253. Direct Mail Isn't Dead Yet... Here's the New Playbook - Mike Duerksen

Meet Mike. 🚨He's brought the truth - direct mail is not dead! We're talking through some super progressive strategies to breathe new life into your direct mail campaigns, tie them to your digital engagement strategy and explore how all of it will tee up your monthly and legacy donors too. We're reimagining direct mail with innovation and equity - tune in🎧

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252. How Rihanna's Clara Lionel Foundation Is Fighting for Climate Justice + Resiliency - Justine Lucas and Fiona Korwin Pawlowski

Meet Justine & Fiona. They're leading the charge not only at Rihanna's Foundation, Clara Lionel Foundation (named after her grandparents😭💚), but also educating the world that climate disasters do not impact all communities equally. Tune in and hear how the foundation is using local people to solve problems in the Caribbean leading to climate resiliency - all supporting Rihanna's dream that her "philanthropy will be as big as my music and my fashion."

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250. Preventing a Lost Generation + Building a Small Business Incubator for Refugees: The Mission of Hello Future - Charlie Grosso

Meet Charlie. She's on a mission to prevent a lost generation. This founder, techie, photographer, and creative dreamer followed her heart and passion until it landed in Syria, and she's never looked back. Her organization, Hello Future, is transforming the refugee youth experience from alone, stuck and forgotten to connected and empowered💪 If you have a heart for refugees or innocence caught amidst war - then this conversation will touch your heart.

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246. The Kiva.org Story + Leveraging the Power of Crowdfunding - Chris Tsakalakis

Meet Chris. This CEO and son of a journeyman is taking what he learned in for-profit finance to nonprofit's most progressive microfinancing loan organization - Kiva - and the story is truly fascinating. Hear Kiva's mission story and understand this brilliant business model of this nonprofit that's powering its movement through crowdfunds loans benefitting underserved people in more than 70 countries.

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245. Podcasting for Good: How to Build a Podcast - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE, and Julie Confer

Hope you're taking notes on this new Friday series Podcasting for Good. We've broken down why we think you should take the plunge, and this week we're diving into How To Build a Podcast. We’re sharing our entire playbook, frameworks, marketing plans and tools too. Join us!

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242. Podcasting for Good: Why Your Org (or You!) Should be Podcasting - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE, and Julie Confer

We're diving into a five-week series on Podcasting for Good: Why You Should Consider Starting A Podcast (or at least be on one!). We don’t want this to be the best-kept secret anymore. We want everyone to know the power that exists in podcasting! It’s the one medium you hadn’t considered to be your most important communication channel in the digital age. We’re sharing our entire playbook, frameworks, marketing plans and tools.

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233. What Matters Right Now: Corporate Partnerships 2.0 - Jonathan McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and Susan McPherson

Is it our birthday or something?!🥳🤩 Join this week's 8️⃣ Trends That Matter in 2022 as we dive into Corporate Partnerships 2.0 with Susan McPherson, our queen of connection, corporate social responsibility expert and our self-appointed godmother. Time to level-up and enrich our partnerships while sunsetting the ​​one-dimensional sponsorship mentality.

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223. The Importance of Data Security to Protect our Missions - Ari Schapiro and Peter Wheeler

Meet Ari + Peter. We work so hard to document our donor data - so why aren't we better securing this most precious resource?! Our friends over at Auth0 ⭐️ are joining us to chat about building safer social impact organizations, and why they chose to rise as a leader of corporate social impact (they're funding their philanthropy through a DAF too!🤩).

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198. Community Week: The Promise of Generation Alpha + the Mission of In a Perfect World - Manuela Testolini

Meet Manuela. We met this L.A. founder in our Community and in PRO, and we positively fell in love with the simple beauty in her nonprofit's mission. After rolling up her sleeves to work on the frontlines of orgs she believed in, she moved from a homeless foundation to running Prince's foundation (yes, you read that right. "That" Prince💜☔️) before starting her own foundation, "In A Perfect World" empowering young people around the world to take action and be kind. She's talking about how to co-create natural empathy in Generation Alpha and how she's seen education be the great equailizer of human vibrancy. Her life 's story is fascinating, heroic, empathetic and reveals one of those amazing founders stories where top brass is first in line and deepest in the trenches - for good. Inspiring! 💡

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196. Your Playbook for Creating an Engaging Digital Annual Report - Josh Kligman

Meet Josh. He believes it's time for your annual report to undergo a makeover. In fact, he believes your annual report has tremendous potential to get your donor engaged and actually reading that report by leveraging digital reports, polls, videos, and the kind of attention-grabbing features you couldn’t include with your basic print version. Tune in and hear about the future of digital publications. We're also chatting about important annual report elements and the importance of digital storytelling🎧

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195. Democratizing the Donor Advised Fund to Grow Philanthropy for All - John Bromley

Meet John. He's tired of seeing donor advised funds sitting around unspent. He's democratized the DAF world, and he wants you and your kids to be an active part of the giving community. You see, once he recognized a need to make giving more accessible and more effective, he launched Charitable Impact which nurtures generosity within each person and bring resources for creating change in the world to everyone. In short, it's a super cool giving platform that makes even a $5 feel like a serious investment in philanthropy. Together, we're talking basics (what the heck is a donor advised fund?) but also talking about how to make our personal philanthropy intentional rather than reactive.

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192. The Great Resignation is Here. How to Leverage it as The Great Opportunity - Sally Bryant

Meet Sally. She began her career on the advancement team at her alma mater, Washington State University, before running one of the country's largest and most respected development recruitment firms today. Her true passion is great leadership, which drives her to get the right leader in the right seat to inspire successful teams. She's talking us through how to recruit top talent and what the Great Resignation means for those entering and leaving the nonprofit sector.🎧

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190. Virtual? Hybrid? What's Working Now In Fundraising Events - Rebecca Alfred

Meet Rebecca. She's bringing her expertise in building donor experience events to the table for a conversation around virtual and hybrid fundraisers. Her advice: it's all about empowering modern fundraisers. She's breaking down the 4️⃣ different types of events, when to diversify the event and when to allow it to stand firmly on its own. Virtual? Hybrid? In-person events of the future? We're breaking it down here💃🕺(you saw what we did there, right?!)

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181. Fundraising on Zoom?! How Tech is Powering Missions to Grow Impact - James Citron

Meet James. He's the CEO of Pledge, the leading charitable donation platform powering virtual, Livestream, and e-commerce fundraising. Pledge recently created the first Donate button built for Zoom, the first round-up application for Shopify, and today, over 25,000 nonprofits operating in 100 countries have received donations via Pledge. This hard-wired champion of kindness is walking us through the current state of virtual, fundraising and hybrid events and, what it all means for nonprofits in the future. And besides being just about the nicest guy in the room, his story of what Pledge did to save more than 1,300 Afghan refugees is the thing of philanthropic heroics.

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167. How to Harness Innovation to Scale Meaningful Impact - Evan Feinberg

Meet Evan. This starry-eyed dreamer sought to change the world first through politics before pivoting into the nonprofit sector after finding his passion awakened in social service. In five years, his organization built one of the largest and most effective anti-poverty nonprofit communities in the country. Tune in and hear how the Stand Together Foundation viewed poverty as an innovation problem and began to look for solutions in new spaces to unleash human potential. It's a brilliant discussion into innovation, storytelling & they're even giving funding away to high-impact orgs who are breaking cycles and changing lives. You might be one of them!

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165. How Movember Grew a Worldwide Digital Community (+5 Million Moustaches Too!) - Katelynn Whitaker

Meet Katelynn. When you've helped to build one of the most iconic, viral campaigns-turned-nonprofit like Movember, you know a thing or two about building digital community. We're talking mobilizing volunteers and crowdfunding campaigns as well as creating innovative marketing strategies to meet millennials / GenZers. Tune in to learn how to be an agent of remarkable experiences from the world's first digital-only nonprofit.

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154. Podcast Replay: As Seen on School of Ethical Impact Podcast - Jenny Nuccio and Hayley Adamski

Meet Jenny & Hayley. They're the voices and brainpower behind the School of Ethical Impact, an institute + community equipping changemakers with the confidence to create real impact through business. Plus, their purpose-driven brand, Imani Collective, employs more than 80 Kenyan women and men to make ethically-sourced artisan products. The story of how our two companies met is one for the books. Tune in and hear about "The Little Banner That Could."

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152. How Nonprofits Should Step Into an Activist Role - Robert Egger

Meet Robert. This nonprofit leader, entrepreneur, author, speaker and activist is a passionate proponent of social good. In fact, he's the founder of D.C. Central Kitchen, the Campus Kitchen Project and the L.A. Kitchen, which have collectively produced over 40 million meals and helped over 2,000 individuals attain jobs. He's talking about the economics of nonprofit (Spoiler: we're REALLY good for business) and sharing why activism matters to the sector. Bottom line: you don’t have to choose between making good and making a living.

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149. Cryptocurrency + Fundraising: The Next Frontier? - Pat Duffy

Raise your hand if you're still trying to figure out how the heck cryptocurrency and philanthropy intersect? 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ We've got you! Meet Pat. He merged his nonprofit experience and passion for Bitcoin trading to create The Giving Block, a company helping nonprofits transact cryptocurrency donations. He's giving the simplest explanation into the ins and outs of cryptocurrency, blockchain and the underlying technology needed to accept this new form of currency. Tune in to hear which orgs are doing it well.

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