Jon and Becky are finishing our Friday series, The Impact Arc, which is uncovering their secret formula...to, well, everything. Thanks to all who joined us to explore how we fundraise, build events, campaigns, movements, community, and even our company too. Tune into this 3-part series breaking down the Impact Arc with this week's #3 pillar: Syndication. Spoiler: if you do syndication well, sustainability and scaling will naturally occur too!

Jon and Becky are continuing to unpack our new Friday series, The Impact Arc, which is uncovering their secret formula...to, well, everything. Thanks to all who joined us last week as we kicked off discussions sharing how we fundraise, build events, campaigns, movements, community, and even our company too. Tune into this 3-part series breaking down the Impact Arc with this week's #2 pillar: Storytelling. Tune in to get all our best storytelling strategies and hacks. 🎧

🚨 New Friday Series Alert! Jon and Becky are launching their new Friday series covering their secret formula...to, well, everything.

It's high time we let you in on our very secret sauce to how we fundraise, build events, campaigns, movements, community, and even our company too. Tune into this 3-part series breaking down the Impact Arc. We kick off this week with our first of 3️⃣ convos: Behold the Power of Staging. Tune in🎧

Meet Christal and Dr. Renee. These two equity teachers are bringing the race discussion to your board to grow one that cares about inclusion and values all people equally. We're talking about meaningful DEI training at the board level, and the feedback/results are truly encouraging🙌 Join us as we chat through the steps of building a journey toward a race-equity culture for our boards.

Meet Pam. This heart-wired Canadian paired her economics Ph.D. with the impact sector, and that research is powering "stickiness" attracting people and getting them to act. We're diving into narrative research (totally fascinating - promise✌️), co-building and the results of the two when paired. Tune in as we talk about moving away from power-control to power-sharing, and the end result is an audience that feels heard, seen, and respected - leading to more donations + increased engagement.

Meet Veronica. Welp, it's happened. We're flummoxed. Veronica has made us believers in the one-sheet strategic plan. Seriously! She's advising nonprofits to move from "we've always done it this way" and "this is best practices" to embrace new, creative and better ways of thinking, planning, and working through a strategic plan. We all need new strategic plans in light of the pandemic, and Veronica's bringing in an entirely new way to think, build, activate, and continually review those plans🧐

Meet Maria. This nonprofit digital marketing whiz centers her work solely in driving "purposeful marketing." We're talking about how to level-Up your impact for purposeful marketing + 2022 nonprofit marketing trends you can’t ignore. She's a firm believer that storytellers make the world a healthier, safer, cleaner, and happier place - and you know we're chatting about that too📖🌍❤️

This Friday series on 8️⃣ Trends That Matter in 2022 is 🔥! This week we're diving deep into our 2nd trend: Think Like a Business. And it feels like Christmas all over again, because we're bringing back nonprofit business genius and Stand Together Foundation Exec. Dir., Evan Feinberg, to talk about why we need to think of innovative ways to create long-term value for donors in order to thrive like a profitable business.

Meet (Becky) Straw. This tenacious social entrepreneur is the co-founder and CEO of The Adventure Project, a nonprofit movement “adding venture” capital to empower entrepreneurs in developing countries. This Diane von Furstenberg People’s Voice Award for female founders and recent recipient of a $1M bitcoin donation is chatting with us about creating movements that marry good intentions with measurable impact.

Meet Chris. This Fortune 500 CFO left his job to chase purpose, and he's never looked back. He's leading one of Southern California's largest nonprofits serving foster youth. Join us and the CEO of the Orangewood Foundation to talk about the plight of foster youth in our country and which for-profit skills are helping his nonprofit thrive like a business. Tune in🎧🦋

MEET RHEA. This Brooklyn thought leader, seasoned fundraiser, and amazing podcast host is sharing how to get in the right mindset as you move into this new year of fundraising. Join us to Get Your Mindset Right for a New Year of Fundraising✌️🎧

💡LEARN
👆Fostering the right mindsets headed into 2022
👆Tactics to combat a scarcity mindset
👆How to build a donor avatar
👆The story of how a child's Hurricane Katrina gift impacted Rhea's life🥲❤️

Meet Katie. As a former nonprofit ED, she's been in the trenches from fundraising to ops to marketing before becoming an industry leader. Today, she leads Do More Good, the parent organization of Nonprofit Hub and Cause Camp which collectively serve more than 50,000 nonprofits throughout North America. We're talking through the trends she's tracking as well as advice she has for nonprofits beyond the New Year. She's dropping some marketing wisdom and shares why you have to stop saying your nonprofit is, "the best kept secret." Tune in to hear why🎧

Meet Sabrina. You asked for a stategic planning conversation, and oh wow, did this incredible expert deliver! She's answering how to keep your strategic plan alive and why we should constantly review, activate and refine it. If you're wondering what to do with your strategic plan now that the world is entirely different, then is your episode. Icing on the cake? We're talking engaging and activating your board + goal setting using your strategic plan as a roadmap too.

We're concluding our final episode in our Friday series, Donor Engagement: Kindergarten Style with this week's discussion about why Small Things Matter. Relationships that are triggered by process may be reliable, but they can also feel mechanical. We're talking about exerting effort and delighting in the small things that creates true connection and deeper engagement 🎉 Tune in, we're bringing principles, case study examples and Pro Tips too.

We're diving back into another Friday series discussions, Donor Engagement: Kindergarten Style. This week we're discussing how to Share Equally. What happens when we democratize our good work, share frameworks, pass the microphone and share our seat at the table? Only the best things! 🎉 Tune in, we're bringing principles, case study examples and Pro Tips too.

We continue to arm ourselves with graham crackers and apple juice to fuel these Friday series discussions, Donor Engagement: Kindergarten Style. This week we dive into Using our Listening Ears (said in the least condescending way possible). How are you consciously finding a way to listen not only to your top donors - but ALL donors, employees, & volunteers? Don't fret - we're breaking it down🎉 We're bringing principles, case study examples, and Pro Tips too.

We've been hearing great feedback from our new Friday series, Donor Engagement: Kindergarten Style. This week we dive into what we can learn from Playing Nicely in the Sandbox. Development is a team sport. Internal relationships are vital to your success, and external relationships can be creatively advantageous too (seriously, we're sharing some awesome examples!)🎉 We're bringing principles, case study examples, and Pro Tips of how to infuse this into your culture.

Are you aware that everything you ever wanted to know about NEXT LEVEL donor engagement is found in those time-honored lessons learned in kindergarten? We're launching a new Friday series, Kindergarten Principles Build Thriving Nonprofit Cultures. This week we dive into what we can learn from The Golden Rule. We're bringing principles, case study examples, and Pro Tips of how to infuse this in your culture to each discussion, so you know who's implementing this well and who's harnessing innovation to connect with their donors and communities. Join us, and we'll kick it old school🤓 We'll bring the graham crackers!

Meet Evan. This starry-eyed dreamer sought to change the world first through politics before pivoting into the nonprofit sector after finding his passion awakened in social service. In five years, his organization built one of the largest and most effective anti-poverty nonprofit communities in the country. Tune in and hear how the Stand Together Foundation viewed poverty as an innovation problem and began to look for solutions in new spaces to unleash human potential. It's a brilliant discussion into innovation, storytelling & they're even giving funding away to high-impact orgs who are breaking cycles and changing lives. You might be one of them!

Meet Aila. She loves molding strong leaders and getting organizations pointed toward success - which means she joins them in the trenches. She's come to know that if leaders enter from a place of humility and ready to learn from everything/everyone, then great partnerships are built from the ground level. We know many leaders are asking now, "How can I lead well during this crazy season of change?" Well, Aila's taking our hand and walking us through the steps to be an in-tune, inspiring leader. BONUS: she's providing tips for rolling out a new vision too.