Nonprofit Problem Solver

Today’s episode is about the totally irrational and emotionally driven decision to donate.  The question isn’t why do people give, but why do they give to your nonprofit?  Or why should they?  Founder and Chief Innovation and Optimization Officer at Next After, Tim Kachuriak, has run hundreds if not thousands of experiments to see what works in digital marketing for nonprofits.  And he’s found lots of ways we make giving harder - that’s right - harder than it needs to be.  Nonprofits consistently make the same mistakes online.  Listen out for some simple steps you can make to vastly improve your online giving.  

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Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio, https://podproaudio.com/

Can your nonprofit survive on major gifts alone?  Do you have enough loyal donors to keep you afloat?  Maybe in your case they’re the same people but it’s easy to separate the size of a gift from the frequency and take for granted the people who give us $10 or $25 month in, month out.  Today I discuss with fundraising coach Amanda Moore how and when to choose one group of donors over another because, as always with nonprofits, it depends.  

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Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio, https://podproaudio.com/

We all want to be influential when we’re communicating with others  But mindset and leadership coach Maryanne Dersch will tell us to think about how we’re communicating to ourselves, first.  Are we being consistent?  Is our internal voice in alignment with our external voice?  If not, that disconnect is going to show up in our messaging and we can undermine whatever influence we might have.  So how can you retune your internal and external voices?  Let’s listen to Maryanne model what it’s like to be authentic and vulnerable while exerting influence.

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Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio, https://podproaudio.com

Where are you with grants?  Have you been spending hours and hours filling out forms, shooting them off, and hoping for the best?  Have you been successful with small grants and now need to step up your game?  Grant expert Rachel Sacks walks me through the strategic thinking nonprofits need to do before they even think about grants.  Sort of like online dating.  Sort of.  And then there’s the whole other piece about handling the grant well when you get it.  Let’s hear from Rachel about succeeding before, during, and after getting a grant.

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Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio, https://podproaudio.com/

18 months ago no one was talking about virtual events but we’ve learned so much in doing them that now that we can plan for in-person events, why give up the virtues of online?  In this special feature edition of the podcast, I moderate a panel including yotme founder Barry Hinckley, events producer and founder of Saphier Events Jennifer Whitman and Nic DiBella, Director of Experience at Stage Edge an events and content producer.  Let’s hear the panel explain how to make hybrid events work as a double event, a combination of a fantastic in-person event with an equally fantastic online experience.

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Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio, https://podproaudio.com/

Let’s admit it, folks, we in nonprofits have a money problem.  Not the one you’re thinking of - not enough money - but not enough talking about money and money management.  Today we address that with Tosha Anderson, whose rapidly growing accounting firm works only with nonprofits. Were you aware that major donors review your tax forms to see how financially viable you are?  That means being on top of your cash flow, your reserves and your accounts receivable.  If that sounds intimidating, help is here, in the form of TheCharityCFO Tosha Anderson.

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Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio, https://podproaudio.com

How often do you tell yourself you’re not quite good enough?  Over half of the actions we take every day are done out of habit, including how we talk to ourselves.  In this episode Dr Tamsin Astor, Chief Habit Scientist, explains how detoxing isn’t just green smoothies but also includes resetting our self-talk, especially around our personal expectations, which we know in the case of nonprofits can be astronomical.  We’ve come to expect super long hours and in some cases we wear burnout like a badge.  Let’s hear Dr. Tamsin explain how we can reset our habits and our expectations.

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Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio, https://podproaudio.com/

If you’ve ever heard the phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast” then you may be familiar with today’s topic.  I’m talking to consultant Maseta Dorley about strategic planning and ways we’ve seen nonprofits do it right, or better, but also how they can get it spectacularly wrong and end up undermining their own survival.  As we come out of lockdowns, we can’t just go back to the old normal - so how should we approach nonprofit strategy in a Covid and post-Covid world? 

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Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio, https://podproaudio.com/

I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard a nonprofit say that now they’ve been running their programs for a while, or someone’s finally asked to see their results, they’re going to start measuring and monitoring outcomes.  Hint - if you’re not measuring, start now!  You’ll probably use a spreadsheet to get started, but how long will that serve you?  Evaluation Expert Michelle Molina chats to me about the signals that tell you when it’s time to move on to dedicated software or - actually - just make better use of the spreadsheets you already have.

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Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio, https://podproaudio.com/

Lots of nonprofits think about recurring monthly gifts and put them in the box labeled - “will get to it later”.  In this first episode of the podcast using the yot.me virtual events platform, I’m joined by fellow nonprofit podcaster Travis Johnson, who you may know from his Nonprofit Architect Podcast.  Travis walks us through not one, not two but THREE ways to generate donations that come in month after month based on a single ask.  Plus we learn about three nonprofits that Travis has nominated to participate in this exciting new format.

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Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio, https://podproaudio.com/