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#411- Plugging Donor Leaks Before Year-End

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#410 - Why Your Board goes Quiet after Yes

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#409 - The 5 Financial Red Flags Fundraisers Miss

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#408 - Email's Hidden Value: Why Donors Wait

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#407 - The Gen Z Donor Strategy Nobody's Building

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#406 - Who Told You It Was Supposed To Be Easy?

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#405 - Yes! Your Nonprofit Is Allowed To Do This

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#404 - The DAF Money You're Probably Missing

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#403 - DAF Donor Targeting Playbook

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#402 - Your board isn't lazy. They're uninstructed.

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#401 - Why AI Cannot Replace Fundraising Strategy

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#400 - 8 Years, 400 Episodes, and the One Thing I Got Wrong About Marketing

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#399 -Stop Chasing Newly Liquid Founders

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#398 - The Old Way Doesn't work

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#397 - Your Next Million-Dollar Donor Gives $10 a Year

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#396 - How a Teacher-Turned-CEO Landed Her First Six-Figure Gift

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#395 - Why Your Major Gift Program Can't Wait

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#394- What Pricing Strategy Can Teach Us About Major Gifts with Claire Wang

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#393- Burnout, Budget Cuts, and the Future of Fundraising with Glennda Testone

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#392- Fundraising Without Fear: Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability with Andrew Murphy

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#391- What Happens When You Stop Fundraising on Hope with Amy Lester

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#390- The Fundraising Strategy Too Many Nonprofits Ignore with Tess Conrad

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#389- The Human Side of AI with Janine Quijije

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#388- The Development Director Exodus

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#387- The Real Mental Health Crisis No One Is Talking About

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#386- How to Actually Use Wealth Screening (Without Getting Burned) with Tina Duong

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#385- Why Your Boards Won't Fundraise and How to Change That

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#384- Stop Flying Blind: Fix Your Leaky Fundraising System

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#383- Equanimity is a Fundraising Strategy

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#382- Cracking the Oprah Effect with Kyle Woody

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#381- Building Trust and Psychological Safety in Fundraising with Marcia Beckner

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#380- No More Poverty Porn in Fundraising with Maria Rio

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#379- So You're Thinking About a Capital Campaign with Amy Eisenstein

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#378- Why Your Donors Are Ghosting You

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#377- MrBeast Is Not Your Fundraising Strategy

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#376- Boards Don't Avoid Fundraising. They Avoid Embarrassment.

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#375- Why Boards and Executives Keep Talking Past Each Other About Fundraising

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#374- Building a System in 2026

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#373- Out of the Ayahuasca Closet

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#372- Worst Fundraising Advice I've Ever Heard

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#371- Focus on What Matters: Goal Setting for Nonprofit Leaders in 2026

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#370- The Neuroscience of Generosity (and What Fundraisers Get Wrong) with Cherian Koshy

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#369- The Quiet Machinery of Hope

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#368- What Happened in 2025?

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#367- Giving Tuesday Flop...Now What?

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#366- A Giving Tuesday Pep Talk You Actually Need

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#365- Stop Drowning in Admin and Let the Robots Robot

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#364- Giving Tuesday But Make It Major Gifts

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#363- Making the Case for Your Board

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#362- What You Need to Know Before Giving Tuesday with Jess Campbell

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#361- Plugging Donor Leaks Before Year-End

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#360- What K-Pop Demon Hunters Taught me About Fundraising

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#359- Accidental Fundraiser with Stephanie Roth and Haley Bash

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#358- Donor Retention with Erika Carley

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#357- The Hidden Cost of Your Tech with Rachel Bearbower

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#356- The Trust Crisis in Major Gift Fundraising with Greg Warner

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#355- The Future of Fundraising and AI with Brooke Richie-Babbage

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#354- Demystifying DAFs with Mitch Stein

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#353- AI Can't Be Ignored with Nate Wong

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#352- Year End Giving Prep with 10x Crew

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#351- Why the Prime Time Woman is Gold for Fundraisers with Tisha Hyter

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#350- Transforming Nonprofit Boards

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#349- Fundraising Across Generation Divides with Connor Kirkpatrick

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Fundraising Fri-Yay #1- Recession Ready Playbook

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#348- How to Navigate in This Moment with Rhonda Allen

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#347- Advice from a BIPOC Fundraiser with Anysa Holder

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SPECIAL: The #1 Mistake in Donor Emails

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SPECIAL: Why You’re Not Getting a Second Gift

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SPECIAL: The Fix for Panic Fundraising (in 90 Days or Less)

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SPECIAL: Signal vs. Noise: How Fundraisers Waste Their Best Leads

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SPECIAL: Why 92% of Your Donors Have Disappeared

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#346- How an Indie Newsroom Fights Big‑Money Media with Yukari Kane

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#345- Cinderella Nonprofit: How a Brooklyn Debate Coach Went Viral and Raised $1.3 Million in 48 Hours with DiCo

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#344- Beyond Burnout with Dr. Dee Frayne

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#343: Defending Democracy + Raising Money for Policy with Omri Preiss

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#342- Fundraising for International NGO with Katy Troyer

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#341- Building A Nonprofit From Scratch with Dr. Nastassia Harris

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#340- Scaling an Organization to 7 Figures with Jehron Petty

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#339- Stepping Into Consulting with Amber Buck Hamilton

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#338- Power of a Healthy Pipeline with Maria Griffin

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#337- Tenacious Fundraising in Tough Times

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#336- Values Driven Fundraising with Karla Altmayer

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#335- Celebration + Joy as Resistance with Yully Cha

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#334- Retention Marketing with Sean Littman

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#333- Power of Authencity with Jacob Adams

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#332- The State of Nonprofit Staffing with Evan Wildstein and Michelle Flores Vryn

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#331- Power of Community with Kriste Peoples

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#330- Getting Your Board to Fundraise with Faith Galati

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#329- Mastering Major Gifts: A Conversation with Rhea Wong

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#328- Why Your Donor Pipeline is Dry

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#327- How to Expand Your Fundraising with Your Board

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#326- How to Elevate Your Fundraising with Your Team

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#325- 3 Biggest Mistakes You're Making with Donors

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#324- Nonprofit Marketing in 2025: Navigating the Chaos and Creating Real Connections

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#323- Killing Your Fundraising Darlings

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#322- The Edge of Excellence

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#321- Why Your Email Strategy Impacts Fundraising

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#320- Building Trust Through Curiosity

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#319- Let Them

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#318 - Best of 2024

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