The Nonprofit Reframe

Episode Highlights

• What new skills will Brittny and Nia emerge with?
• Work those stewardship plans.
• Keep fundraising. "Pivot" your messaging, but don't stop.
• Donors, STOP RESTRICTING GIFTS!
• Giving Tuesday Now! Coming up on May 5

Resources

• Jack Dorsey's Coronavirus Donation
• Giving Tuesday Now

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Episode Highlights

• Sprucing up for video calls means putting on earrings these days.
• Some foundations are rising to the occasion and others…well…aren’t.
• Notes to Foundations:
• Make the applications easier.
• Stop requiring hard copies. It’s ridiculous and dangerous!
• When rapid response really means rapid applications, but not funding.
• Stop pulling funding or shifting funding away from organizations who are relying on it.
• RELEASE ADDITIONAL FUNDING. You have the GD funds.
• Recognize that the impacts of this crisis will be felt for a long time and that we need our nonprofit sector around for it.
• Communicate! Let your grantees know that you’re not worried about reporting, numbers, etc.

Resources

·      Anna Wintour in Sweatpants

·      Donor Advised Fund giving surges as pandemic spreads

·      Letter urging foundations to grant at significantly increased levels during the COVID crisis

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The last of the pre-coronavirus recorded content, this episode covers the unfortunate, great divide between program staff and fundraising or administrative staff.

Episode Highlights

• Check out the new website!
• Administrative and Program Staff end up too siloed.
• Shout out to staff who want to learn about the other side.
• How can we maintain mutual respect and appreciation for the amazing work we all do?
• Trainings for the entire staff on programming, fundraising, and the whole kit and caboodle.
• Go up/down the stairs and spend time with the other teams!

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Boards are tough! It's hard being a Board Member. It's hard reporting to a Board.

Episode Highlights

• Serve wine at Board meetings to get Brittny there.
• Board/Staff relationships require trust!
• Board Members, volunteer in programs to get a better sense of the work!
• Boards weighing in on staff benefits and implementing for-profit standards. GAHHHHH!
• Stay out of operations!
• Mutual Appreciation, FTW!
• Boards, self-police! Don't ask staff to institute accountability for you.
• THANK YOU for your service!

Resources

• Board Source - Great resource for boards!
• Training for Colorado Folks - Learn more about Beyond The Basics Board Training

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We cover all three of the things your'e not supposed to talk about: money, politics, and religion.

Episode Highlights

• The Johnson Amendment
• Why are nonprofits scared of lobbying?
• Nia pretends to be Schoolhouse Rock and teaches you about lobbying
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness may go away!
• Nia has an AWFUL slip of the tongue and apologizes to everybody, profusely.
• Importance of prioritizing your involvement in policy work

Resources

• 5 Questions and Answers on The Johnson Amendment (from NPR)
• How getting rid of the Johnson Amendment could hurt NPOs (from The Independent Sector)
• National Council On Nonprofits Policy Page
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

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Brittny and Nia offer a quick check-in with everybody out there in the nonprofit space in the midst of a pandemic.

Nia promotes usage of the bird. Brittny tells us to slow down.

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A Special Note: We know you're experiencing a triple (maybe quadruple or quintuple, even) whammy right now with the way that COVID-19 is impacting your services, your workforce, philanthropy, and events. Please take care of yourself. The stress and anxiety is very real and we have to prioritize self-care right now.

Episode Highlights

• "Sustainability" has so many different definitions and understandings
• Go beyond just how much money, to how diversified is our funding.
• We all know, there's always that ONE board member.
• The nonprofit starvation cycle is very real
• If we truly want to end these major societal issues, we need investment NOW

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Brittny's wish has come true! It's another spring day. Too bad Nia had to shatter that and meter in her intro to today's episode on Technology

Episode Highlights

• Why is technology so hard in nonprofits? Bad data management, lack of training on software, bad software and hardware
• We must leverage technology better!
• Everybody needs an octogenarian technology pro
• Put a data management program into place
• Donors: Stop caring if nonprofits are spending money on tech. They need to!

Resources

• Tech Soup - Free and Discounted software for Nonprofits
• Last Pass - Password management

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