75. Reimagine Corporate Partnerships + Discover The Lost Art of Connecting - Susan McPherson

Meet Susan. She is a serial connector, angel investor, and corporate responsibility expert who just happens to be the ultimate word weaver. We're talking through the new normal of corporate responsibility (it's no longer nice to have - it's essential!), and she's giving her best advice on networking. Spoiler: there's nothing better you can give someone than connecting them to others. This Girls Who Code and 19th* News adviser and investor took our breath away with her compassion and wisdom. Tune in for uber inspiration!

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73. How to Take Your Virtual Event to the Next Level - Lindsay Martin-Bilbrey

Meet Lindsay. While the rest of us are scrambling to figure out virtual events, she's been orchestrating them online for years alongside her nonprofits clients. And today she's bringing those tips to the show. She'll be sharing what she believes is the new normal for event fundraising as well as sharing innovative approaches to engagement. If you're looking for virtual event ideas - today is your day. Freebies shared too!

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71. The Secret of Batch Work! - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE

We get asked a lot how we're able to drop three podcasts a week while running our business and giving our best to our families. There's seriously only solution, and it's batching. Other than batching gifts, we had never heard that term until a couple years ago when we started recognizing the parallels between entrepreneurs and nonprofits, and it is game-changing to staying focused and doing a lot in a short amount of time. Feeling overwhelmed? Overburdened? Whether it's professionally or personally, these simple little life hacks will help you "work in focus." Are you really multitasking or are you just frantically moving back and forth between projects? We're here to help, and naturally, we'll keep it light too.

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70. How to Level-Up Your Nonprofit's Online Marketing - Dana Snyder

Meet Dana. This social media expert loves helping nonprofit marketers and organizations cultivate passionate online audiences of donors, partners, and advocates. Your websites and your socials are your storefronts right now. And Dana's diving into how to leverage events on social media and tips to broaden your donor base. This is the social media episode you need to hear.

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69. How Nonprofits Can Collaborate with Online Influencers + Build a Movement - Nick Lynch

Meet Nick. This former Make-A-Wish kid knows what it's like to benefit from the nonprofit sector, and now he's paying that gift forward. Nick founded Collidescope, a social media analaytics and measurement software-as-a-service platform allowing global causes, influencers and orgs to collaborate and track their cumulative influence and impact. Hear how a gamer raised more than $250K for a domestic violence shelter. He's talking partnerships between nonprofits & influencers, and we should all be listening.

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68. Reimagine How You Communicate + Engage With Your Donors This Year - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE

We know your nonprofit has impact to share, and you've got people and donors who need (and want!) to hear from you... but there just isn't enough time in the day to do it all. We get it, we've been in the trenches - or should we say the constant content grind for years right there with you. This week's episode is a Hail Mary to the nonprofit communication warriors who want to level up their game and dive into a better way to create, share, engage and, sharing and engaging at scale.

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21. How to Start a Movement that Changes the World - Terri Broussard Williams

Meet Terri. She believes leaders turn moments into movements, and she's passionate about activating that movement toward social good. Tune in and learn the 4 things you need to be an agent of good in your space of the world from this accomplished nonprofit professional, author and speaker. We'll also explore a couple tips for learning during hard times. Timely advice for all of us.

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20. How to Grow An Email List To Power Your Nonprofit + Using Pinterest to Find New Donors - Jess Campbell

Meet Jess. She's tackling your email list: how to define it, grow it and flex it for greater engagement. Join us as she provides the Top 4 Ways to Grow Your Email List. Even better - she also tackles how to structure your email messages, and the do's and don'ts of e-communication. We know you'll love hearing about how she creatively leverages Pinterest to engage donors. Seriously. And it's seriously smart and progressive too.

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18. Be a Better Leader by Being a Better Communicator ...Today! - Dr. Ryan Bisel

Meet Dr. Ryan Bisel. Ok. We'll admit it. Many nonprofit leaders have poor communication. The Professor of Organizational Communication talks through keeping focus on meaning and connects it as the lifeblood of successful nonprofit leaders. He's got practical advice for connection and drafting two-sided messages. He even shares some of the great outcomes from his students' social/business projects: the Do Good Project.

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12. Leveraging the Power of Giving Days - Carol Pierce Goglia

Meet Carol Goglia. What happens when you take a major metropolitan area, throw out an audacious community giving challenge and start your clock for 18 hours? You have North Texas Giving Day which moved from $600K+ in 2009 to more than $50M pledge last year to the benefit of 3,000 local nonprofits. Her marketing counsel is spot-on and something she's applying now to her role as President of United to Learn.

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