Nonprofit YEAH!

Nonprofit YEAH!

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Nonprofit YEAH! episodes

  • Strategic Planning YEAH!

    Your nonprofit organization needs a strategic plan. It guides you for the year, or three, or five... it's your road map to the future. It holds your feet to the fire, assigns responsibilities, and helps you budget. Supporters love to hear you have a plan, too. How do you create one? This episode dives into the steps and reasons. It takes a concerted effort by staff and board, and it's work that really pays off.

    Take a listen and pass it around!

    13 min
  • Eat That Frog!

    Mark Twain has a couple of good quotes about doing hard things. The essence of his guidance is that if you have to do something hard, do it first thing in the morning. The rest of your day will seem easy! We do lots of hard things in nonprofit, and often they're messy, and we don't exactly know what we're doing. This episode is about getting down and dirty and eating that frog, even if you don't know how to do it.

    15 min
  • Audit Your Books For Everyone's Sake

    It doesn't occur to many small and medium sized nonprofits to get their books audited. It didn't to me when I started one 20 years ago. But it turns out to be a great exercise to understand where your organization is under-performing, and even over-performing. It covers you if the IRS comes knocking, and it impresses those donors who ask to see your financials. This episode explains the why's and how's of organization auditing.

    11 min
  • Super Happy Fun Episode!
    Sometimes we get lost in the urgency of the work, or we become to routine and staid. In this episode I urge you to shake it up a bit, reintroduce some fun, food, and a little French into your meetings and other work.
    9 min
  • Show Us Your Super Powers!
    Boards and staffs are filled with all kinds of people. We all have Super Powers. Often, however, one or a few voices are heard again and again. Whether it's a founder (thank you for being a founder!), or an overly-assertive board member, the cost of them being heard a lot, is that others are rarely heard. In this episode I urge you to 'show up, listen up, and speak up!'
    15 min
  • Beth Stipe CFNCW
    I had the opportunity to sit down with Beth Stipe, Executive Director of the Community Foundation of North Central Washington. Don't worry if your organization isn't in one of the three counties her organization serves - CFNCW is one of 700 community foundations across the country. One of them almost certainly serves your area. Beth talks about how they do their work, why it matters, and how you can be successful in working with a community foundation to further your mission and programs.
    28 min
  • Year End Last Stab
    The very last week of the year should be a time that you give donors a chance to make a gift. These are the ones that may say, "You know, I meant to give them a hundred bucks this year..." and it's an impulse gift imbued with the holiday spirit. (It's also imbued with the IRS if the donor itemizes.) This is how to make it easy.
    8 min
  • Do You Know What You're Doing?
    We enter nonprofit work - frequently - with no training. Employees, volunteers, board... often we have passion but no education or training. This episode explores that deficit, and how to address it. (The answer is: passion will drive your will to fill the holes!)
    9 min
  • Know Thy Donor
    In this episode I explore the tricky question of donor tracking. I want to learn as much about a donor as I possibly can before I have a conversation with them, and in this episode I give some examples of things I like to know.
    13 min
  • Endowment Episode
    One of the holy grails of nonprofit work is to establish an endowment. We frequently hear from boards and staff of small and medium sized nonprofit organizations that they would love to have an endowment. In this episode I explore some aspects of what this really means: how big does an endowment have to be to be useful? What does it take to establish one? How do you manage funds in an endowment so they don't diminish over time?
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    11 min

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Nonprofit work can be a mystery to many, whether you're staff, board, or volunteer. Because of the fantastic opportunity we all have to make our organization in any image we choose, how we act, how we…