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728: Prudence In Our Political Environment – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:06:58This Week: Prudence In Our Political Environment Following from our December episode, “Is It Paranoia Or Prudence?,” Gene Takagi and Amy Sample Ward return with updates from the grass roots on DEI, USAID and other spending freezes, major media capitulation, and information on a potential reincarnation of last year’s H.R. 9495 bill. Most importantly…
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727: The 4 Mindsets – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:15:36This Week: The 4 Mindsets Over his years working with nonprofits, Dan Johnson has developed four mindsets, or principles, which he encourages leaders to embrace, and spread throughout their teams. He invites us to get comfortable with: The point is impact; the sustainable impact cycle; donors are partners, and, how volunteers get paid. He shares th…
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This Week: Consider Video There are lots of video use cases you may not have in mind. Like employee recruiting, donor stewardship, and volunteer recruiting and thanking. After you identify how video might work for your nonprofit, you need the right equipment, which doesn’t mean spending a lot. Then there’s preparation, shooting and editing. Pat Tag…
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725: Your Grantmaker Relationships – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:13:08This Week: Your Grantmaker Relationships Shoshana Grossman-Crist leads you through the pathway of relationships with institutional funders. She reveals her advice on how to build and maintain relationships before you apply for a grant; while your proposal is under review; after you’ve been funded; and, while you’re doing the work. Also, what if the…
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724: Storytelling – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:00:08This Week: Storytelling Sarah Wood reminds us of the value in telling good stories to your stakeholders. Also, how do you tell them? Where do you tell them? Which ones are worth telling? What’s ethical storytelling? And, what’s the right engagement or call to action? We pull some lessons from her children’s favorite stories, the “Narwhal and Jelly”…
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723: “Ambiguity Is The Answer” – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:00:48This Week: “Ambiguity Is The Answer” Though wildly counterintuitive, producing and embracing ambiguity can give you the upper hand when it looks like you have no hand to play. Stop thinking of ambiguity as something you must react to and avoid. Start seeing the value in cultivating it. Kyle Crawford’s book is “Ambiguity Is The Answer” and he explai…
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“Don’t Mess With Stress” In 2025 – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:05:56This Week: “Don’t Mess With Stress” In 2025 Dr. Jill Baron walks us through her four cornerstones for minimizing stress and maximizing wellness in the New Year: diet, meditation, walking (or other exercise), and sleep. Plus, your mental and emotional resilience. She’s our first medical doctor guest, and her book is “Don’t Mess With Stress.” There’s…
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This Week: Looking To 2025: Is It Paranoia Or Prudence? Our esteemed contributors share what they’re looking to next year, with the uncertainty of a new president and administration. On the table is HR 9495, which some call the NonprofitKiller; government agencies no longer given deference by the federal courts, with the Supreme Court overruling th…
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This Week: The Art & Science Of Fundraising James Misner explains what he sees as the right and left brain activities of your nonprofit’s fundraising. There are relationships and data; stories and metrics; motivations and outcomes; emotions and systems; and, more brain interactions. Your objective is to balance the art and the science. James is CEO…
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This Week: The Chronicle of Philanthropy Leaders Stacy Palmer is CEO of the now nonprofit newspaper, and the editor-in-chief is Andrew Simon. We talk about the transition from privately held to 501(c)(3); their plans for growth; the mission, values and priorities guiding them; new content that’s coming; improving mass media’s coverage of our commun…
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718: Passion Isn’t Enough – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:07:02This Week: “Passion Isn’t Enough” That’s David Rhode’s new book. “It’s necessary, but not sufficient,” says the author. He brings us his practical advice on building your programs, your board, your brand, your team and your volunteer community. His expertise has value for aspiring, new and experienced nonprofit leaders alike. David is CEO of DotDot…
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717: Scaling Altruism – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:08:43This Week: Scaling Altruism That’s Donald Summers’ new book, where he introduces the seven phases of nonprofit growth derived from his research and practice. He walks us through assess, align, plan, test, fund, execute, and lead, so your nonprofit scales to meet the demands of your mission and vision. He’s the CEO of Altruist Partners. There’s more…
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716: Accepting Cryptocurrency Gifts – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:05:09This Week: Accepting Cryptocurrency Gifts Code. Blockchain. Proofs. Wallets. Exchanges. Coins. If foreign words like these keep you from accepting a gift that tens of millions of Gen Z and Millennials invest in and gift, Pat Duffy will set your mind at ease. He defines the terms in plain language and explains why crypto giving belongs on your donat…
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This Week: Your One-Page Strategic Plan In a lot of ways, we can see typical strategic planning as a flawed process. Veronica LaFemina shares a more collaborative endeavor, with more staff collaboration and stakeholder inputs, resulting in a more actionable plan with greater decision-making value. She’s the CEO of LaFemina & Co. There’s more at ton…
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This Week: Your Strategic Partnerships Local nonprofits, companies, government officials and agencies, business leaders, and others can improve your outcomes in ways you cannot imagine. Taking the time to build relationships with potential partners—before you need them—makes a smart investment in your mission and programs. Mark Lillis from Leaven K…
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This Week: How We Got Here It’s the story of the unpredictable trajectory that led to today’s U.S. nonprofit sector. How did we come to be what we are? The history is told by Dr. Robert Penna, author of the book, “Braided Threads.” (This originally aired August 3, 2018.) There’s more at tonymartignetti.com…
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This Week: Tech Policies To Reduce Toxic Productivity First, what is toxic productivity? Then, as your teams use technology more often for work, how might your practices be hurting the people who work with you? Finally, what are the better practices and policies? It’s all covered by Marina Martinez-Bateman, at New Coyote Consulting. (This originall…
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711: Grants Readiness & Success – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:03:32This Week: Grants Readiness & Success DeaRonda Harrison helps you get ready to accept grants and shares strategies for successful grants research, writing and outcomes. Also, how to win grants quickly (it shouldn’t take years!); how to turn a one-time grant into multiyear funding; and her recommendations for grant research platforms. DeaRonda is th…
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710: AI, Organizational & Personal – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:17:02This Week: AI, Organizational & Personal Artificial Intelligence is ubiquitous, so here’s another conversation about its impacts on the nonprofit and human levels. Amy Sample Ward, the big picture thinker, the adult in the room, contrasts with our host’s diatribe about AI sucking the humanity out of nonprofit professionals and all unwary users. Amy…
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709: Quantitative Fundraising Research – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:01:16This Week: Quantitative Fundraising Research You can stop relying on conventional wisdom passed on through webinars and conferences. There’s a plethora of quantitative research on how to optimize storytelling to get your best fundraising outcomes. What is social emotion, how do you evoke it and why should you? How much story detail is not enough or…
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This Week: Board Members Are People Too One size fits all rules may not make sense for your board, especially if you’re embracing diversity and equity in board membership. Judy Levine is a longtime board coach, trainer and consultant, and she led Cause Effective for 17 years. She’s now an independent consultant. This originally aired August 15, 202…
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This Week: A Different Take On Donor Retention Most donor retention research is on process. Like, get your acknowledgment letters out within 24 hours. Kerry Hecht’s research takes a fresh look at how to keep folks with you. She shares her thinking on getting people to donate time (volunteering), and donating through purchases. Kerry is CEO of 10k H…
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706: Community & Engagement – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:00:30This Week: Community & Engagement Michelle Boggs shares her thinking on creating community and expanding engagement across your donors and volunteers. How might a Chief Community Officer help? Also, what your nonprofit can do to improve fundraiser retention, which helps you build solid relationships and community. Michelle is with Classy, the nonpr…
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705: Empowering Women – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:02:11This Week: “Empowering Women” Jenny Mitchell’s new book, “Embracing Ambition,” unites the leadership stories of twelve exceptional women CEOs. The result is a mentorship resource for the current and next generation of women leaders. She shares the challenges, including perception barriers, glass cliff assignments and collective vision. Jenny is chi…
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This Week: “The Responsive Nonprofit” That’s Gabe Cooper’s new book. He walks us through the 8 core practices that will disrupt the status quo and make your nonprofit responsive. Like dismantling silos, adopting agile methods, managing change, building a durable team culture, and more. Gabe is CEO of Virtuous. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com…
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This Week: Get Heard In The Election Season Peter Panepento returns with savvy advice about getting your messages heard through crowded, noisy channels for the rest of this year. He urges you to prepare your messaging, prepare to pivot away from that messaging, and more. Plus, the value of journalist relationships. Peter comes to us from Turn Two C…
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702: High ROI Development & Marketing Communications Teams – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:03:30This Week: High ROI Development & Marketing Communications Teams You want these two teams—fundraising and marcomm—to align every fundraising hour with its maximum dollars. You want these teams to have the time to secure investment level gifts. And you want them to secure the unrestricted gifts you need to grow and sustain your mission. Sherry Quam …
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701: How To Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:17:15This Week: “How To Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back” That’s Meico Marquette Whitlock’s new book, and he returns to share his wisdom. The Mindful Techie has advice like honor your priorities; negotiate your boundaries; embody your well-being; mind your meds; and quite a bit more. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com…
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700: 700th Show! Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:12:16This Week: 700th Show! It’s Nonprofit Radio’s 700th show and 14th Anniversary. To celebrate, co-host Claire Meyerhoff brings “Claire’s Quiz.” We have our associate producer, Kate Martignetti, live music from Scott Stein, and our contributors Gene Takagi (law), and Amy Sample Ward (technology), are also on board. Also, our sponsors Donorbox and Virt…
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699: Exploit Conflict & Intuition To Make Better Programs & Products – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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This Week: Exploit Conflict & Intuition To Make Better Programs & Products Our panel from the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference is Drew Nelson, Cassi Johnson and Eve Lacivita. They explain how to add conflict resolution and intuition-driven strategies into your program and product development. Drew is with the City of Saint Paul, MN; Cassi is at…
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This Week: Improve Your Communications With AI Carlos Morales, from Viva Technology, shares how to use specific ChatGPT prompts to accelerate your written drafts; optimize your messaging for clarity and audience; and, personalize your outreach as you maintain a consistent voice, tone and brand. All through artificial intelligence. (This was recorde…
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This Week: Use Your Tech To Enable Generosity Our panel encourages you to expand your definition of generosity and how you measure it, to better acknowledge diverse forms of giving. They help you facilitate generosity through your data, tech and business processes. They’re Jamie Mueller with PTKO; Peter Genuardi at See the Stars; and, Natania LeCle…
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696: The Essential Craft Of Leaving Your Job & Data Privacy – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:13:36This Week: The Essential Craft Of Leaving Your Job This provocative panel shares their real stories to inspire you if working at your job, isn’t working for you. They recommend you leave well, and share their advice for your handover plan along with tips for setting up your successor or team for future success. They also help you manage your emotio…
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This Week: Gen Z Career Challenges After a deeply personal episode, Ray Sherry devoted himself to helping Gen Z’ers—like the one who saved his life—with their careers. He channels his 40 years of experience in financial services and consulting to share his advice, so younger professionals take charge of their careers. Ray is CEO of Zynd. There’s mo…
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This Week: Future-Proof Your Nonprofit With Apps, Tools & Tactics Jason Shim and Meico Marquette Whitlock return from the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference, with their annual collection of tech to help you manage your tech. From collaboration to inbox management, from transcription to hidden Zoom tools, this panel will help you find greater bala…
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This Week: Your Four-Day Work Week This 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference panel introduces you to the national campaign for a 32-hour, 4-day work week. They’re the executive director of the campaign, a company that made the switch and a nonprofit that did, too. They’re Vishal Reddy from Work Four, Karim Bouris with Mixte Communications and Patti…
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692: Strategic Meetings For Teams Of One & Cyber Incident Cases And Takeaways – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
This Week: Strategic Meetings For Teams Of One As our 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference coverage continues, Janice Chan returns with the savvy idea of adapting team meeting principles to a team of just one. She’ll have you thinking of yourself as a team leader, rather than one person doing everything. Janice is at Shift and Scaffold. Cyber Incid…
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691: Sociocracy & Attract More Donors – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:00:14This Week: Sociocracy It’s a new form of decision making you might want to try out. Justin Birdsong from Skeleton Key Strategies introduces us to circle structures, domains and aims, and linking roles, as he acquaints us with this more equitable and inclusive, sociocratic decision making method. (Recorded at the 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference…
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This Week: Experiential Fundraising Let’s take lessons from the experience economy to create meaningful, memorable experiences for your donors. Brittan Stockert, from Donorbox, walks us through her thinking on events, membership programs, challenges, sponsorships, and more. There’s more at tonymartignetti.com…
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689: Prompt Engineering For Beginners & Get The Most From Your Current Tech – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:13:29This Week: Prompt Engineering For Beginners Our 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference coverage continues. This panel explains how to get the most out of the generative Artificial Intelligence tools when you write your cues, or prompts, to them. You want ChatGPT and their ilk to serve you best, so here’s wisdom from Nyle Malik and Alfredo Ramirez, th…
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688: Acquiring Email Leads On Social & Matching Gifts 101, 201, 301 – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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This Week: Acquiring Email Leads On Social This 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference conversation helps you ensure your email acquisition efforts are targeting those interested in your work. You can incentivize your social audiences so they’ll willingly share their emails and you can measure the success of your acquisition campaigns. Melanie Schaff…
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687: A Step Back On Artificial Intelligence & Get Your Team To The Next Level – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:04:47This Week: A Step Back On Artificial Intelligence Beth Kanter and Philip Deng urge you to consider the ethical challenges your nonprofit should grapple with before fully adopting generative AI in your work. They’ve got advice for an ethical use policy and guidelines for training. Beth is an author, master trainer and facilitator. Philip is CEO of G…
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This Week: The Generational Divide Across the generations, people think about work differently. They all have different needs. They all bring different skills. They work for different reasons. They communicate in different ways. But they have one thing in common: Every generation wants to be heard and respected. Miriam Dicks helps you manage across…
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685: Email Deliverability & Email Welcome Journeys – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:10:52This Week: Email Deliverability In our age of rampant spam and artificial intelligence, you need to know how to give your emails the best chance of getting delivered. What are DMARC, DKIM and SPF, and how do they help with deliverability? This 2024 Nonprofit Technology Conference panel is Jamie McClelland, Natalie Brenner and Alice Aguilar, all fro…
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684: Avoid Technical Debt & Your Technical Roadmap – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:02:11This Week: Avoid Technical Debt Our 24NTC coverage continues, to help you avoid crushing tech debt that would bust your budget and cause you a big headache. Our panel encourages you to manage and maintain your IT infrastructure and software so that costs are managed. They’re Jagan Narayanan, from Fourth Dimension Technologies, and the tech speaker,…
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683: Living Our Values & Healing Over Everything – Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio
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1:04:55This Week: Living Our Values The first of our 24NTC conversations is with our technology contributor and the CEO of NTEN, Amy Sample Ward. They give us the numbers around the conference, and remind us to walk the walk on our nonprofit’s values, including centering equity. Healing Over Everything Wellness in your workplace. Is that a value your nonp…
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This Week: Artificial Intelligence For Nonprofits, Redux A second savvy panel takes on the impact, leadership demands, promises, responsibilities, and future of AI across the nonprofit community. We convened a panel in June last year. But this is an enormous shift in nonprofit workplaces that deserves another look. This panel is Justin Spelhaug, fr…
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This Week: Election Year Activities In this presidential election year, everything related to politics is prohibited, right? Not so fast. It’s not that simple. There are actions you can take, including lobbying on ballot measures. As long as you follow the rules. There’s no one better to explain those rules than Gene Takagi, our legal contributor. …
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This Week: Publish Your Book, Thought Leader Thought leadership can be valuable to you, your nonprofit, or both. Publishing a nonfiction book is one way to become a thought leader or expand your credentials. From outlining and writing to publishing and marketing, Stephanie Chandler shares her personal experiences and professional wisdom. She’s CEO …
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This Week: Your Partnerships With FGWs First Generation Wealth creators have different values and mindsets than those who inherited their wealth. And FGWs far outnumber the inheritors. Esther Choy’s research helps you understand these folks and how to build valuable relationships with them. She’s president of Leadership Story Lab. (This originally …
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