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Nonstop Nonprofit
by Funraise
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
Episodes
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Solving problems or seeking opportunities? Mission-based Appreciative Inquiry
With over 30 years working in nonprofits, Michael Mantel knows a thing or two about sustaining change over a long period of time. And as the President and CEO of Living Water International, an organization making waves in the WASH space, as well as the author of Thirsting for Living Water…
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Using Fundraising Intelligence to Modernize Nonprofit Growth
Here at Funraise, we've long known that if only nonprofits were able to harness the power of data, they’d have the world changed in no time at all. In fact, nonprofits that embrace data tools like Funraise’s Fundraising Intelligence raise 7x more online annually and grow recurring revenue 1.5x...
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What makes a visionary leader? Whiteboard.is breaks it down.
What makes a leader visionary? How is visionary-ness developed and what does it look like in practice? While the concept behind these questions seems nebulous, we’re talking today with someone who has concrete answers based on interactions with dozens of modern visionaries. Taylor Jones, Founder...
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Identifying Your Nonprofit’s Lane for Scalable Impact
When it comes to programming, some nonprofits choose a lane a mile wide and an inch deep while others dive a mile deep and an inch wide. The key is to know which lane your nonprofit thrives in. Today’s guest is Phil Olaleye, Georgia State Representative and Executive Director of Next Gen, a...
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Nonprofit accounting from the ground up with Signature Analytics
Money, budgets, funding, accounting—all nonprofits know how important these are to the success of programming and impact. But when you're a smaller nonprofit or just starting out, do you really need a CFO? Today’s guest, Jason Kruger, has experience with a novel arrangement that’s allowing...
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Deep-Rooted Innovation with The Farmlink Project
Nonprofiteers have long known that our strengths lie in our passion for enacting change. More often than not, though, we see an issue and reach for it, only to find that we’re blocked by a lack of time, money, and helping hands. Today’s guest, Ben Collier, is an aspiring—and inspiring—visionary...
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Bigger Than Philanthropy: Affecting change through alternative funding
Today, we’re catching up with Francesco Ambrogetti, Principal Adviser of Innovative and Alternative Finance for Children at UNICEF. A champion of innovation in funding and paradigm-shifting change, Francesco has pioneered new funding architectures like bank bonds to support fundraising…
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Partners, Not Projects: Actionable ideas to make space for ethical storytelling
After 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...
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Big Ideas and Big Challenges: Notes from Camp Redwood
Coming 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…
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Living in liminality: Managing change in the for-good sector
The 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...
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Talent and Turnover: The for-good sector's retention crisis
Today, 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...
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Kickstart your fundraising in a major way with Rhea Wong
Let'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…
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Trend Alert! Awareness-Assisted Grassroots Growth
It’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...
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“One Weird Secret” to avoiding overwhelm during stressful fundraising moments
When 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...
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Character and Courage: In the lab with Julie Ordoñez
It’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...
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The Nonprofit's All-In-One Guide to Giving Tuesday and Year-End Email Fundraising Success
It’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…
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Digital Trends in Fundraising
Talk 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...
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People-powered growth: How nonprofits can use stories that strengthen connections
Let 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…
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AI and Technology Trends In the Nonprofit World
Today’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…
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Best of Both Worlds: Nonprofit purpose + for-profit practices = Growth
Hi, 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,...
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The Nonprofit’s High-Growth Guide to exponential growth despite economic uncertainty
Is 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...
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Growing Together: How building systems and empowering people creates sustainable change
"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...
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Special Delivery! High-growth content tactics to engage recurring donors
Many 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...
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Relationships Change Everything
Nonprofits 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...
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The Case of the 98% Donor Retention Rate
Wow! 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...
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Humanizing Nonprofit Technology
Everyone 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...
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Email Fundraising Masterclass with John Walsh
John 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…
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The Power of A Story: How commitment, consistency, and creativity lead to growth
The 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...
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How to fundraise at an individual level to make impact at the individual level
Hard 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…
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Closing the Resource Gap
Over 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…
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Greater Than Our Sum: How Virtuous and Funraise are coming together for the good of fundraisers
Virtuous 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...
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Get a Jump on P2P Fundraising Trends for 2023
Shannon 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...
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Everyone Wins with Stock Donations
If 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...
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The #HumaneHiringMovement is Here!
If 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...
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Nonstop Nonprofit's Best of 2021: Changemakers Making Change
Hear 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...
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On the Road: Funraise LIVE at AFP ICON 2022 (Ep. 4)
Welcome 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...
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On the Road: Funraise LIVE at AFP ICON 2022 (Ep. 3)
Welcome 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...
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On the Road: Funraise LIVE at AFP ICON 2022 (Ep. 2)
Welcome 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...
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On the Road: Funraise LIVE at AFP ICON 2022 (Ep. 1)
Welcome 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...
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The Future of Giving Through Smart Tech
Confession 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"...
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It Takes A Team: How Free Wheelchair Mission's focus on infrastructure stimulates big growth
As 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...
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"Philanthropy will follow" Choose 180 shows that change begins within
Sean 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...
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Reimagining Grant Management
Why 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...
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Fully-functioning Boards Bring Together Heart and Brains
As 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...
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Cultivation is the key to connection: Why relationships are your best fundraising tool
"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…
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Stand Together Foundation: Discovering solutions through venture philanthropy
Listen 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...
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The Great Resignation: How to build a culture that keeps employees around
After 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...
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In the Eye of the Beholder: Become a Confident Fundraiser by Understanding Your Nonprofit's Value
Confidence 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...
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Turning nonprofit innovation into action
Today, 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…
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Tune up your revenue engine with Big Brothers Big Sisters
Vroom, 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...
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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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