In this episode, Eva Hieninger joins me from Berlin to discuss digital fundraising, campaigns, and marketing for nonprofits with a German perspective. Eva is a Partner and Managing Director at getunik (www.getunik.com) and before that was the owner of MARKETING FOR GOOD. She has consulted NGOs and nonprofits like Save the Children Germany, WWF Germany and Johanniter International Assistance on digital strategy, online marketing, online fundraising and online campaigning. I hope you enjoy the episode!

Follow Eva: https://twitter.com/marketing4good_

Recently nominated as a L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth, Valerie Weisler joins the podcast to chat about starting The Validation Project when she was just 14 (!), what led her to do that, and how she's been able to grow and scale their work across the world.

As a victim of bullying, Valerie Weisler noticed a fellow student suffering and reached out to him with a powerful message of compassion: “You matter.” When the student let Valerie know how much her words meant to him, it inspired her to create The Validation Project. Today, Valerie shows others how to recognize their own worth and use it to change the world through social justice initiatives.

Learn more about Valerie and The Validation Project here: http://www.thevalidationproject.org/

You can vote for her, any other Women of Worth nominee here: https://www.womenofworth.com

Richie Kendall from Cheerful Giving joins the pod to discuss aggregate giving apps, impending philanthropic shifts, and developing an enduring lifestyle brand. Richie brought a background in film and design having worked with brands like Forever21, New Belgium, Frontier Airlines and more to Cheerful Giving (https://cheerfulgiving.com/) where he’s the Co-Founder and Managing Director. In his role, he’s working to make Cheerful Giving a digital platform and mobile app for next-generation philanthropy and aims to be the largest community of donors, nonprofits and faith-based organizations where giving to any cause is as easy as a single tap.

On today’s how I chat major gifts and major gift fundraising with Richard Perry from Veritus Group. Richard has over 30 years’ experience helping nonprofits transform their Major Donor programs. He co-founded The Domain Group, which was one of the largest full-service fundraising consulting agencies serving major national, regional and local non-profits in the United States before starting Veritus group and the Major Gift Academy and online course and resource for major gift training and development. Hope you like it!

More on Veritus: https://veritusgroup.com/

More on the Major Gift Academy: https://www.majorgiftacademy.com/

In this episode, Noah Barnett from CauseVox discusses discuss all kinds of fundraising things like communications, crowdfunding, digital, and more. Noah is the Growth Marketing Lead at CauseVox but prior to that, he spent six and half years in fundraising and marketing leadership roles at World Help and The Adventure Project. He knows firsthand the challenges nonprofits face, and is passionate about equipping them with the resources and insights they need to rally people around their cause.

Learn more about CauseVox here: https://www.causevox.com/

A special bonus episode for you as The Good Journey Pod host Brady Josephson sits down with Claire Kerr and Laura Armstrong from FrontStream to chat about nonprofits, his career, donation pages, and more on their podcast, Asking for More.

You can listen to the original episode and get more podcasts delivering "Professional development for development professionals" at http://askingformorepodcast.com or wherever you get your pods by searching Asking for More.

On today’s pod I’m joined by Megan Strand, Communications Director for Engage for Good. Megan and I discuss point of sale donation campaigns and Engage for Good’s 2017 Charity Checkout Champions covering 73 different campaigns and over $441M raised in 2016 alone. We cover some trends seen in the report, pro’s and con’s of these campaigns, and what small businesses and nonprofits can do to try out their own campaigns.

You can learn more about Engage for Good and the 2017 Charity Checkout Champions report here: http://engageforgood.com/2017checkout/

In this episode, I sit down with Marco Zaugg, entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of RaiseNow. We discuss fundraising and giving in Switzerland and Europe and how it compares to Canada and the US among other things. Enjoy!

Learn more about RaiseNow: https://www.raisenow.com/en

In this episode, Phil Haid from Public Inc. is on the show. Phil co-founded Public Inc. in 2008 with a focus on driving large-scale social impact by merging and more closely aligning profit and purpose for companies and brands. On the show, Phil discusses what Profit and Purpose means, how CSR needs to shift and evolve, and how the charity mindset is a hindrance to not just nonprofits but for the social impact space. Hope you enjoy the show!

Learn more about Public Inc. here: http://publicinc.com/

Darren Lancaster Co-Founder of ThinOPTICS joins to discuss cause marketing. ThinOPTICS is a cool new company that makes frameless glasses and has recently partnered with an organization called Prevent Blindness to raise funds and awareness for their 20/20 at 40 program. Darren shares more about how that partnership came about, what they look for in their charitable partners, and how key flexibility and speed are to them. Enjoy!

More about ThinOPTICS and their work with Prevent Blindness: http://thinoptics.com/preventblindness