In episode 32 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Don Tebbe discussed include:

• How organizations can best manage transition
• Why it is important for the outgoing director to take care of themselves
• How boards might need to change to accommodate a transition

Guest Information: Don Tebbe is an organizational planning consultant and one of America's most experienced advisors on nonprofit CEO transition and leadership succession. He experienced, first-hand, the challenges of sustaining an organization and navigating leadership succession as a former nonprofit executive director and five-time interim CEO. Since 1993, he's helped hundreds of nonprofit leaders plan for and manage turnover in their chief executive positions. Don was one of the national thought leaders involved in an Annie E. Casey Foundation-sponsored project to develop better practices for nonprofit leadership succession. Many of the concepts and practices used by succession practitioners today originated with the Casey project. He is the author of Chief Executive Transitions: How to Hire & Support a Nonprofit CEO and The Nonprofit CEO Succession Roadmap: Your Guide for the Journey to Life's Next Chapter.

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• https://dontebbe.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/dontebbe/
• https://twitter.com/ceotransitions
• Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, The Hero's Farewell: What Happens When CEOs Retire
• Annie E Casey Foundation – Executive Transitions
• Center for Excellence in Nonprofits
• When a New Manager Takes Charge, John Garbarro
• Going Solo, Going Big

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In episode 31 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Sharon Anderson discussed include:

• What lobbying consists of and how organizations can get involved
• The constraints placed on lobbying and other ways to help
• The legislative process and why nonprofits have a lot to offer in the arena of public policy

Guest Information: Sharon Anderson has been engaged with nonprofit boards of directors in several capacities: president, member, interim executive director, and consultant. As CEO of Anderson & Associates, LLC, Sharon strengthens teams and organizations through personalized governance training, advocacy training, meeting facilitation, and project management. As a Licensed Consultant of the Standards for Excellence® program, Sharon has conducted Board excellence trainings. She has also designed and presented advocacy training for nonprofits through the Center for Nonprofit Advancement in Washington, DC. Anderson & Associates, LLC provided project management, meeting facilitation, and policy development services to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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• https://bolderadvocacy.org/
• https://www.nonprofitadvancement.org/vendors/anderson-associates-llc/
• https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/advocacy-vs-lobbying
• https://standardsforexcellence.org/Home-2/code

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In episode 30 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Hilary Marsh discussed include:

• What content creation and curation means and how they differ
• What content strategy entails and how to develop one
• Why trust across staff departments is so important to a cohesive content strategy

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Hilary Marsh is president and chief strategist of Content Company, a content and digital strategy consultancy and leading content strategy practitioner, mentor, speaker, and professor since 1999. She helps associations get better results from their content by improving their practices. Content Company's clients include the American Bar Association, American Medical Association, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Endocrine Society, Institute of Food Technologists, and ISPOR. Hilary oversaw the member website for the National Association of Realtors from 2005 to 2011. Hilary is a co-author of "Association Content Strategies for a Changing World" (ASAE Research Foundation, 2018), "Content Curation, Associations' Secret Weapon Against Information Overload" (self-published, 2020), and the "Leading Your Organization's Content Strategy" chapter in the 4th edition of Professional Practices in Association Management (ASAE, January 2021).

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilarymarsh/
• https://contentcompany.biz/
• https://twitter.com/hilarymarsh
• https://getmespark.com/wp-content/uploads/ContentCuration2020.pdf
• https://www.asaecenter.org/

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In the special 1-year anniversary episode of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, Carol Hamilton discussed the following:

• The benefits of doing strategic planning online and some downsides of in-person strategic planning
• How to plan in a VUCA world – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity
• How organizational culture persists in remote work

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In episode 28 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Peggy Hoffman discussed include:

• How local nonprofit chapters contribute to the larger organizations
• What implications the rise of online professional development has for local chapters.
• Why volunteers and chapters are the heart and soul of associations and yet a somewhat neglected aspect of working in a membership organization

Guest Information:Peggy Hoffman is president of Mariner Management, an association management company which is home to two associations and provides an array of support and training to associations and most importantly member volunteers. Peggy has provided training and counsel to dozens of global, national and local membership associations over the past 30 years. She often draws on her own team's research on volunteerism, member communities and association innovation. Peggy not only enjoys working with association volunteers but is an active volunteer for her professional association – including serving as a chapter past president – so she'll draw from experience on both levels. Read her full bio at MarinerManagement.com and connect with Peggy on Twitter @peggyhoffman or LinkedIn. And ask her about triathlons, dance or living with three sons.

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• https://marinermanagement.com/resource/white-paper/2021-06-30/creating-association-roi-through-volunteer-training-toolkit/
• https://marinermanagement.com/resource/white-paper/2019-10-22/2019-chapter-benchmarking-report/
• https://marinermanagement.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/pmhoffman/
• https://twitter.com/peggyhoffman

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In episode 27 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Carlyn Madden discussed include:

• Why small nonprofits can consider working with an executive search firm
• How to make your search for a new organizational leader as equitable as possible
• What aspiring future leaders need to do now to prepare for future executive leadership roles

Guest Information:Carlyn Madden helps nonprofits find new leaders. She is the CEO of Good Insight, a national executive search firm and governance consultancy that focuses on small nonprofits. Good Insight is committed to becoming an anti-racist search firm and she is a sought-after speaker and adviser on the nonprofit workforce's generational and demographic shifts. She comes to this work through philanthropy, beginning her career at The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, where she managed a portfolio of grants that spanned education, the arts, human services, and the environment.

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• https://good-insight.org/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlynmadden/
• https://twitter.com/carlynmadden
• Will We Get There Hire by Hire? By Jeanne Bell, Paola Cubias, and Byron Johnson https://www.compasspoint.org/sites/default/files/documents/Hire_by_Hire_Report.pdf
• https://www.compasspoint.org/sites/default/files/documents/Executive_Transition.pdf
• Articles about the glass cliff
• https://hbr.org/2011/01/how-women-end-up-on-the-glass-cliff
• https://www.vox.com/2018/10/31/17960156/what-is-the-glass-cliff-women-ceos

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In episode 26 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Sabrina Walker Hernandez discussed include:

• How to get comfortable with fundraising
• The breakdown of the fundraising process
• Why both introverts and extroverts make good fundraisers

Guest Information:Sabrina Walker Hernandez is the President & CEO of Supporting World Hope. She has over 25 years of experience in nonprofit management, fundraising, and leadership. One of Sabrina's greatest successes is that she increased operation revenue from $750,000 to $2.5 million over an 8-year period as well as being responsible for the planning and operations of a $12 million comprehensive capital campaign in the 3rd poorest county in the United States. She has also facilitated numerous workshops with hundreds of nonprofit professionals and is a master trainer for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Sabrina is certified in Nonprofit Management by Harvard Business School. She is an active community leader and volunteer in Edinburg, Texas where she is based.

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• https://www.facebook.com/groups/NonprofitProfessionalsExchange/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinawalkerhernandez/
• https://supportingworldhope.com/leadership/

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In episode 25 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Kristin Bradley-Bull discussed include:

• How strategic planning helps organizations and the people in them connect back to their "why"
• How organizations need to listen to the people in the communities they work in more intentionally

• The role of the sector in our economy and culture
• Why organizations need to be intentional about their support to new leaders of color that many groups are now hiring and promoting to CEO roles.

Guest Information:Kristin Bradley-Bull's tagline says it all: "Illuminating your vision. Extending your vast roots and branches to get there." She runs Roots to Canopy in Durham, NC. At Roots to Canopy, Kristin consults with non-profits to develop powerful strategies and plans – and to develop staff capacity to be wildly successful in making change in the world. She does the same in her coaching practice: supporting people to crystalize their vision and orient toward their North Star – as non-profit leaders and as humans. Kristin loves people, justice, organizations and movements, and transformation on all levels. Her background includes co-founding a training and leadership non-profit, being a full-time public health faculty member, and consulting (20 years+) with organizations ranging from multilaterals to grassroots social justice groups.

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/rootstocanopy/
• https://www.rootstocanopy.com/

The book mentioned during the show is Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant

Information on the size of the nonprofit sector in the US:

https://nccs.urban.org/publication/nonprofit-sector-brief-2019#the-nonprofit-sector-in-brief-2019

Divorcing White Supremacy Culture website http://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/

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In episode 24 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Bobbi Russell discussed include:

• Transitioning back to in person
• How nonprofits can make accommodations while working from home
• How investing in systems and organization can help in the long term

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Bobbi is an operations executive with 20+ years of experience working with nonprofit organizations. She launched her own practice in 2017 after working in a COO role for 10+ years. While similar systems and processes can work for many organizations, she sees success when organizations apply solutions that are customized to their culture. She's really good at understanding the human aspect of how any new system, tool, or process will integrate with an organization's culture. Earlier in her career, she worked in marketing, membership, strategic communications, and journalism. She has an undergraduate degree in English from Clarion University of PA and an MBA from George Washington University. Her non-work passions include her dog, craft beer, and writing parody songs to entertain friends and family.

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbi-russell-4a61793/

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In episode 23 of Nonprofit Mission: Impact, some of the topics that Carol and her guest, Elizabeth Engel discussed include:

• The significance of digital transformation for organizations
• What's different about digital transformation for associations
• Avoiding shiny object syndrome in your tech related projects

Guest Information:Elizabeth Weaver Engel, M.A., CAE, is Chief Strategist at Spark Consulting. For more than twenty years, Elizabeth has helped associations grow in membership, marketing, communications, public presence, and especially revenue, which is what Spark is all about. She speaks and writes frequently on a variety of topics in association management. When she's not helping associations grow, Elizabeth loves to dance, listen to live music, cook, and garden.

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewengel/
• https://www.getmespark.com/
• The Digital Transformation whitepaper: https://bit.ly/3y4O6dy
• https://www.amazon.com/Designed-Digital-Architect-Sustained-Management/dp/0262042886

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