All Episodes
Around with Randall — 297 episodes
Episode 284: The Donor Waltz Three Conversation Sequencing that Builds Momentum
Episode 278: Fractional Work: How to Make It Work
Episode 277: Where Advocacy Ends - Good and Lobbying Begins - Bad
Episode 276: Shooters Keep Shooting: How to Overcome that Fundraising Drought
Episode 275: Emotional Quotient-Intelligence in Philanthropy – the Office, Donors, and Teamwork
Episode 274: The Importance of Culture: How to Ensure the Right One to Drive Results
Episode 273: Has Fundraising Work Really Changed much in 50 Years: A Question to be Answered
Episode 272: The Fundraisers Bill of Rights - What we Should be Looking for to Achieve Success
Episode 271: Communication Fatigue in a Hyperconnected World - Better mass communication tactics
Episode 270: Using Faith Based Fundraising Lessons in Secular Organizations
Episode 269: Peer to Peer Fundraising: Expectations and Getting It Right
Episode 268: Interim Leadership: What to do From the Staff and Leader Perspective
Episode 267: How to Work with a Family After Loss - It is all About Them and Gratitude
Episode 266: Being the CPO, The Chief Political Officer: Moving Fundraising Forward Internally
Episode 265: Dealing with Adversity for an Organization, And my Favorite Saying
Episode 264: Counting Planned Gifts for MGO's: Incentives that Drive the Correct Behaviors
Episode 263: Why NOW is the Time for Planned Giving Conversations with Donors
Episode 262: Nonprofit Predictions - Looking into 2026
Episode 261: Looking Back and Evaluating HP's 2025 Predictions Made in Dec of 2024
Episode 260: When to Start a Support Foundation: Rationale and Implications
Episode 259: Endowment Restrictions by Donors or by the Board - How to Create the Proper Options for Both
Episode 258: Cultivating Multigenerational Family Donors
Episode 257: Thanksgiving Gratitude Benefits
Episode 256: Using the Salon (Exclusive Small Gatherings) to Elevate a Cause, Deepen Relationships
Episode 255: One Time (micro) vs. Longitudinal (macro) Storytelling: Creating Connection Over time
Episode 254: Annual Giving Troubles - Try Behavior Economic in Appeals
Episode 253: The Why and How to Create Board Level Metrics and Dashboards
Episode 252: Being Ready for When Bad or Inaccurate Info Hits Social Media
Episode 251: How to Communicate the Need for Operational Support through Unrestricted Giving
Episode 250: Understanding Millennials and Gen Z as Givers-Donors
Episode 249 - The Importance of Embracing Mental Health Wellness in the Office
Episode 248: How to Effectively Use Texting to Build the Relationship
Episode 247: Gamifying Calls and Rejection: How to Compete for Those Calls and Meetings
Episode 246: When the Political Becomes Part of the Donor Relationship
Episode 245: No Established Portfolio: How Many Calls Do I Have to Make?
Episode 244: Cultivating Generosity Over Time: The Best Gifts Don't Just Show Up
Episode 243: Why Obligatory Giving Stinks for Donors - How to Move Toward Passion Discussions
Episode 242: Board Mission Drift - The importance of keeping on point with mission based strategy
Episode 241: Counting vs. Accounting - How to Recognize Fundraising Activity and Follow Finance Rules
Episode 240: How to Make Decisions with Limited Data: Creating Forward Momentum
Episode 239: What do we need in a Philanthropic Leader: Not just Experience and Age, for Sure
Episode 238: How to Overcome Fear in Relationship Building - Embracing Call and Visits with Unknown People
Episode 237: The Relationship Building Process - Stages from the Donor's Perspective
Episode 236: Crisis Fundraising - How to Best Raise Money During an Organizational Challenge
Episode 235: The Bamboo Rules with Fundraising: How to Understand the Long Term Investment for Success
Episode 234: How Philanthropy Offices and Leaders Can Appropriately Push an Organization Toward Needed Strategy
Episode 233: Creating Second Time Repeat Donors: Needing Speed and Personalization to Succeed
Episode 232: Episode 250!!! Realizing the Unknown Impact One Has on Others
Episode 231: Stewardship for Unrecognized / Anonymous Donors: Recognition Does Not Equal Less Contact
Episode 230: Creating Choice Architecture for Donor Giving Options: Strategic Yet Not Overwhelming
Episode 229: The Strategic Importance for 3 to 5 Year Metrics in Annual Giving
Episode 228: Proposals that are Dormant - What to do and how to do it
Episode 227: The Psychology of Timing - When to Make the Ask and How to Know
Episode 226: Ethical Considerations in Donor Influence and Recognition
Episode 225: Creating a Systematic Feedback Loop with Donors – Post Gift
Episode 224: Defining Strategy for a Board - The Key to Ownership and Meeting Community Need
Special Edition 18: The Great Philanthropists - Steve and Connie Ballmer
Episode 223: Who Actually "Owns" a Non-profit and Why is that Really Important?
Episode 222: The Data Driven Rationale for Physicians as ACTIVE Referral Agents, Faculty, Boards
Episode 221: How to Better Deal with Donor Advised Funds - Acquisition, Communication, and Retention
Episode 220: Up-skilling and Why it is Important to You
Episode 219: Screening in Philanthropy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, And the Need for Embracing AI
Episode 218: How Emotions/Life Perspective of Others Affect You: How to Deal with Negative People
Episode 217: Endowing Positions Outside of Higher Education - Strategic priority but terribly underused
Episode 216: To Automate and/or Individualize Stewardship - Maximum Output with Outside Assistance
Episode 215: The Cornerstone of Fundraising - TRUST How to get and keep it with Prospects and Donors
Episode 214: Institutionalist vs. Change - How to Keep the Basic Core of who you are While Embracing Change
Episode 213: Your Nonprofit is Directly Affected by a Natural Disaster - What Should You Do?
Episode 212: Comparing Philanthropy to Sales – Similarities, Difference and Learned Lessons
Episode 211: Looking into the Future - Philanthropy Predictions for 2025
Special Edition 17: The Holiday Nonprofit Team | Staff, consultants, leadership, donors – Holiday Style
Episode 210: Reviewing Philanthropy Predictions Made in Dec 2023 for 2024. Is 80% correct possible?
Episode 209: Creating and Using and Advisory Group to Benefit the Nonprofit and the Volunteers
Episode 208: The Critical 10 Seconds of Moves Management-Qualification to Cultivation - What to Do
Episode 207: Thanksgiving for Trust and Faith - Realizing your Impact on Others
Episode 206: Kenny Rogers Was Right - Hold Them or Fold Them - Should you make that year-end ask?
Episode 205 - Partnering with the Easy Referral Agents or the Correct Referral Agents
Episode 204: Changing the Emphasis of Moves Management Meetings - Putting Passion First
Episode 203: What I Would Tell My Younger Self About Professional Success - And How to Get There
Special Edition 16: The Great Philanthropists - Joel Fleishman - Professionalizing Philanthropy into an Industry
Episode 202: Case Statements - And not Just for the Formal Large Campaigns
Episode 201: The Connection Between Hope & Philanthropy - Finding, Identifying, & Creating it-Personally & Organizationally
Guest Synopsis | Vibrant Vulnerability: Mastering Philanthropy for Today and Tomorrow’s Healthcare CEOs
Episode 200: Onboarding at a High Level - Bringing on new employees the right way (or being that new employee)
Episode 199: What to Ask for in a Solicitation - Cost and General Requests Can't Compare to Impact
Episode 198: Accepting Innovation - The Change That Will Help Both Nonprofits and its Professionals
Episode 197: Selecting Board Members - The Correct Ones in the Correct Timeframe
Episode 196: The Journey of Philanthropy - And That Enormous Gift Alone Not Being the Holy Grail
Episode 195: Corporate Giving Trends | By Looking Back, the Future is More Clear
Episode 194: That Dreaded Evaluation: Why it is Hard and What to do to Make it Better
Episode 193: Aesop was Right 2500 Years Ago – Why I Tell so Many Stories
Episode 192: Pet the Cat Backwards - Those Feline Like Special Events
Episode 191: Collaboration – Important, Underutilized, and Needed for Success
Episode 190: The Decreasing Tenure of a Nonprofit CEO - Why and How Philanthropy Offices Should Help
Episode 189: Summertime (or Wintertime) Connection with Away Donors - Staying in Contact, Deeping Relations
Episode 188: The Six-Month Halfway Uplift - How to Have a Great Holidays by Planning NOW
Episode 189 - The Giving USA Report for 2023 - Highlights and Important Take Aways
Episode 187: Dealing with Difficult Donors - From Appropriate Involvement to Saying Goodbye
Episode 185: Celebrating Small Wins - Starting with this Being Podcast 200!
Episode 184: Non Compete Agreements for Nonprofit Professionals | Signs of Coming Issues
Episode 183: The Importance of Trusting Prospect Management Team: Your Partner, Believe it or not
Episode 182: The Questions in Relationship Development | Stewarding for the Future (Part 5 of 5)
Episode 181: The Questions in Relationship Development - When Soliciting and Closing Gifts (4 of 5)
Episode 180: The Questions in Relationship Development | In Cultivation (Part 3 of 5)
Episode 179: The Questions in Relationship Development | During Qualification (Part 2 of 5)
Episode 178: The Questions in Relationship Development | Pipeline Development (Part 1 of 5)
Episode 177: Marketing vs. Fundraising - How to Work In Concert
Episode 176: Don't Forget About Basic Governance and Supportive Policies
Episode 175: What Makes a Great Leader – Ask the Oracle
Episode 174: Building Confidence - For the Office and in Life
Episode 173: Campaign Case Statement Development: The Critical Work Before the Feasibility Study
Episode 172: Delayed Gratification: Finding Bigger and Better Solutions in Philanthropy
Episode 171: Personalizing and Individualizing Solicitations For All Gift Levels
Episode 170: Randall’s Dream Leadership Dinner Table: And What We Might All Learn
Episode 169: How to Properly Ask for that Raise
Episode168: Critical Thinking - Challenging the Status Quo in Philanthropy
Episode 167: Valentine's Day and Philanthropy
Episode 166: Getting Over the Hurdle of Perpetual Cultivation and into Solicitations
Episode 165: New Organization Structures - What Philanthropy Must Do
Special Edition 15: The Great Philanthropists - Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Philanthropy After Fame
Episode 164: The Importance of Upgrades Elevations - Taking Donors to a New Level
Episode 163: The Insidious Nature of Inflation on Philanthropy and Economics
2024 Nonprofit Predictions
Episode 161: Review of Predictions for 2023
Episode 160: When The Bad Leader Finds You, or You Find the Bad Leader
Episode 159: The Simplicity and Benefits of Hard Work
Episode 158: Setting Expectations - Good for Leadership and Staff Alike
Episode 157: Thanksgiving Wishes to You
Episode 156: Hiring the Right People - What to Look For to Avoid the Square Peg in the Round Hole
Episode 155: Leadership Basics - Leaning in to Make a Difference
Episode 154: Being in the Moment - Building More Meaningful Relationships
Episode 153: Good Reads - Recommendations for Growth and Learning
Episode 152: Disappointment and Success - Part 2 - How to Enjoy Success and Learn From It
Episode 151: Disappointment and Success Part 1 - How to Deal With and Move Through Disappointment
Episode 150: Nonprofit vs. For-Profit - Communicating the Value of Nonprofits in Your Community
Episode 149: Passion in Giving - Breaking Down Expenses for More Transformational Giving
Episode 148: Getting to the Actual Passion of Donors' Hopes and Desires
Episode 147: Overcoming Obstacles Soliciting and Closing Gifts
Episode 146: Overcoming Obstacles - Getting Time with Donors and Potential Donors
Episode 145: Taking Things into Your Own Hands - Self Determination in the Office
Episode 144: Today's Nonprofit Hiring Issue - From the Organization and Employee Perspective
Episode 143: Trust-Based Philanthropy - Unrestricted Opportunity with Responsibilities
Episode 142: Dealing with and Beating Change
Episode 141: The Shifting Nonprofit Legal Landscape
Episode 140: The Importance of Referral - Leveraging Trust to Increase Rapport in Relationships
Episode 139: Mergers - How to be Ready and Survive Them
Episode 138: Giving in 2022
Episode 137: The Value of Independence Day
Episode 136: PODCAST 150! Life-long Learning
Episode 135: The GoFundMe Impact in Annual Giving - The Possible Wave of the Future
Special Edition 14: The Great Philanthropists - Ryan and Cindy Beedie - Community Leverage
Episode 134: Those Zombie Proposals - How to Move them to Dollars in the Door
Episode 133: Fearing Fear Itself - Calling and Putting Yourself Out There
Episode 132: Proper Engagement to Get to Transformational
Episode 131: Greek Love And Its Connection to Philanthropy Part 1
Episode 130: Moms In Nonprofits - Appreciating Them this Mother's Day
Episode 129: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Episode 128: The Value of Joy - Finding it Professionally and Personally
Episode 127: Endowments - Their Value and Importance
Episode 126: The Checklist - Simple Way to Eliminate Stress and Create Productivity
Special Edition 13: Sal Khan - Philanthropy in a Different Light
Episode 125: The 7 Mistakes of Making an Ask and How to Fix Them
Episode 124: Burnout - How to Recognize and Deal With at Work and Home
Episode 123: Internal Financial Stress and Decisions
Special Edition 12: Rob and Karen Hale - Smaller Is Better and Endowment Importance
Episode 122: Mid-Level Leadership: Annual Giving - Importance, Perspective, and Execution
Episode 121: Leadership Failure - Dealing with Employee Discipline and Termination
Episode 120 : Accepting and Dealing with Risk
Episode 119: Disagreeing without Being Disagreeable
Episode 118: Process that LEADS to Results
Episode 117: Ensuring Strategy During Challenging Times And Overcoming Short-Termism
Episode 116: Who's in Charge, You or Your Calendar?
Episode 115: Naming Opportunities Challenges - Understanding the Implications
Episode 114: Yes, Sweat the Small Stuff - Impact of the Little Things
Episode 113: 2023 Predictions in the Nonprofit Industry
Episode 112: Review of the 2022 and Predictions Made 12 Months Ago
Episode 111: Donor Advised Funds DAFs - Coming Challenges and the Concept of Power
Episode 110: The Dreaded Overhead - A New Normal Level for Tomorrow
Episode 109: Thanksgiving and Gratitude This Year
Episode 108: My Morning Second Shave - Communication at First and Second Glances
Episode 107: Planned Giving in Inflation and Bear Markets is Critical
Episode 106: The Power Structure Matrix - How To Deal With Power in the Office
Episode 105: Redefining Special Events - Making them MORE Valuable and Present in Philanthropy
Episode 104: Billy Joel and Poetry - The ART of Storytelling
Episode 103 : Are we Listening - And Why that is Important
Episode 102: Education vs Experience in Philanthropy - What is most valued
Episode 101: Firing a Volunteer - How to Avoid if Possible and Execute if Necessary
Episode 100: Communal Experience - Importance and Relationship to Philanthropy
Episode 99: Why is Healthcare so Challenging Now? A Quick Analysis.
Episode 98: Whats a Radio? The Tried and True Old School Lessons of Fundraising
Episode 97: Dealing with Emotions - How to Deal with Them in the Moment
Special Edition 11: Great Philanthropists - Eli Broad and Pushing the Envelope
Episode 96: Morals and Ethics - What are They and How They Affect Nonprofit Organizations
Episode 95: Nonprofits' Investments - How to Help Plan for the Future
Episode 94: The Five Monkeys - Because That is the Way We Have Always Done it
Episode 93: Inflation and Philanthropy - Creative Solutions to Inflation Fundraising Part 2
Episode 92: Inflation and Philanthropy - Understanding the Challenges, Part 1
Episode 91: The Lost Art of Compromise - Making Bad Situations Better
Episode 90: Podcast 100 - The Chinese Farmer and Self Realization
Episode 89: Patriotic Philanthropy - Giving to Your Country, State, City
Episode 88: Leadership Challenges of the Day and What to Do About Them
Special Edition 10: Great Philanthropists - Sir Run Run Shaw, Philanthropy in All of Us
Episode 87: Campaign Philosophies —Traditional and New School
Episode 86: Troubles with Donor Concentration
Episode 85: The Changing Nature of Communicating with Donors
Episode 84: Soft and Hard Skills - What to Look for in a Nonprofit Employee
Episode 83 : Trust-Based Philanthropy: Bucking the Trend of Outcome-Based Stewardship
Episode 82: Naming Opportunities: What is their Real Intent?
Episode 81: When is Close Too Close with Donors?
Episode 80: Managing the Transition from Peer to Boss
Episode 79: Is it Really Hard to Give Money Away?
Episode 78: Board Governance and Formal Positions
Episode 77 : Understanding Generational Giving and Using it to Your Advantage
Episode 76: The Correct Way to Look for a New Job
Episode 75: Understanding the True Nature of Capacity
Special Edition 9: Great Philanthropists - Where Many of Today's Basics Come From
Episode 74: Dealing with Polarization and Controversial Issues in Philanthropy
Episode 73: Building an Office Culture in a Semi-Remote World
Episode 72: Employment Challenges in Nonprofits - Bonus and Incentives in Fundraising Work
Episode 71: Employment Challenges in Non Profits - Career Development Done Right
Episode 70: Employment Challenges in Non Profits - How to Ask for Raise
Special Edition 8: Great Philanthropists - Celebrating Volunteerism
Communication in Challenging Times - Building Relationships
Episode 68: Good Governance in Nonprofits
Episode 67: Dealing with Adversity - Making the Most out of Bad Situations
Episode 66: The Passing of John Madden - Teaching and Learning
Episode 65: Philanthropy, Through the Religions, at the Holidays
Episode 64: 2022 Philanthropy Industry Predictions
Episode 63: 2021 Year in Review and Prediction Recap - How Did We Do?
Special Edition 7: Great Philanthropists - Jim and Virginia Stowers, Giving in Perpetuity
Episode 62: The Hierarchy of Needs, Maslow, and the Work Environment
Episode 61: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, and Health in 2021
Episode 60: Nonprofit Compensation in Today's Economic Environment
Episode 59: The "Big 3" of Boards
Episode 58: Dealing with Change
Episode 57: Planned Giving Part 4 - Infrastructure, Marketing, Communication, and Blended Gifts
Episode 56: Planned Giving Part 3 - Charitable Trusts and Bargain Sales
Special Edition 6: Great Philanthropists - Walter Scott and the Private-Public Partnership
Episode 55: Planned Giving Part 2 - Bequests and CGAs; Making it Easy
Episode 54: Planned Giving - Understanding the Basics and Overcoming Your Fear
Episode 53: Leadership - Innate or Learned; How to Become a Leader
Special Edition: Great Philanthropists - Jim and Marilyn Simons
Episode 52: Understanding and Creating Productivity in Non-Profits
Episode 50: Coaching - Getting to an Individual's Potential and Meeting their Needs
Episode 49: Moves Management - Leveraging Meetings
Episode 48: Government-Nonprofit Partnerships
Special Edition 4: Great Philanthropists - Hansjoerg Wyss, Looking Beyond Yourself to See the Need
Episode 47: Campaigns - New Ways to Look at Campaign Counsel
Episode 46: Campaigns - The Value of Mini-Campaigns
Episode 45: Campaigns - Understanding Case Statements
Episode 44: Campaigns - Feasibility Keys
Episode 43: Results from the 2021 Employment Survey
Special Edition 3: Great Philanthropists - Charles Feeney - Not Waiting to See, Hear the Impact
Episode 42: Employment -- Working with Millennials
Episode 41 : In Search of Self-Actualization
Episode 40: Salaries and Benefits for Non-Profits
Episode 39:Employment Issues in Non-Profits
Special Edition: 2 - Great Philanthropists - Azim Premiji; Finding the Trustees of our Communities
Episode 38: Building a Team through Team-Building
Episode 37: Getting Prospects and Donors to Decision Points
Episode 36: Social Media and its Effects on Philanthropy
Episode 35: Mother's Day Edition - A Salute to Moms
Episode 34: Dealing with Difficult People and Situations
Special Edition: Great Philanthropists - John and Laura Arnold, Using Data
Episode 33: Work-Life Balance
Episode 32: Getting Concierge Services Right
Episode 31: Resources from the Past for Today's Fundraisers
Episode 30: History of Philanthropy
Episode 29: Leadership and Location - Does it Matter?
Episode 28: Talking About Donor-Advised Funds
Episode 27: Planned Giving and Estate Law Changes
Episode 26: Maximizing Success with a Smaller Portfolio Size
Episode 25: Strategic Planning Challenges
Episode 24: Donor Cycle Series - Stewardship
Episode 23: Donor Cycle Series - Solicitation (Asking) and Closing (Part 3 of 4)
Episode 22: Donor Cycle Series - “Cultivating a Prospect” (Part 2 of 4)
Episode 21: Donor Cycle Series - Qualifying a Prospect (Part 1 of 4)
Episode 20 : What about Mentoring -- Doing and Receiving
Episode 19: Program Support Fundraising - Are You Ready?
Episode 18: How to Plan for Success in Trying Times
Episode 17: New Major Gift Officers - ROI Plus Expectations
Episode 16: The Art of Productivity
Episode 15: Your Annual Report
Episode 14: Attention to Detail
Episode 13: New Board Member Orientation
Episode 12: 2021 Non-Profit Predictions
Episode 11: Leadership - What it is and Where to Find it
Episode 10 - How I Got Here, And How That Might Help You
Episode 9: Knowing About and Ensuring Data Security
Episode 8: Leading and Lagging Indicators
Episode 7: Stewarding Emotions
Episode 6: Creating and Understanding Accountability
Episode 5: Artificial Intelligence - Analytics of Tomorrow
Episode 4: Managing Up
Episode 3: Gratitude and Thanksgiving
Episode 2: What to do About Special Events
Episode 1: Why People Give