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Donor Cultivation

Human-Centric Fundraising

In this episode, host David Upcraft chats with Rob Woods, director of Bright Spot Fundraising, about the power of innovative [...]

January 28, 2025| < 1 min Read

Sector Trends

Insights from the Giving USA Annual Report on Philanthropy

October 17, 2024| < 1 min Read

Crisis Management

How to Respond to Crises While Avoiding Mission Creep

July 10, 2023| < 1 min Read

Employee Volunteering

Revitalizing Volunteer Programs at Jackson: Overcoming Barriers to Participation

January 22, 2025| < 1 min Read

Grateful Patient

Create a Successful Doctors’ Day Fundraising Strategy

February 29, 2024| < 1 min Read

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Professional Development

Turning Failure into Impact

The last year has brought a lot of change and a lot of new learnings. And from healthcare to poverty [...]

May 13, 2021 |23 min Listen

Budgeting

Preparing for Budget Shifts

There’s always something that can throw your organization’s budget off track. Some crises are worse than others – the COVID-19 [...]

May 6, 2021 |21 min Listen

Professional Development

Building a Network

Relationships are everything. While networking may be a buzzword, intentionally building a community and making deep and meaningful connections can [...]

April 29, 2021 |23 min Listen

Diversity Equity and Inclusion

How Households Make Giving Decisions

For decades, fundraisers have been trying to understand some of the differences in philanthropic giving between men and women. And, [...]

April 23, 2021 |25 min Listen

Digital Marketing

Engaging Live Streamers

This episode was originally published in September 2019. We are sharing it again now as live streaming only becomes more [...]

April 16, 2021 |30 min Listen

Professional Development

Crafting an Effective Elevator Pitch

Today’s guest has a mission, and that mission is to teach the people who are doing good how to get [...]

April 8, 2021 |30 min Listen

Donor Cultivation

How Athletes Are Engaging in Philanthropy

In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Joanne Pasternack, president & chief impact officer at Oliver+Rose and creator of Athletes’ Voices, [...]

April 2, 2021 |36 min Listen

Professional Development

Strategies for Avoiding Tech Burnout

We already relied on technology to communicate before the pandemic, but over the past year we’ve become even more dependent [...]

March 25, 2021

Change Management

Why Adaptive Strategy is the New Strategic Plan

The last year has taught us that change is the only constant – however, that makes it difficult to stick [...]

March 11, 2021

Professional Development

Promoting Your Value as a Database Administrator

Database administrators (also commonly called database managers, DBAs or DBMs) are often operating behind the scenes, outside of the spotlight. [...]

March 4, 2021

Donor Cultivation

Running a Successful Giving Day

For a number of years now, more organizations have been running their own giving days as part of their regular [...]

February 25, 2021 |24 min Listen

Change Management

Moving Your Organization from Scarcity to Abundance

Sometimes, change is hard – especially when it seems that there isn’t enough money or other resources to accomplish your [...]

February 18, 2021

Data Health

Using Data and Personas to Retain “COVID Donors”

Learn how your social good organization can retain donors acquired during the last year during the COVID-19 pandemic by better leveraging data, analytics and personas.

February 11, 2021

Change Management

Interpersonal Skills for Today’s Changing Workplace

Interpersonal and communications skills are vitally important for achieving success in the workplace. Learn the five most important skills to master.

February 4, 2021 |25 min Listen

Digital Marketing

How to Grow an Online Community

Lesley Pinder, Head of Supporter Experience for British Red Cross and Lucy Caldicott, Founder of ChangeOut, discuss the Fundraising Chat Facebook group, as an example of online community development.

January 21, 2021 |27 min Listen

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