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Nonprofit Everything — 206 episodes
Board Member’s Program Idea
Boosting Event Attendance
Celebrating a Retiring CEO
Replacing Federal Funding
Should Big Donors Get Special Treatment?
Attracting Younger Donors
Are Strategic Plans Dead?
Preventing Nonprofit Burnout
Nonprofit Predictions for 2026
Beyond the SWOT Analysis
What Expenses to Cut in a Bad Year?
No Staff in Board Meetings
AI Board Minutes
Disengaged Board Members
Treasurer Risks
Am I Being Forced to Retire?
Donor wants Executive Director Fired
Maintaining a Founder’s Vision
Recruiting Board Members
Should the executive director be on the board?
Staff Ambassadors
Serious Financial Struggles
Better Funder Site Visits
Board Member Burnout
Talking to the Media
Creating a First Fundraising Budget
Raising Unrestricted Funds
Benefits for Remote Workers
Board Members are Fighting
Endowments!
Overhead Percentage Targets
Corporate Volunteering
Marketing with Limited Capacity with Guest Expert Lisa Nelsen
Distilling Impact for Social Media
Why even be a nonprofit?
How are nonprofit arts organizations different? with Guest Expert Alan Harrison
Avoiding Negative News Stories
Attracting Younger Board Members
What does a new board need to know?
Fundraising for Capacity Building
Getting the Board to Ask More Questions
Hiring a First Development Director
Donor Advised Funds
Founding Executive Director is Resistant to Change
Do you need a strategic planning consultant?
What Committees Should Be Board Run?
Expanding Your Corps of Volunteers
Converting from All Volunteer Run
Politics and Nonprofits
Political Candidates and Events – with Guest Expert April Mastroluca
Buying Mailing Lists
Can the Executive Director Veto a Board Nomination?
When is a Sponsorship a Donation?
Emeritus Boards
Boring Meetings
Cancel our Capital Campaign?
Independent Contractors with Titles – with guest expert Gina Bongiovi
Theory of Change
Selling T-Shirts
Gathering Client Stories
Do we need a “one-pager”?
A Better Holiday Party?
Who Gets the Credit Card Points?
Build a Relationship or Ask For Money?
Does a “Donate Now” Button Trigger State Registrations?
Taking Out a Loan for Fundraising
Questions to Ask in a Job Interview
Keeping the Newsletter out of the Spam Folder
Engaging Your Board In Fundraising
Who Really Takes the Minutes?
Should We Accept Dirty Money?
What Should Nonprofits Know About AI?
Freshening Up a Mature Organization’s Story
Applying for two grants for the same program?
Should the Board Chair Apply for the ED Position?
Responding To A Racist Comment with Guest Expert Mary Beth Hartleb
Fundraising from Friends and Family
Capital Campaigns
Board and Staff Don’t Trust Each Other
Social Media Influencer Campaigns – with Guest Expert Nick Lynch
Should I Get an Advanced Degree in Nonprofit Management?
Inclusive Hiring – With Guest Expert Margo Walsh
Struggling with Culture in a Hybrid Workplace
Selecting Fundraising Software with Guest Expert Peter Schiano of Tech Impact
Money Instead of Things
Avoiding Founder’s Syndrome
Specific Appeals that are Still Undesignated? – With Guest Expert Barbara O’Reilly
Can We Put Our Executive Director on Commission?
Should Staff Have a Voice in Hiring the New Executive Director?
Is this UBI?
Growing Program Staff into Fundraisers?
Hosting a Fundraiser in a Different State
Setting Goals for a New Development Person
Responding to Memorial Gifts
Restricted Gifts and Mergers
Running a Nonprofit More Like a Business
Responding to Reports of Microagressions – with Guest Expert André C. Wade
Should we have elected officials on our board?
Designing a Mission Statement
Preparing for a Tough Foundation Tour
Options for Compassionate Medical Leave, with Guest Expert Tracy Gniewek
Rethinking the Volunteer Handbook, with Guest Expert Almendra Johnson
What percent of grants should we win?
Responding to a Board Member’s Scandal
Managing Confidential Employee Complaints
No Fundraising Expense on the Form 990
New Manager is Too Quiet!
Managing Two Very Different Employees
Getting a Startup Nonprofit Off the Ground
Common Federal Grant Questions
Are We Overreporting?
What Role Does the Board Have in Setting Staff Salaries
Board Development Committee vs. Staff Responsibilities
Management is Chronically Overworking Staff
Who to Thank for an IRA Donation?
Nonprofits and Social Media Influencers
Lobbying and Advocacy with Guest Expert April Mastroluca
Board Member Wants the ED to Record a Political Campaign Message
Preserving Culture During Expansion
Should we be applying for Federal Grants?
All Finance Questions Special
Are Ratings Agencies Important?
The Board Chair Wants to be CCd on Every Email!
Preparing Your Form 990 for Use as a Marketing Tool
Ransomware
My boss keeps inviting me to events!
Board Member Insulting Nonprofit Workers
Board Member’s Troublesome Tweets
Events! With Terri Janison and Christian Kolberg
What Does Our Fundraising Staff Do?
Forcing the ED to Take a Raise
Using Donor Screening Services
Founder Retires but Wants to Stay Involved
Y U HATE GALAS?!
Joining Other Nonprofit Boards
Building an Event Sponsor List from Scratch
Should We Ask a Donor Why Another Nonprofit Got More?
Shift to a Fee for Service Model
Managing Volunteers in a Pandemic
Both Christmas Card and End of Year Letter?
Do for-profit salespeople make good fundraisers?
Is it Legal to have a Single-Ethnicity Board?
A Board with a Budget Deficit
Equipment Policies and Data Security with Amy Sample Ward of NTEN
Selling My Nonprofit
The Threat Section of the SWOT Analysis
Social Media
Layoffs
Greatest Hits?
A Grantwriting Intern
National Office is Reducing Compensation -updated
Social Justice
Complaining to the Board Chair
The Return on Investment Grant Question
Red Flags for Prospective Executive Director
Young Employee Just Isn’t Respected
More Nonprofit Myths
Pandemic HR Questions with Guest Expert Amy Hunter
How are Nonprofits Handling the Pandemic?
Nonprofit or Benefit Corporation?
Employees Badmouthing Your Nonprofit
Skilled Volunteer without the Skills
Kumbaya
Chatty Cathy
That’s a Cooper’s Hawk
But is it Sustainable?
If this is an emergency, call 911
Let’s Call Everybody “Volunteer”
Double Expert Action!
Look out! A bus!
Put a Label Over It
Aloha!
ANN Membership is $75 off
Not My Fault!
Special – Breaking Down Silos
Dog and Pony Show
Good Luck!
Run for the Hills!
They’re Flying in from Cleveland?
Andy Forgot the Flowers
100% Conflict of Interest
Criminal for a Day
More Drunk at the Gala
Drunk at the Gala
Special – Facebook Fundraisers with Julia Campbell
Survivor’s Guilt
The Stretch Goal is “Don’t Quit”
Bitcoin?
Galas for Salaries
Stickiness and Friction
Holiday Bonus Episode
When the Passion is Gone
Fundraising in a World of Science
Promote All the Volunteer Coordinators
Weed Money
Crystal Dishes
Special – How Do I Start a Nonprofit, with Bob Cushman of SCORE
September might be a stretch
Bi-monthly or Bi-weekly or Something
A mattress full of cash
Sorry, but coffee is more important than your cause
Did we mention the $20,000 board commitment?
Supercharge Your Fundraising with Paint
You Hired Who?
How to Auction a Horse
Marketing vs. Development – FIGHT!