Your Nonprofit Life

🏳‍🌈 We're still celebrating PRIDE, and today's guest, Anne Friedman, is the Executive Director of Gay for Good. Gay For Good energizes and mobilizes the LGBTQ community to interact with the greater community by volunteering their time to various social welfare and environmental service projects.

Anne started volunteering with Gay for Good while she was working full-time at a nonprofit foundation; however, after a tragic event, Anne found herself re-evaluating her priorities and what happened next surprised everyone!

Links and more information available on the show notes page: https://yournonprofitlife.com/ep16-anne-friedman

When he was only ten years old, my guest's parents gave him a radio starter-kit, and it wasn't long until he was broadcasting around the block. Over 50 years later, he's still broadcasting, and now, he's transferring his passion for the medium to the next generation.

🏳‍🌈 We're still celebrating PRIDE and today's guest, Marc Sophos, is the founder, Executive Director, and Board Chair of MFPG: Media for the Public Good and the Executive Producer of OutCasting.

OutCasting, OutCasting Overtime, and the OutCasting Ga[y]me Show are public radio's LGBTQ youth programs and podcasts, produced by teenagers and young adults. The programs cover LGBTQ and queer topics, including transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, non-binary, and other gender and sexuality identities and issues pertaining to them, with particular emphasis on their effects on young people.

Learn more and connect with OutCasting on the show notes page: https://yournonprofitlife.com/ep15-marc-sophos/

🏳‍🌈 It's PRIDE month and this episode's guest is Leo Preziosi Jr. the Founder and Executive Director of Live Out Loud!

Live Out Loud inspires, nurtures and empowers LGBTQ youth to build a successful future by connecting them to positive role models and affirmative experiences in the LGBTQ community.

By providing youth with opportunities to interact with adults who understand the realities of living openly as a member of the LGBTQ community, Live Out Loud helps young people to achieve academic success, healthy relationships, rewarding careers, and a fulfilling life.

Connect with Live Out Loud!

• Organization Website: https://www.liveoutloud.info/
• Donate: https://www.liveoutloud.info/donate/
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/LIVE-OUT-LOUD/15320494719
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/liveoutloudinfo
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/liveoutloudinfo

Mentioned in this episode:

• Gay-Straight Alliance: https://gsanetwork.org/
• GLSEN: https://www.glsen.org/

The Your Nonprofit Life Podcast is produced by the Nonprofit Leadership Lab. Learn more about the Nonprofit Leadership Lab and our exclusive online community "The Village":

• Podcast Website: https://yournonprofitlife.com
• Lab Website: https://nonprofitleadershiplab.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonprofitleadershiplab

Today I have the privilege of introducing you to one of the most fascinating men I've never met (in person, that is). James "Jim" Roth spent thirty years of his life as an attorney fighting for human rights both in the United States and internationally. He's helped start multiple nonprofits in Minnesota including the Center for Victims of Torture and The Advocates for Human Rights. He currently serves on the board at One Voice, Mixed Chorus in Minnesota.

One Voice Mixed Chorus is Minnesota's only – and one of the nation's largest – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight allies (LGBTA) chorus. Founded in 1988, One Voice has been "building community and creating social change by raising our voices in song" for 30 years.

Additional links and video performance can be found on the show notes page: https://yournonprofitlife.com/ep13-james-roth/

Most of us are aware of foster care and the need for foster parents, but how often do we consider what happens to foster kids when they age out? When they no longer have a place to call home? And what about other young adults who find themselves homeless due to lack of family support? In this episode, you'll meet Adrean Stinnett, the Founder of J127 Ministry in Durant, Oklahoma. We'll learn how this one woman mobilized a community–where nobody knew her–to support young women ages 18-23 who have aged out of the foster care system by providing them with a place they can call home, with long-term mentors to teach life skills, and with job opportunities at local businesses so they gain work experience and eventually thrive out on their own.

In this episode you'll learn how one woman took her vision for a transitional home for aged-out foster kids from concept to reality in less than three years, debt-free!

Visit the show notes page for photos, links, and ways to connect: https://yournonprofitlife.com/ep12-adrean-stinnett/

EPISODE 11: CONTENT WARNING This episode includes discussions about complex trauma. While we don't get into specifics, we do explore how sustained, severe childhood abuse impacts the brain and what is being done to support survivors. Listener discretion advised.

Every time I talk with Amy Bradley, I hear about some new program she's developed or a new plan she's created to help bring love and healing to people who've survived the unimaginable. She founded Hesed Place only a few years ago, and has already received national attention for her trauma-informed town-within-a-town model. She is a visionary leader whose passion for hurting people has resulted in training numerous community partners how to provide trauma-informed care.

Although we start out talking about coffee, Carolina Pottery mugs, and Tanzanian art, our main conversation revolves around Amy's decision to found a nonprofit organization and develop a unique model for helping survivors of complex trauma — one could be replicated nationwide. I can't wait for you to meet Amy Bradley, the founder and executive Director of Hesed Place in New Bern, North Carolina.

To view photos of the artwork Amy has hanging in her office, check out the show notes page: https://yournonprofitlife.com/ep11-amybradley/

When word gets out that the top leaders of a nonprofit in a small town have been misappropriating funds and behaving unethically, everybody hears about it. Everybody. And it's up to the board to act quickly with integrity to find someone who can immediately step-in and LEAD...

Visit the show notes page for links to resources mentioned in this episode and to share your favorite leadership books:

https://yournonprofitlife.com/ep10-ginodemaio/

My guest's life changed completely when she and her husband, already parents, fell in love with a sweet little girl who was living her worst life at an orphanage in China. They soon learned that unconditional love and proven parenting practices were not enough for their newly adopted daughter. In desperation, they reached out via telephone to a relatively new organization run by a former veterinarian who knew how to help them navigate attachment disorder.

Julie Beem began her relationship with the Attachment & Trauma Network as a parent in need of support and advice. It wasn't long until she began volunteering, and eventually she was hired as the first Executive Director, following the founder and helping to guide the organization into new territory with an annual conference for teachers! Not only that, but they just landed a huge grant to help them expand their online services.

To connect with Julie, ATN, and/or Your Nonprofit Life, please visit the show notes page: https://yournonprofitlife.com/ep9-julie-beem/

The career switch demanded by a broken system and a heart determined to make a huge difference in the lives of abused and neglected children.

My guest in this podcast is Cara Gerdiman, the Executive Director of Kids' Harbor Child Advocacy Center. Even from a young age, she knew she wanted to make a positive difference in her community. After college, she began her career working with kids and teens who were caught running away from home, committing petty crimes, and children who were abused.

It wasn't long until she observed firsthand the cycle of poverty, incarceration, abuse, and neglect she had learned about in college. When the opportunity came for her to move from the public sector into nonprofit service, she jumped at the opportunity and then over the years she worked her way into a position of leadership at her organization.

This interview will not only cover Cara's journey into nonprofit, we're also going to talk about some of the challenges that she had shifting from the position of co-worker into one of leadership and running the nonprofit–especially considering she had not yet had the training for that.

Visit the show notes page to connect or browse the resources we mentioned during the broadcast: http://yournonprofitlife.com/ep8-cara-gerdiman/

Connect with Kids' Harbor Child Advocacy Center:

• Organization Website: https://kidsharbormo.org/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KidsHarborInc/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuVZhTi2nW6ClqYSHmSdw5w

Additional Links & Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Stewards of Children® from Darkness to Light
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber

If you're wondering how to keep your board engaged and activate their fundraising gene, then you don't want to miss out on my conversation with Teri Todd, the Director of Development and Marketing for the Children's Protection Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. She's amazing!

Listen online or on your favorite podcatcher: https://yournonprofitlife.com/ep7-teri-todd/

Photos, links, and resources available on the show notes page:

https://yournonprofitlife.com/ep7-teri-todd/

Connect with Children's Protection Center:

• Organization Website: https://www.childrensprotectioncenter.org/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChildrensProtectionCenter/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cpc_littlerock/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/CPCLittleRock

The Your Nonprofit Life podcast is produced by the Nonprofit Leadership Lab. You can learn more about the Nonprofit Leadership Lab and our exclusive online community "The Village":

• Website: https://nonprofitleadershiplab.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonprofitleadershiplab