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Rethinking Performance Reviews

Nonprofit Radio Show - August 29, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes
The annual performance review is something that can cause stress for both managers and staff members. In this episode, Nancy and Sarah offer some tips and suggestions for rethinking the way you provide feedback and support to your staff or volunteers. They talk about how to reframe the review as...

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The art of collaboration

Nonprofit Radio Show - August 07, 2023 18:00 - 14 minutes
We've talked about collaboration in past, and yet there is one aspect of collaboration that deserves a deeper dive. In this episode, Nancy and Sarah talk about collaborations and how organizations can pro-actively address culture and cultural differences within them. They share a few steps for s...

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How to set supervisors up for success

Nonprofit Radio Show - July 24, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes
All of this churn in nonprofit staffing means that there are a whole lot of new supervisors who need training and support. In this episode, Nancy and Sarah talk about what new supervisors need to know and do to be set up for success. They share the highlights from a webinar Nancy and HR expert S...

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061. Between high profile civic disobedience and building broad public support: A youth activist

NGO Soul + Strategy - July 21, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes
Summary How does a climate change activist movement such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) chose among strategies and tactics on the spectrum between more 'radical' actions such as civic agitation, (nonviolent) disobedience, high-profile stunts that may lead to arrests and more 'mainstream' actions ...

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061. Between high profile civic disobedience and building broad public support: Coos van Est, Extinction Rebellion activist

NGO Soul + Strategy - July 21, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes
Summary How does a climate change activist movement such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) chose among strategies and tactics on the spectrum between more 'radical' actions such as civic agitation, (nonviolent) disobedience, high-profile stunts that may lead to arrests and more 'mainstream' actions ...

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060. Should climate activists pivot their campaigning strategies from agitation to broadening public support? Aseem Prakash

NGO Soul + Strategy - July 21, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes
Summary Environmental activism, environmental justice and equity concerns: what, if anything, is challenging about holding all of these three concerns at the same time? Can a better integration or balance be achieved between these 3 concerns? To what extent is radical activism cyclical in nat...

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Maker Marial: Former Lost Boy now Author

East Africa NGO - July 14, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Maker Marial is a former Lost Boy of Sudan who came of age during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1987-2005). His family and village were attacked, friends and relatives killed…and he began a years-long process  to rebuild his shattered life. He has written a memoir of his experience. It is shoc...

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059. Potential and peril when NGOs aspire to use a network structure: Doris Bäsler, formerly @ Oxfam

NGO Soul + Strategy - June 24, 2023 17:00 - 48 minutes
Summary What are the strengths of a confederated nonprofit organizational structure and what are its inherent weaknesses and limitations? What is a ‘diversified network’ type of organizational structure? To what extent does having a confederated organizational structure, as well as the aspira...

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Time management for nonprofit leaders

Nonprofit Radio Show - June 12, 2023 22:00 - 16 minutes
With a pomodoro ticking in the background (just kidding), Nancy and Sarah squeeze out a few minutes to talk about time management. In this episode, you will learn a few strategies on how to manage your time when you just have too much going on. Nancy and Sarah share six strategies to try as you ...

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Nonprofit Upcycling: How to do more with less

Nonprofit Radio Show - June 12, 2023 22:00 - 20 minutes
Reduce, reuse, recycle... and now upcycle. How can nonprofits apply these environment lessons to be more efficient and effective? In this episode, Nancy and Sarah share tips on how to use the principles of reuse, recycle, and upcycle in nonprofit communications and financial management. They cha...

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058. Can civil society get better at anticipating futures? Heather Hutchings, Danny Vannucchi and the International CS Centre

NGO Soul + Strategy - June 10, 2023 07:00 - 46 minutes
Summary What is the difference between forecasting and foresight, as a skill and an area of work? What are the pitfalls when international civil society organizations (ICSOs) apply crisis frameworks to trends that are actually longer-term, intersecting, and systemic? Decolonization and divers...

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Blockchain technology for food security

ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - June 08, 2023 22:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Jessica Agnew, Ph.D., Associate Director of CALS Global, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, explores the potential of blockchain to solve global food security challenges. Introducing their Laser Pulse project’s unique user-based design, creating ‘stickiness’ and encou...

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057. From transnational advocacy networks to transscalar activism: Beth Bloodgood & Chris Pallas

NGO Soul + Strategy - May 21, 2023 14:00 - 44 minutes
Summary What is ‘transscalar activism’ in a nutshell? And how is it different from what academics call the 'Boomerang' model of international advocacy NGO networks? When did international NGO advocacy begin attracting the attention of academics, and why? What had shifted at that point, what ha...

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Less is More

Nonprofit Radio Show - May 10, 2023 04:00 - 18 minutes
How can you take away information to get more done? How might less help you better move others to action? In this episode, Nancy and Sarah take recent research on "less is more" and apply it to nonprofit communications and finance. That's all you need to know to take a listen. Let us know what y...

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056. Philanthropy that’s less colonial in mindset and practices: John Hecklinger @ Global Fund for Children

NGO Soul + Strategy - May 08, 2023 19:00 - 50 minutes
Summary What’s problematic about philanthropy in the ways the sector has practiced it for many decades? Are there limits to trust-based philanthropy? How do boards of grant-making philanthropies such as the Global Fund for Children have to change their composition, mindset, and oversight prac...

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Family Foundations: Ask Us This

Nonprofit Radio Show - May 01, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes
It is grantwriting time. So many of our nonprofit colleagues are spending a lot of time filling out forms, checking boxes, and trying to figure out how to explain their work within strict character counts. In this episode, Nancy and Sarah make a list of a few questions they wish family foundatio...

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055. Digital advocacy NGOs: a necessary, complementary force: Nina Hall

NGO Soul + Strategy - April 26, 2023 19:00 - 49 minutes
Summary What are the characteristics of 'digitally native' campaigning organizations? How do digital NGO campaigning organizations compare and contrast with traditional, 'brick and mortar' NGOs? Do digitally native civil society organizations and traditional NGOs sufficiently seek to compleme...

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Using AI to detect pests in crops in Tanzania

ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - April 21, 2023 16:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Benedicto Hosea, CEO at Mboni ya Vijana, partnering with Plant Village, explains how have implemented a global AI app to help farmers in Tanzania with detecting pests in staple crops, and further improve their knowledge for resilience. 

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054. NGO scandals: causes, consequences and prevention + recovery strategies: Cassandra Chapman

NGO Soul + Strategy - April 04, 2023 00:00 - 45 minutes
Summary INGOs have been rocked by scandals and allegations of abuse of power, discrimination etc. in the last 5-10 years.  What kind of different types of scandals can we distinguish in our sector? Which factors that affect nonprofit scandals remain understudied? What's the distinction betwe...

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The power of a thank you

Nonprofit Radio Show - April 03, 2023 17:00 - 23 minutes
Thanking someone is a powerful two-way street that invites further connection and collaboration. In this episode, Nancy and Sarah talk about why thanking people matters both in terms of our own personal well-being and our organization's mission. They walk through three kinds of thank yous and wh...

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053. Change is not a project: Hazem Fahmy on CARE Egypt’s Country Office transition towards full membership

NGO Soul + Strategy - March 19, 2023 13:00 - 51 minutes
Summary A number of NGOs have aimed to strengthen their global legitimacy by adding more global South members/affiliates. Is this truly a valuable strategy? Does it help with legitimacy to be more 'globally balanced'? What are the hard lessons learned about how to manage this process? And how d...

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Digitization & farmer's behavioral change

ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - March 16, 2023 23:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Worlali Senyo, Head of Corporate Services at Farmerline, explores how to encourage (small-holder) farmers to digitize and inspire social behavioral change for more resilience and agricultural productivity. 

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Big Picture Thinking

Nonprofit Radio Show - March 16, 2023 13:00 - 16 minutes
We’ve been noticing how hard “big picture thinking” can be for nonprofit people who so commonly are too busy getting things done to pause and consider the larger landscape. In this episode, Nancy and Sarah explain what “big picture thinking” is, why it matters, and how your organization can expa...

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Demystifying the Donor Meeting

Nonprofit Radio Show - February 28, 2023 17:00 - 23 minutes
Donor meetings can be mysterious and stressful to some. Making an ask for money isn't something we all intuitively know how to do. In this episode, Nancy and Sarah demystify the donor meeting to explain what happens at a typical donor meeting and how you can best prepare. They provide tips on ho...

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Setting up a market monitoring dashboard for food security

ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - February 23, 2023 15:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
 Sonja Perakis, Senior Market Monitoring Advisor, and Janeen Cayetano, Data and Geospatial Analyst, at Catholic Relief Services discuss the importance of data-driven response to food security and explain how to get started with a market monitoring dashboard.  

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052. Influence and power in complex NGOs: leadership insights from John Samuel @ Oxfam

NGO Soul + Strategy - February 18, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes
Summary What is most difficult or challenging about operating as a leader in a place like Oxfam? What does it take to lead from a political frame in NGOs? Rational persuasion: is it overrated?   In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview John Samuel, Oxfam Asia Regional Director...

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AI for climate adaptation

ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - February 15, 2023 17:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Leila Toplic, Head of Emerging Technologies Initiative at NetHope, demonstrates how AI can assist vulnerable communities in adapting to the effects of climate change. She shares three examples on anticipatory action, climate-smart agriculture, and AI for environmental protection. [Publication r...

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The Art of Nonprofit Gatherings

Nonprofit Radio Show - February 14, 2023 18:00 - 20 minutes
Nonprofits host a lot of gatherings: board meetings, fundraising events, volunteer trainings, etc.  In this episode, Nancy and Sarah explore how to create transformational gatherings, from board meetings to fundraising events. They draw on the wisdom of gathering expert Priya Parker to expand ho...

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Improving livestock farming with big data

ICT4D Conference Podcast: Global Tech, Local Good - February 08, 2023 20:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Anthony Whitbread, Principal Scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), demonstrates how big data is being used to support livestock farming. 

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Crypto-Philanthropy - Interview with World NGO Day Founder Marcis Skadmanis

NGO Weekly | Top Nonprofit Stories on Trends, Transformation & Technology | By Dr. Daniel Schwenger - February 07, 2023 10:49 - 15 minutes
I had the opportunity to interview its initiator and founder, Marcis  Skadmanis. We talked about the opportunities nonprofits can gain in cryptocurrencies for their donation and fundraising.  We talked about the following questions: What is Crypto Philanthropy? Can a charity accept cryptocurr...