. By breaking down your task list, aligning it with your goals, and making realistic time decisions, you can regain control and focus on transformational work instead of getting lost in the weeds. It’s all about strategic prioritization. Tune in to learn how to simplify your to-do list and get more done without the constant stress.
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At some point in your nonprofit's growth, you’ll realize that the team that got you this far might not be the one to take you to the next level. In this episode, I walk you through the crucial steps to move from the team you have to the team you need, so your organization can scale successfully. We’ll unpack how to rework your current team, add capacity where it’s needed, and avoid the common mistake of treating these two strategies as one. By the end of this episode, you'll know how to assess, map, prune, and plan your team for smoother, more strategic growth.
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One of the biggest challenges growing nonprofits face is plateauing—doing all the right things but not breaking through to the next level of impact and funding. In this episode, I talk about the core reason behind this: a lack of strategic alignment. I explain why organizations need to align three critical elements—strategic direction, a true cost financial roadmap, and a revenue model. When these pillars work together, nonprofits can achieve the kind of growth that’s both sustainable and impactful. Tune in to learn the keys to creating that alignment and avoid common mistakes that keep nonprofits stuck.
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In this special episode, I join Rhea Wong on her podcast to talk about the wild ride that is being a nonprofit Executive Director. We talk about how strange 2024 has been, what to do when the fear of failure - or actual failure - stops you in your tracks, and we offer some concrete strategies for making the coming year your best yet!
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In this episode, I explore the concept of generative governance and why it’s a game-changer for nonprofit boards looking to enhance their strategic role. Too often, boards get stuck in the weeds, focusing on operational details rather than long-term, mission-critical questions. I break down the differences between operational and generative governance, explaining when and how your board can make the shift. By focusing on big-picture strategy, nonprofit boards can navigate new challenges, foster innovation, and ensure mission alignment, all while leaving the day-to-day operations to staff. Tune in to learn how to elevate your board’s impact as a true strategic partner.
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Links Mentioned: Stages of Board Governance Cheatsheet (brookerichiebabbage.com/boardstages)
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In this episode, I tackle a common but risky misconception: the idea that nonprofits can simply replicate the success of other organizations by copying their strategies. The reality is that applying the same tactics from a $2M organization to a $600K one can be a costly mistake. I’ll guide you through why understanding your organization’s unique growth journey is critical for achieving sustainable impact without burning out your team.
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This conversation is with Ana Polanco, international ancestral coach and cultural facilitator.
This month I’m doing a mini-series called Lessons from COVID that are still relevant today. Pulling together collections of conversations that I had with sector leaders called the Next Normal. We were deep in the days of COVID, and heading into a difficult election season, and everything felt fraught and difficult. And no one knew what our organizations and our work and our sector would look like on the other end of it all.
Now, here we are 4 summers later, and we’re starting to see which shifts stuck and which learnings from those difficult times actually reshaped how we operate together and as a sector. We saw that there are some fundamental questions and truths - about community, leadership, partnerships and sustainability - that endure.
I’m bringing you snippets of conversations that illuminate some of those questions and truths.
Lessons from COVID Part 1: Conversations With A Funder: Building Sustainable Organizations: Essential Questions For Leaders
Lessons from COVID Part 2: Shaking Hierarchies & Building Powerful Communities
Lessons from COVID Part 3: Harnessing The Power of Collaboration
Want to work together?
Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Accelerator, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations that want a smart, powerful playbook for taking their growing organization to the next level.
Join The Collective, a community of practice for nonprofit leaders who want to build and strengthen the organizational pillars that drive growth!
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The podcast currently has 202 episodes available.