For many in the nonprofit sector, Beth Kanter's Blog is a go-to resource for inspiration, tips and tools on how to connect and leverage your organization for real social change. Beth's new book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit is all about how to increase wellness in the nonprofit sector as a means to achieve mission. We were so pleased to have her join us on the podcast! 

In this episode, we talk about:

• How leaders can develop wellness on their teams, be they at the top or in middle management

Resources that Beth discussed include:

• The Philanthropy University 

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If you don't know about Wellspring, you need to! Wellspring is a network of community-based support centres offering programs and services that meet the emotional, social, practical and restorative needs of people living with cancer and those who care for them. 

Given their national network, we invited Wellspring CEO, Christina Smith, to join us in a conversation about how to develop and maintain a strong culture across multiple locations with independent Executive Directors. In this discussion we talk about:

• The Wellspring model and the Wellspring Way

Resources that we discussed include:

• The Potential Project

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Big thanks to Andrew Taylor for joining us on the podcast today. Andrew works with the Ontario Nonprofit Network supporting their evaluations work, as well as running his own consulting firm. On today's episode we talk about:

• Creating a shared understanding with funders about how they're going to use data, etc. 

Resources that we discussed include:

• The State of Evaluation

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Today on the podcast we're joined by Matt Blough from the Calgary Foundation. We're undertaking a 2-part series on how to make evaluations more useful. 

Matt Blough is a Grant Impact Associate from The Calgary Foundation. In this position, Matt enjoys building relationships with charities, sharing their successes and digging into the difference that Calgary Foundation support is making in the Calgary area. Matt also works closely with other organizations in the charitable sector to identify current trends in impact and evaluation methods.

With Matt we talk:

• How to work with funders on reasonable evaluation reporting

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Podbean. 

Resources:

• Evaluations Community of Practice - to sign up for the contact list, send an email to [email protected] 

Join us in two weeks for the second part of How to Make Evaluations More Useful with Andrew Taylor from the Ontario Nonprofit Network. 

Today on the podcast we're joined by ACFRE and internationally-known nonprofit consultant, Simone Joyaux.

Shownotes can be found at propellus.org/podcast

Simone talks to us first and foremost about how to deal with the challenges of creating and managing a board. We discuss her book Firing Lousy Board Members, but the episode is really about all the things you can do to make firing a board member a last resort. We talk:

• Board recruitment

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Podbean. 

Resources:

• Simone Joyaux's Free Download Library

Shaun Loney, the author of An Army of Problem Solvers, is joining the TYS podcast today to talk about some of the case studies from his book. We highly recommend that you grab a copy as he demonstrates how individuals and small organizations are truly capable of making change that perhaps government may not be. We also recommend you check out Shaun's TEDxTalk.

In this episode we talk about:

• why a town named Garden Hill has no gardens

Shownotes for today can be found at www.propellus.org/podcast

Resources discussed:

• Canadian Community Economic Development Network

Today on the podcast we're joined by consultant, partnership broker and author, Jocelyne Daw. Jocelyne is an institution in the Calgary non-profit consulting scene, and we're pleased to have her join us to talk about:

- Cause Marketing, what it is and why it's so important

- How to build successful partnerships, partnership brokering, etc.

- Her experience as an Executive Director, and what she wishes she'd known prior to her first ED role. 

Shownotes for today can be found at propellus.org/podcast 

Today we're joined by organizational change and development expert, Bill Brandon, to talk about the subject that few of us in the nonprofit sector talk about with gusto - governance! While it may not be the sexy conversation starter at a gala, without strong governance, we're unable to lead our organizations to achieve our ambitious missions. 

Together Bill and Victoria talk about:

• what does good governance look like

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Today on the podcast we're joined by international donor communications expert, Tom Ahern. Tom opens his expert toolkit and shares his advice on:

• how to ask for restricted funds

Shownotes with links to Tom's books, resources discussed, etc. can be found at www.propellus.org/podcast

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Whether it comes from your organization, your sector or a funder, collaboration is something that we're all thinking about, yet most of us struggle with. Why? Because it's so hard to do! In order to collaborate you often have to bring parties to the table that have different needs, interests, beliefs, budgets, timelines, you name it.

In this episode we talk to Blythe Butler from the First 2000 Days Network about how they've tackled collaboration in order to measure and achieve early childhood development outcomes.

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