Nonstop Nonprofit
88 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -Calling all badass nonprofiteers! We know you're busy saving the world. That's why the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast from Funraise is your one-stop-shop for the hottest insights on all topics that are typically top-of-mind for nonprofiteers!
Plug in your headphones (or stream out loud on public transportation-we won't judge) and join hosts Justin Wheeler and David Schwab for weekly episodes on juicy topics like smart fundraising technology, nonprofit growth trends, innovative giving advancements, humane hiring culture, and more!
If you work for a nonprofit (or you're a sucker for social good), chances are you could use some of our on-the-go insights, humor, and support for nonprofiteers. So, subscribe to the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast wherever you get your podcasts—we're the perfect pitstop to help you grow on the go
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Partners, Not Projects: Actionable ideas to make space for ethical storytelling
March 21, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBAfter an enlightening interview with Olga M. Woltman of LemonSkies (queue it up next!) left us pondering the role of storytelling in the nonprofit world, we realized that our focus on advanced fundraising practices parallels the aspirations of ethical storytellers. Namely, ethical storytelling is the future of the nonprofit story (and the heart and soul of nonprofit fundraising). But to fundraisers searching for the perfect nonprofit campaign, ethical storytelling can feel elusive and fuzz...
Big Ideas and Big Challenges: Notes from Camp Redwood
February 29, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBComing from a cathedral of redwoods, from shared moments between a collective of concerned colleagues, this episode of the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast brings together visionary nonprofit leaders Justin Wheeler and Brett Hagler. Justin is the CEO of Funraise and sometimes-host of the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast, and Brett is CEO of New Story, a nonprofit pioneering solutions to end homelessness. Together, they sat down at Camp Redwood, a creative gathering for social entrepreneurs, to talk about...
Living in liminality: Managing change in the for-good sector
February 15, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThe winds of change are blowing, and nonprofits, ahem, the for-good sector, isn’t immune. Today we’re talking to a seasoned nonprofiteer who has experienced his share of change and made it his mission to shepherd for-good organizations through transformational moments. In this conversation with Todd Hiestand, Co-owner of Liminal, a creative branding agency for nonprofits, we touch on the effects that change has on the for-good sector, how to foster these shifts, and the value of leaning int...
Talent and Turnover: The for-good sector's retention crisis
January 25, 2024 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44 MBToday, we’re talking about a serious subject that has inspired a seriously enlightened discussion: Retention in the for-good sector. If you’ve been working in this sector for any length of time, you’re probably aware that keeping mission-oriented staff is harder than ever. But why? If you’re a nonprofit leader seeing your staff burn out and move away from causes that they’re passionate about, what can you do? Today’s guest, Amber Christoferson, is here to help you answer that question. With...
Kickstart your fundraising in a major way with Rhea Wong
January 11, 2024 08:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBLet's start with a phrase that we don’t say often enough: “Get that money, honey!” Today’s guest, nonprofit leadership coach and major gifts consultant, Rhea Wong, comes to the charitable sector with experience as a recipient of nonprofit services, a green-but-hustling ED, a self-taught fundraising expert, and a charitable board whisperer. And as we’ve established, the title of Rhea’s book Get That Money, Honey! The No-Bullsh*t Guide to Raising More Money for Your Nonprofit isn’t just fun ...
Trend Alert! Awareness-Assisted Grassroots Growth
December 21, 2023 15:47 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBIt’s that time of year—the time that we’re all focused on new beginnings and upcoming trends, brimming with hope that there’s some groundbreaking tactic, tool, or trick on the horizon. (Unless you’re listening to this in August, of course.) Nicole Nidea, Program Director at SODA, has lots to say about a trend that’s been sweeping 2023 and is poised to change the face of fundraising in 2024: What Nicole calls “findability”. We’re talking AI-assisted search experiences, long-game scaling stra...
“One Weird Secret” to avoiding overwhelm during stressful fundraising moments
December 14, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBWhen Jon DeLange agreed to come on the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast, we planned a conversational angle to keep the discussion from spinning out—if you know podcasters, you know staying on topic can be tough! Jon’s topic was "12 Rules for Fundraising: an antidote to tactical overwhelm during the EOY fundraising season”. As a longtime fundraising consultant and Summit Ministries’ Direct Mail and Digital Fundraising Manager (not to mention one of 2023’s top 25 Fundraising Experts in America), Jon...
Character and Courage: In the lab with Julie Ordoñez
November 30, 2023 08:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBIt’s a safe bet that when nonprofiteers talk about their work, the word “passion” will come up pretty quickly. But does passion alone drive impact? Julie Ordoñez says character matters more than passion when it comes to fundraising. From directing philanthropy and being a Major Gift Officer at organizations like New Story, Lift, and United Way of Greater Los Angeles to coaching leaders in raising game-changing gifts, Julie has a unique perspective for growing any organization’s impact—and t...
The Nonprofit's All-In-One Guide to Giving Tuesday and Year-End Email Fundraising Success
November 16, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBIt’s a universal truth that people love to feel special. We all want to feel like we’re an indispensable part of something. It’s also true that each and every one of us has limitations on our time, money, and attention. So with these realities coexisting, how can nonprofits interact with supporters on a personal level while not draining them of resources? Katelyn Baughan, nonprofit email marketing expert and consultant to Trevor Project, UNHCR, and Amnesty International, has more than a few...
Digital Trends in Fundraising
November 02, 2023 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBTalk about a jam-packed podcast episode—this conversation with Cameron Bartlett has it all: anecdotes, examples, trends, cautionary tales, solutions, trends, strategies… and did we mention cutting-edge trends from the trenches? That’s right; as we talked, Cameron had a story and a trend that related to each and every topic we brought up. And it’s no surprise… Cameron’s a fast-moving, trend-setting, high-growth fundraising consultant who’s worked with nonprofits like New Story, IJM, Compassi...
People-powered growth: How nonprofits can use stories that strengthen connections
October 19, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBLet us ask you a question, fundraiser: When it comes to crunch time for your fundraising campaigns, do you feel intense pressure to find a poster child for your nonprofit, capture their iconic story, and optimize it to deliver maximum donations? Look into our eyes, listener, and hear us when we say that’s a daunting task for anyone. It’s no wonder storytelling stresses nonprofits out! But there is a way, and you’re about to hear the secret directly from one of the storytelling greats. Olga...
AI and Technology Trends In the Nonprofit World
October 05, 2023 16:23 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBToday’s guest doesn’t just skim us across the surface of AI in the nonprofit sector; he’s taking us to the forefront of the future of fundraising. David Norris is a leader at three organizations that are making big things for nonprofits so they can make big things happen: Bold Crow, Proofpact, and The Nonprofit Hive all use trending technology to benefit the nonprofitsphere. As soon as we said “trending technology”, you knew AI was joining the chat, didn’t you? You were right; we can’t tal...
Best of Both Worlds: Nonprofit purpose + for-profit practices = Growth
June 22, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBHi, there Nonstop Nonprofit listeners! Today’s interview offers insight into an unlikely pairing of nonprofit passion and for-profit practice. It’s a method of leading and growing nonprofits that’s largely unused in the nonprofit sector: EOS. Amy Acton, CEO at Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors, implemented this aggressive growth system to expand PBS’ community and visibility to more than one million burn survivors, and it’s been a game-changer for them. EOS, or Entrepreneurial Operating S...
The Nonprofit’s High-Growth Guide to exponential growth despite economic uncertainty
June 08, 2023 07:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBIs your nonprofit uncomfortable with growth? I mean huge, mission-busting, stuff-of-dreams type growth, otherwise known as exponential growth? Because if your comfy idea of growth is increasing donations and programming and impact by a solid 5% each year, that’s fine. It’s just that… well, with 10-15% inflation hitting everyone, that 5% growth isn’t quite the flex you think it is. (In fact, it may not even cover your end-of-year pizza party.) Now that we’ve scared you—and sorry about that,...
Growing Together: How building systems and empowering people creates sustainable change
May 25, 2023 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB"Keep it simple." Could it be that simple? Could changing the world be as simple as… keeping it simple? When Bill Lutz says it, it seems obvious. Bill is the ED of New Path and Coach and President of Pinnacle Strategies—and he’s got an amazingly focused view when it comes to nonprofit leadership and fundraising. But his advice to “keep it simple” isn’t as simple as it sounds. Bill recognizes that a great nonprofit leader does the work of building the structure and instilling discipline whi...
Special Delivery! High-growth content tactics to engage recurring donors
May 04, 2023 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBMany nonprofits struggle to deliver meaningful content in a way that engages their donor base. It tracks; you can have the coolest impact story, but if it’s just sitting on your website waiting for donors to come to it, it’s not truly making the impact it was designed for. If that sounds like something your nonprofit struggles with, this episode is for you! Today, Funraise's Director of Growth Marketing, David Schwab, is talking to David Bowden, spoken word poet and Co-Founder & Executive D...
Relationships Change Everything
April 20, 2023 07:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBNonprofits have to answer so many questions these days: What’s the best way to invest in my nonprofit’s impact? How do I lead my team through today’s societal changes? How do I increase donor retention rates and hit fundraising goals and avoid burnout and stay on mission and still make a grocery run before dinnertime? We’ve got a guest here who’s going to help us answer a few of these and hopefully change the way we approach relationships for the benefit of the whole changemaking sector. An...
The Case of the 98% Donor Retention Rate
April 06, 2023 07:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBWow! Today’s episode is so jam-packed, it’s practically bursting. Chive Charities has only been around about a decade, but they’ve got donor retention down like no other organization we’ve seen. We know you’re sitting there thinking, “How great can their retention rate be? 50%? 60?” Well prepare yourself, listener: Chive Charities has a 98% donor retention rate. And today, you get to hear from longtime Chive Charities employee, supporter, and board member, Erika Carley, as she breaks down ...
Humanizing Nonprofit Technology
March 16, 2023 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBEveryone in the nonprofit space has a moment where it all just clicks; in fact, you’ve probably had one or two. Today’s guest had one such moment that changed his perspective on nonprofit technology forever. Tim’s Jerry Maguire moment came when he saw a statistic at an event that said, “90% of nonprofits collect data. Only 5% of nonprofits use that data to make decisions.” In that moment, Tim knew he had to rewrite the tech stack playbook to teach nonprofits how to get the most from their t...
Email Fundraising Masterclass with John Walsh
March 02, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBJohn Walsh comes to the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast through a purely digital path that began with some of the hardest-to-engage audiences and then expanded to include broader digital strategies. These days, he advocates for nonprofits to lean into digital fundraising, with his specific passion being email. As a self-proclaimed “digital guy” himself, our host David Schwab has seen how digital fundraising’s speed, directness, and consistency contribute to donor awareness and engagement in ways ...
The Power of A Story: How commitment, consistency, and creativity lead to growth
February 16, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBThe road to $1 million isn’t an easy or fast one to travel. Only 9% of nonprofits in the Los Angeles area grow to manage a budget of $1 million. Ten years ago, when Richard Reyes founded the PLUS ME Project, his budget was $4000 and his vision was to provide mentorship and role models for youth through storytelling. Today, an exciting part of this achievement is that PLUS ME’s own growth story is still unfolding, expanding, and providing guidance and inspiration to other nonprofits just as...
How to fundraise at an individual level to make impact at the individual level
February 02, 2023 20:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBHard as we try, sometimes the individual gets lost in our fundraising efforts. Beth Fisher is one fundraiser working to change that where she can. Beth is the Chief Advancement Officer at Mel Trotter Ministries, leading fundraising, development, and donor stewardship for an organization that’s been around—and growing—for over 100 years. In her previous life in software sales, Beth’s superpower was seeing her customers’ needs and selling targeted solutions. So when she took the reins at MTM...
Closing the Resource Gap
January 19, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBOver the last few years, the United States has experienced a nationwide reckoning against racism and racial injustice. And while we've witnessed many steps forward towards antiracism, every sector has a long way to go to close the resource gaps created by structural racism. Kia Croom is leading the fight against anti-Black racism in the nonprofit industry. After twenty years of experience as a development executive and philanthropic strategist, Kia founded The Black Fundraisers' Podcast in...
Greater Than Our Sum: How Virtuous and Funraise are coming together for the good of fundraisers
January 05, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBVirtuous and Funraise are teaming up! You heard it here first, loyal podcast listener. CEO Gabe Cooper is leading Virtuous on a mission to expand the giving experience, retain donors, and move one-time donors to full-time, monthly donor status. Listen while Justin speaks to Gabe about how to make that happen––and how Virtuous and Funraise are coming together to make navigating generosity a seamlessly simple experience. Make sure to stay until the end of the episode to hear Justin's mini-int...
Get a Jump on P2P Fundraising Trends for 2023
December 15, 2022 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBShannon Scanlan is a champion of peer-to-peer fundraising. With an impressive career that has touched nearly every avenue of nonprofit fundraising, Shannon brings her expertise to the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast to break down top trends for P2P fundraising in 2023. Listen in as Shannon talks to Justin about the untapped potential of P2P fundraising—and shares clever ideas to leverage P2P in new and innovative ways. And if this episode gets you excited about P2P fundraising for your nonprofit...
Everyone Wins with Stock Donations
October 19, 2022 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBIf you’ve been involved in the nonprofit world for the last decade, you know that the landscape of nonprofit fundraising has significantly shifted to increase charitable giving as digital innovation drives donor engagement. But in order for innovation to truly change the fundraising game, it’s critical for innovators in technology and finance to direct their attention and their talents toward increasing social good. Steve Latham is doing just that. In 2020, while many of us were locked i...
The #HumaneHiringMovement is Here!
August 18, 2022 15:21 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBIf you're following Funraise CEO and Co-founder Justin Wheeler on LinkedIn, you know that Funraise is hiring. We have lots and lots of positions to fill and we're not shy about getting the word out. You may also be hearing the AWESOME public feedback that we're getting on our hiring process—even from candidates that we didn't hire. What you may not know, though, is that getting to that point was not easy. To help us navigate these new hiring waters, we brought on an incredible recruiter, An...
Nonstop Nonprofit's Best of 2021: Changemakers Making Change
August 04, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBHear from eleven of the nonprofitsphere's brightest stars, and see the beautiful constellation their efforts have made in our sector. Empowerment, leadership, trailblazing, and proof that you can't refute. Technology, the social element, and revolutionary data-based developments. These are the segments that shone bright in 2021 and got us through some of our darkest days. Listen in as we celebrate 2021 and say hello to a new season of the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast!
On the Road: Funraise LIVE at AFP ICON 2022 (Ep. 4)
July 21, 2022 07:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBWelcome back, nonprofit friends! Nonstop Nonprofit is kicking off our season 3 with a four-part series loaded with live interviews from AFP ICON 2022! Hang out at our booth with us and talk to nonprofit's brightest stars about trends, impact, and the future of fundraising. Episode four of our compilation series features Taylor Shanklin, Madison Gonzalez, Chad Barger, and Courtney Gaines. Let's dive in! Listen to the full-length AFP ICON 22 live interviews on YouTube.
On the Road: Funraise LIVE at AFP ICON 2022 (Ep. 3)
July 07, 2022 15:01 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBWelcome back, nonprofit friends! Nonstop Nonprofit is kicking off our season 3 with a four-part series loaded with live interviews from AFP ICON 2022! Hang out at our booth with us and talk to nonprofit's brightest stars about trends, impact, and the future of fundraising. Episode three of our compilation series features Karen Houghton, Bret Heinrich, Shiree Skinner, and Mallory Erickson. Let's dive in! Listen to the full-length AFP ICON 22 live interviews on YouTube.
On the Road: Funraise LIVE at AFP ICON 2022 (Ep. 2)
June 22, 2022 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBWelcome back, nonprofit friends! Nonstop Nonprofit is kicking off our season 3 with a four-part series loaded with live interviews from AFP ICON 2022! Hang out at our booth with us and talk to nonprofit's brightest stars about trends, impact, and the future of fundraising. Episode two of our compilation series features panelists from AFP: Julia Campbell, Cherian Koshy, and Rachel Muir. Let's do it! Listen to the full-length AFP ICON 22 live interviews on YouTube.
On the Road: Funraise LIVE at AFP ICON 2022 (Ep. 1)
June 02, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBWelcome back, nonprofit friends! Nonstop Nonprofit is kicking off our season 3 with a four-part series loaded with live interviews from AFP ICON 2022! Hang out at our booth with us and talk to nonprofit's brightest stars about trends, impact, and the future of fundraising. Episode one of our compilation series features Francesco Ambrogetti, Kishshana Palmer, Sommer Brock, and Jarret Ransom. Listen to the full-length AFP ICON 22 live interviews on YouTube.
The Future of Giving Through Smart Tech
March 01, 2022 08:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBConfession time! Here at Funraise, we're all huge nerds, so when we added Beth Kanter and Allison Fine to the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast schedule, our CEO and Co-founder (and biggest nerd) Justin Wheeler, was. stoked. And on the agenda? Smart tech. But what is smart tech, exactly? "Smart tech" refers to AI and other advanced digital technologies that make decisions for people. It's not a tech evolution, but a revolutionary shift in power away from people and towards tech. Beth and Allison, ...
It Takes A Team: How Free Wheelchair Mission's focus on infrastructure stimulates big growth
January 25, 2022 17:08 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBAs Nuka Solomon says, "Growth is an interesting word." She's right; depending on who's asking us—our board of directors, partners, or, heck, even a podcast host—we hold that concept of growth to the light and turn it to answer with the most beautiful kaleidoscope possible. Nuka is a pro when it comes to nonprofit growth: as the CEO of Free Wheelchair Mission, she's taken the organization through the pandemic with flying colors, supporting expansion in finances, reach, and engagement. But sh...
"Philanthropy will follow" Choose 180 shows that change begins within
January 11, 2022 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBSean Goode has a way of clearing up murky waters, idea-wise. Just one conversation with him makes previously sticky concepts seem obvious, possible, and right. As Sean would say, he focuses on possibilities instead of problems. As the Executive Director of Choose 180, Sean's focus on transforming unjust systems led his organization to make an overdue-yet-unheard-of change in 2021: they moved to an organization-wide living wage policy. You heard that right; every employee at Choose 180 makes...
Reimagining Grant Management
December 16, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBWhy is grant management such a freaking hassle (to put it nicely)? Well, we don't have the answer for that, but today's guest does. She also has a solution. Ansley Fender, CEO and Founder of Atlas, a grant management platform, is here to light up your various spreadsheets and applications and revenue streams and transactions and explain the uncharted chaos that separate databases is causing your programs. It's no secret that nonprofits struggle with the grant process, but Ansley's insight ...
Fully-functioning Boards Bring Together Heart and Brains
December 09, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBAs a nonprofiteer, you know what it means to put your heart into something. Like, you KNOW know. But when it comes to missions of the heart, your board may not see it as clearly as you do. Today, we'll get both perspectives: Luke Womack is an Executive Director with passion while Pat Mullen is a board chair on a mission. Funraise CEO and Co-founder-slash-nonprofit board member Justin Wheeler is talking to The Go Fund leaders to discover how they found their footing together and uncover thei...
Cultivation is the key to connection: Why relationships are your best fundraising tool
December 02, 2021 16:10 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB"Cultivation is the key to connection." The title of today's podcast, and a relatively core fundraising strategy. So why are we talking about it like it's news? This quote right here: "It's amazing how many nonprofits opt out of communications during the giving season." Nathan Hill, VP of Marketing at NextAfter, isn't talking about being skimpy with the outreach. He's talking about 0 communications. Radio silence. During a month that brings in a third of the year's giving. Nonprofits, whyyy...
Stand Together Foundation: Discovering solutions through venture philanthropy
October 21, 2021 14:37 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBListen up! Nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs—if you're feeling frustrated because traditional charitable "best practices" aren't moving the needle, if you feel like the odd one out because you're more focused on the people you're helping than your donors, and if your idea of impact skews more transformational than a boring board report, then today's conversation is for you. Hang in there, friends; you're not alone. We're talking to Evan Feinberg, Executive Director at Stand Togethe...
The Great Resignation: How to build a culture that keeps employees around
October 07, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBAfter everything that the pandemic has brought, who would have guessed we'd be dealing with this next pandemic outcome: The Great Resignation? Tiffany Keesey, Co-founder of Conscious Culture, joins Justin Wheeler, Funraise CEO and Co-founder, on the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast with emergency advice to keep your organization from being plagued by this latest crisis. If you haven't heard the term, The Great Resignation refers to the 4M people quitting their jobs each month in the U.S. since Ap...
In the Eye of the Beholder: Become a Confident Fundraiser by Understanding Your Nonprofit's Value
September 23, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBConfidence is a tricky thing: it's simple to say, to talk about, and to identify, but confidence is difficult to reach, and it's even harder to hold onto. During today's Nonstop Nonprofit, Justin Wheeler, Funraise CEO and Co-founder talks to a fundraiser-turned-executive-coach whose confidence unlocked an almost 4X increase in her nonprofit's revenue. Justin's conversation with Mallory Erickson goes back to his time as a fundraiser. For context, while these days it's pretty common to follo...
Turning nonprofit innovation into action
September 09, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBToday, we're talking in paradoxes: The secret to transparency, why nonprofits are twice the businesses that for-profits are, and the reason nonprofits need to choose donors carefully—instead of the other way around. And to help shed light on these opposite viewpoints, we've got Melissa Vine in the house! Melissa is an entrepreneur, licensed mental health counselor, JD candidate, and nonprofit ED at Beacon of Life—basically, a changemaker in every sector! I've long evangelized for nonprofit...
Tune up your revenue engine with Big Brothers Big Sisters
August 26, 2021 07:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBVroom, vroom! Let's rev up your nonprofit's revenue engine! Today we're talking to a friend, colleague, and nonprofit sparkplug Deborah Barge, the Chief Development Officer at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, an organization that you maaaay have heard of. Deb's track record working with charitable organizations that have a deep history of donor engagement, like March of Dimes and Muscular Dystrophy Association, has given her insight into not just ways to cultivate donors, but also how...
Nerding Out with The Nonprofit Nerd
August 12, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBFinally, Justin Wheeler, Funraise CEO and Co-founder and bad-ass fundraiser, met his match. This podcast guest is someone so invested in nonprofits, so into impact, so devoted to the sector, that he was barely able to scrape the surface of the topics on his agenda. Jarrett Ransom, aka The Nonprofit Nerd, is the Founder and CEO of nonprofit coaches The Rayvan Group and co-host of The Nonprofit Show. And today, Nonstop Nonprofit is bringing the show to her. Justin prepares for every podcast a...
American Heart Association Shows the Importance of Innovation on Impact
July 29, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBInnovation. What does innovation mean? Where does it come from? Why is innovation important to your nonprofit's impact? Today, we're talking to Brooke Codney, American Heart Association's National Director of Development Innovation, about how AHA, a worldwide leader in the nonprofit sector, relies on creative zero-gravity thinking from its global team. From finding her job through a pretty traditional (and now kind of outdated) method—a newspaper listing, to being a leading innovator at Ame...
From the courtroom to the boardroom: How Innocence Project sustains their drive toward long-range change
July 15, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBYou won't find a lawyer who'll argue that a person innocent of a crime should do the time. It's not a negotiation. With this in mind, in 1992, Innocence Project embarked on a simple, yet revolutionary mission: use DNA to exonerate innocent people who have been incarcerated and turn those pardons into policy to prevent others from being wrongfully convicted. Fast forward to 2021, and Innocence Project is responsible for 232 of the 375 people who've been freed based on DNA evidence. Sounds lik...
Big, bold goals: Learn the secret to long-term nonprofit growth and innovation
July 01, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBPop quiz, listeners: How much greater is the risk of suicide that our veterans and service members face versus their peers who haven't served? Before we answer that, let us introduce you to the Nonstop Nonprofit podcast guests today: Nick Black and Tina Starkey. Nick is the founder and CEO of social fundraising solution GoodUnited and he also founded powerhouse nonprofit Stop Soldier Suicide. Tina, Stop Soldier Suicide's Chief Growth Officer, brings a wealth of experience in the social real...
Proof Positive: Gamechanging tips for nonprofit marketers
June 10, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBQuick, before we start the podcast: If you're a nonprofit marketer and you haven't seen what happened when Action Against Hunger added Funraise's pop-up donation forms to their website, do yourself a favor and take a look. (We'll wait.) The results they saw are so incredible that you'll immediately understand why Action Against Hunger's Digital Lead, Andrew Chappell, said it was the single biggest contribution to their successful revenue gains in 2020. Of course, after working closely with ...
Google Ad Grants: A conversation with the experts at Nonprofit Megaphone
April 22, 2021 07:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBBefore we dive in today, we've got two questions for listeners: "Have you ever heard of the Google Ad Grant?" and "Would it positively impact your nonprofit if you could reach more people searching the internet?" Those are the two questions that Nonprofit Megaphone CEO Grant Hensel asked hundreds of nonprofits in 2016. It's kind of a trick question! Grant explains that the answer to the second question IS the first question, but when 75% of the nonprofits he spoke with had never heard of th...
Impact at the speed of investment
April 01, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBToday we're talking to a compassionate (former) banker. A guy who shifted to the nonprofit world from Goldman Sachs after fundraising for a cause close to his heart. Someone who can see how much the for-profit world needs to learn from nonprofits... instead of the other way around: Mitch Stein. In both his capacity as both a nonprofit leader and the founder of a tech startup, Justin Wheeler, Funraise CEO and Co-founder, cheers this viewpoint and explains that it's a major reason that Funrai...