We all love our boards. But are we really leveraging them to their full potential? They just might be the volunteers closest to your mission, and knowing how to engage them (rather than simply talk at them) possesses the key to unpacking next level connections but also cultivating them toward their gift in the process. Join Jon + Becky as dive into Back to Basics: Boards. We're talking through basic board responsibilities, board mapping and common governance mistakes. Tune in 🎧

Meet Dominic. He's a humanitarian and innovator, and he knows how to mobilize massive audiences toward good. At the age of 20, he founded Missions.Me and began organizing strategic outreach campaigns in cities across Latin America. Today, his Love Has No Limits grassroots org has an audacious goal: calling all to be part of the greatest display of love Southern California has ever experienced through volunteer efforts addressing homelessness, poverty and other crippling community issues. Learn how to inspire and mobilize rabid fans, or join the Love Has No Limits event this month!

Meet Sianne. Her passion is simple: bring the philanthropic community together working toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Why? Because we know unified efforts lead to greater global equity for all. As a Chief Impact Officer and dual qualified lawyer in the UK and in her native South Africa, Sianne builds more impact equity for the London-based Maanch organization through an impact-platform uniting philanthropy, impact investors and corporations. We're talking impact investing and how to check off the world's Honey Do list. Tune in!

Just when we thought we had Corporate American figured out, the world went and threw a global pandemic at us, and everything flowing from that experience has reshaped what we all know about corporate giving. Join us as Jon + Becky walk us through Back to Basics: Corporate Giving. We're talking through types of corporate philanthropy, CSR, reimagining corporate engagement and trends we see looming post-pandemic for employee-driven, socially-minded businesses. Spoiler: How you meaningfully partner with companies matters now more than ever.

Meet Taneshia. She's a social change agent and community developer who centers cultural equity in her work. As the President and CEO of Newark Symphony Hall, a historic performing arts center, she's using arts and culture as an economic development tool for the resurgence of Newark, N.J. She's also talking about how employing an entrepreneurial mindset for social change has created jobs, community engagement, and - of course - fueled donations for her nonprofit. We are cheering her ingenuity and creativity as a disruptive leader in our sector!

Back-to-Basics this week is diving into one of the brightest spots in our sector: donor relations. We're talking all things stewardship, acknowledgment, recognition and engagement, but naturally we're putting that WAFG spin on them to ensure you're not diluting the experience for those who are not in your top 1%. In short, we're talking about how to love on your people while also showing impact. It's one of those awesome feel-good conversations - where you can also learn!

Meet Tania. This former nonprofit ED is passionate about building thought leadership branding. Never heard of it? We hadn't either, but we are huge believers after this conversation. It's about abundantly sharing your lived experience, passion and expertise to build trust with the right audience on the right topic. She's walking us through it PLUS giving a mini masterclass on how to leverage LinkedIn. Steel yourself for an epic conversation with a seriously good human.

We kicked off our new Friday series Back to Basics last week focusing on Annual Giving...but naturally we added a We Are For Good arc on how build upon the basics. This week we're diving in the science AND art of major giving ❤️ We'll talk strategy, structures, examples and infuse that We Are For Good arc into this conversation too. Tune in Friday for Basic to Basics: Major Gifts.

Meet Laura. She's a mom of three who - alongside her husband - found herself launching a global nonprofit focused on eradicating human trafficking because she simply couldn't look away. What began by running undercover work alongside SE Asian police grew into their nonprofit, The Exodus Road. Her story is shocking. Heartbeaking. Hopeful. Inspiring. And it's looking for a compassionate army to help them find and free victims worldwide... You game?

Meet Eric. This musician chased his passion for doing good, telling a compelling story and weaving it all together through brilliant creative into building Cosmic, a Social Impact Creative Agency. He's talking us through how to build a Digital Media Platform to promote your cause and stepping us through the Engagement Pyramid. He's also talking through vision statements, and we're trying not to maintain our composure and refrain from drooling all over Cosmic's heart-stirring manifesto. If you're looking for an incredible digital storytelling episode, this one is your jam.

Here's the thing. We all have something to learn in this space, but sometimes we're too shy/embarrassed/bored to ask for a basic tutorial. We've been there🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ So Jon + Becky are launching a new Friday series called Back to Basics. We're going to be diving into the fundamentals of donor relations, operations, planned giving, events, campaigns, branding and several other general development topics. Why? Because we see a lot of young professionals joining our sector, as well as those who have left for-profit to chase the social good dream and just other Do Gooders looking to help their passion organizations. We want you trained quickly so you can do your thing on the front lines❤️ We'll talk strategy, structures, examples and our own success and failures. So tune in as we kick off our convo with Basic to Basics: Annual Giving.

Meet Cameron. This digital marketer and fundraiser helps hundreds of charities fundraise more by creating journeys that guide donors from their first interaction to becoming lifelong advocates. And the answer isn't a complicated one. It's threaded through an intentional donor journey. Cameron believes too many people neglect the power of capturing an email and using it the right way to build this journey. So he's helping us map one out to get started. His personal story of philanthropy is reason enough to tune in 🎧

Meet Birgit. She's our modern-day Renaissance woman in philanthropy. As founder of the African American Development Officers Network, Chair-Elect of Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Global and executive director of foundation relations for Georgia Institute of Technology, she's a triple threat in the development sector - in the best way! We're talking about the power of diversifying the talent pipeline in philanthropy and why "inclusion" should be a word we're all fighting to embrace and infuse as evergreen values in our organizations.

Ever wanted to have a cup of coffee with Jon and Becky so you could lift the veil on those same questions we volley to our guests? Then you're going to love our next series: Get To Know Us. Coffee Talk with We Are For Good. For the next two weeks, we're going to be interviewing each other on all things philanthropy, business, family, failure, hilarious moments and irreverent facts. We don't know each other's questions, so all the reactions you hear are live and sincere. Oh, and be prepared to laugh. A lot.

Ever wanted to have a cup of coffee with Jon and Becky so you could lift the veil on those same questions we volley to our guests? Then you're going to love our next series: Get To Know Us. Coffee Talk with We Are For Good. For the next two weeks, we're going to be interviewing each other on all things philanthropy, business, family, failure, hilarious moments and irreverent facts. We don't know each other's questions, so all the reactions you hear are live and sincere. Oh, and be prepared to laugh. A lot.

Meet Skyler & Christina. He's the donor-turned-CEO of this incredible nonprofit serving thousands in southern Haiti through education, healthcare, water/sanitation and economic development. She's the Haitian-American sociologist who's collaborating with numerous entrepreneurs to obtain grants/loans and technical support to help them grow their business. Together, alongside a powerful team of Do Gooders, they're infusing their time-honored values into a culture that's thriving and valuing all people equitably. Only tune in if you want to be ridiculously inspired.

Meet Dan. His TED Talk "The Way We Think About Charity is Dead Wrong," went viral less than a decade ago and has been viewed millions of times by starry-eyed dreamers everywhere who are intent on using their creativity and innovation to do good. [insert image of us frantically waving as some of these believers] We're talking nonprofit disruption, marketing, involving your kids in philanthropy and generally working hard not to fangirl over him too much. Join us for the convo we've been waiting to have since the first time we hit play.

Jon, Becky and Julie are taking you behind the studio curtain. It's our Season 2 Recap! Get ready for our Season-2-in-Review discussion where you'll learn our favorite episodes, favorite mic drop moments and the greatest takeaways offered these last four months. If you're a Cliff Notes-kind of note taker, this is the quickest way to learn about the best-of-the-best of our convos since January.

Meet Mike. You're about to meet one of the world's most kind, giving CEOs. When your company's mission statement is "we exist to give generously," you know everything that comes afterward is going to come from a pure place. We're sitting down for a founder's story about a socially good company that's turning the water bottle industry on its head, and each measure of success is getting poured back into incredible philanthropic missions. It's a thought-provoking discussion about doing business differently.

ReThink Employee Giving: A 4-Week Series. This week we're diving into building a campaign framework whose heartbeat is its people, projects and process. Don't worry. It's way more interesting than it sounds. Because when impact is the core of your plan, it's easy for everything to flow from it. We've got tips, heartfelt stories and plenty of structure to get you started on your own campaign. Thanks for joining us again for our favorite discussion topic: employee giving!🤝