Nonprofit Snapcast

Talking with Robin Cabral on the topic of Fundraising Career Advancement: How to Move Up in Your Fundraising Career By Building Your Personal Brand. Among the topics we cover: Leveraging social media to advance in your fundraising career. How does your fundraising resume fits into today's digital world? Creating a digital fundraising persona that stands out. Making LinkedIn your fundraising best friend. Enhancing your paper resume in a digital world. Mastering the digital fundraising career advancement world. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

The Center for Social and Environmental Stewardship is an organization founded under the name Circuit Rider in 1976. Returning to its original name, Circuit Rider has a long and storied history in Sonoma county of being an incubator for young leaders. Many people in positions of power in the community started their career with Circuit Rider. Che talks with Nonprofit SnapCast about where the organization has been, the challenges they've faced over the years, and their plans for the near future. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Mickey talks with Katharine Hill and Tanya Rhodes Smith about Political Social Work, and the role all nonprofits should play in encouraging their stakeholders to vote. Our conversation covers: Nonpartisan voter engagement is legal, ethical and professional and central to building power in the communities that nonprofits work within. Communities with high voter turnout report greater well-being, and more resources and attention from elected officials. Presidential elections get most attention but voting in every election is critical. State and municipal elections have the lowest turnout yet the decisions are not less important. Issues like education, policing policy, housing, clean water, transportation, voting, healthcare, etc. all have state and local implications. Structural barriers to voting- voter id laws, felon disenfranchisement laws, confusing and complicated voter registration requirements, etc- are not accidental. They are intended to limit power and access. Social workers (and people who work

Our guest is Alejandro Morles, Founder and President of the Warm Ears, Warm Hearts Foundation. We talk about his journey starting a nonprofit at the age of fifteen, and the importance of reaching out to young volunteers as ambassadors of the organization. We cover the following topics: Teens are not inexperienced and are quite willing to help. Ways to reach out and recruit teenage volunteers. Partnering with high schools Examining how teen volunteers are beneficial for both the organization and the teenager. Enfranchising volunteers from the moment of recruitment. Recruiting volunteers AS ambassadors for the organization. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

With more than 20 years experience in the nonprofit sector, Carol works with organizations to help them get clarity on strategic challenges for greater mission impact. Carol keeps a list of free resources on her firm’s website: Grace Social Sector Consulting. We talk about design thinking and human centered design: What is design thinking? How can design thinking be of benefit to nonprofit leaders? Examples of how design thinking can be applied and examining the results? We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Our second episode with Patrina Pelton-Smith, the principal consultant with The Business of Charity. This time we talk about dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s when it comes to getting nonprofits prepared to properly engage in a grant-writing agenda: Getting procedurally clear on programs & services vs activities and events. Receiving the grant is when the hard work actually starts. Ensuring the organization has the right accounting infrastructure in place. Preparing required registrations & certifications (DUNS / SAM). Grant compliance issues. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Our second episode with David Paule of Our Fundraising Search. David says: “There are too many nonprofits and too few ‘well run’ nonprofits. In an economy like we are facing right now, there is going to be consolidation.” We talk strategy and consolidation, among these topics: Educating board members on nonprofit rules and fiduciary responsibility. Founder-Syndrome is a real thing. You have to be really well funded to sit on the sidelines. Hope is not a strategy. A good strategic plan lets an organization play a stronger role in setting its own future as opposed to just hoping for the best. The value of professionalizing an organization’s business operations. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

POSSIBILITY PROJECT: On July 20th Angela Barbash + Marc Rand talked with us about disrupting #investments and #philanthropy, check out this recording, and join us for the next Possibility Project to take part in our breakout discussions. Learn more about the next session, here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13856641/ We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Lori Kranczer believes firmly that planned giving, or “legacy giving,” which are ways donors make impactful gifts through endowments, bequests in wills or other structured gift vehicles, should be a vital part of the fundraising practice of every nonprofit organization, no matter the size, budget or mission. We talk about: Why legacy giving is vital to an organization's long-term fiscal stability How legacy can bring in dependable income, and how much is enough? How an organization can start to create a legacy program. The interaction between legacy giving and other fundraising efforts. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

An excellent conversation with Patrina Pelton-Smith, the principal consultant with The Business of Charity. She focuses on non-profit formation, infrastructure, administration, and grant writing to support her clients in successfully meeting their organization's mission. This episode, we discuss nonprofit board development during pandemic: Recruitment is an ongoing process. “You should always be looking for your successor.” Board candidates currently finding themselves with time. Candidates know there’s a need across nonprofits. This may not be a time to do recruiting if an org is in the middle of a pivot. Keeping your house in order. The board self-assessment along with the messaging to give to board prospects. Getting nonprofits ready to engage in the recruiting cycle. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Mickey talks with David Paule of Our Fundraising Search. David talks about the value of strategic plans, and how to get the most out of them. David talks about his development of a tool—a strategic plan that fits on a one-page sheet of paper. Among the topics we cover: The first step to fixing a problem is to admit you have a problem. Many nonprofits undervalue the strategic plan as a management tool. The biggest value of the strategic plan: it empowers you to say no. A strategic plan is not how you solve a crisis. The strategic planning process doesn’t have to be complex. If your house is on fire, you don’t want to have to think about how to get out of the building. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Maureen Wallbeoff spent more than seventeen years working inside nonprofit organizations, and another ten years leading a digital agency for nonprofits. We talk about a number of nonprofit technology issues including: Why nonprofit tech seems so overwhelming to deal with. Getting a good return on your technology investment. The 4 P framework (plan, people, platform, and process). Defining your true system requirements (not just functionality). We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Part 2 of a conversation with John McGee of McGee Consulting. This time we talk about how an org's 990 becomes a marketing tool, instead of remaining a federal reporting requirement. It's more than just a tax return. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Talking with John McGee of McGee Consulting about the 990, why you can't avoid it, what needs to be on it, and the consequences for doing it incorrectly. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Nonprofit SnapCast has a quick conversation with Jerry Tuzil and Jason Shimitz of Influence The Cause, a soon to be released crowd-funding platform that incorporates ways to immediately gamify the friend-raising and fundraisng aspects of any crowdfunding campaign. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Mickey visits with Deborah Marshall, recently named Nonprofit PRO's 2020 Fundraiser of the year. An expert in strategic initiatives, Deborah Marshall is a seasoned and innovative administrator who oversees all operations at the American Fundraising Foundation. We talk about the award, AmFund's activities, and about establishing a healthy and rewarding workplace culture. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Talking with Emily Taylor, Principal of teenyBIG, to talk about the work she does using Human Centered Design to turn "lackluster followers into passionate supporters." We define what Human Centered Design is, and how these principles are used across an entire organization and its operations. Human Centered Design is not just limited to website construction. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Mickey visits with Steven Aguiar, the founder of Good Goes Further, a company that helps nonprofits create and execute a plan for digital growth. We talk about: What "growth marketing" is, and how nonprofit use it. Frameworks to map growth marketing strategies. The most effective Facebook advertising strategies. A socially responsible approach to digital advertising. The launch of Good Goes Further and the nonprofit marketing community. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Mickey gets to talk with Therese Jardine, Principal of Strategic Event Procurement. We talk about the shift away from in-person fundraising galas towards virtual events. Therese shares best practices and some solid advice about what nonprofits should or should not to when planning a virtual event. We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Visiting with Robert Drake, we tackle the issue of “Big Philanthropy.” What exactly is Big Philanthropy? Is there any danger to letting enormous wealth sectors of our economy to be spent with no government oversight? We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.