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506. 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2024: Retention is an Inside Job. - Jon McCoy, Becky Endicott, Evan Wildstein and Michelle Flores Vryn
506. 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2024: Retention is an Inside Job. - Jon McCoy, Becky Endicott, Evan Wildstein and Michelle Flores Vryn

Welcome back to week three of our  9️⃣ Nonprofit Trends that Matter in 2024 Series! It’s time to name the elephant in the room: Retention. But we aren’t just talking about retaining our donors - the greatest retention issue that isn’t talked about enough is the retention of our nonprofit staff. For a sector built on relationships, we have to build a culture that creates retention from the inside out.  After all, if our staff isn’t compelled to stay, why should our donors? 🤔Joining us to delve into this critical trend are two seasoned in-house nonprofit leaders, Evan Wilstein and Michelle Flores Vryn, CFRE. Together they conducted a comprehensive survey on staff retention—exploring the reasons people leave and, conversely, what motivates them to stay. The survey results, though disheartening, shed light on the reality we face.  Join us to find out more about the reality of retention and where we go from here🧭

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Strategy, Leadership, ValuesAndie Murphybatch22, trends, culture, retention, leadershipComment
502. 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2024 - Jon McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE
502. 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2024 - Jon McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE

Join Jon and Becky as we kick off our 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2024 Series! This is where we introduce the trends we believe nonprofits should get behind in the new year and beyond. Over the next several weeks, we’re rolling out each of these trends, curating resources for each one and bringing epic guests to share their insights all to help you elevate your mission in 2024. Join us to embrace this year with bravery and boldness! 🌟

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Leadership, Strategy, Innovation, ValuesAndie Murphybatch22, leadership, culture, trends, mindsetComment
495. The 4 V’s to Create Meaningful Goals for 2024 - Jon McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE
495. The 4 V’s to Create Meaningful Goals for 2024 - Jon McCoy, CFRE and Becky Endicott, CFRE

Jon and Becky are here with an episode all about getting geared up for the year ahead. As we're on the brink of 2024, it's the perfect time to take a breather, reflect on where you're at and map out some meaningful goals. You've likely been knee-deep in year-end fundraising, plotting out your business goals, and scheming up your strategy for the new year. But, we hope you’ll take some time today to explore the 4 V’s of Meaningful Goals. We’re bringing you an actionable framework, crafted by Abby Fox,  We Are For Good's Chief of Staff, that you can put into action right away whether you’re a team of one or a large shop. Get ready for some impactful goal planning🎯

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Values, Strategy, OperationsAndie Murphystrategic planning, values, strategy, batch21Comment
463. The Founder‘s Journey: Growing + Leading An Organization You Love - Brooke Richie-Babbage
463. The Founder‘s Journey: Growing + Leading An Organization You Love - Brooke Richie-Babbage

We’re so excited to be kicking off a brand new series today: The Founder’s Series. Were talking to founders about the challenges they’ve overcome, their wins and the lessons learned along the way. Here to help us kick off this series is Brooke Richie-Babbage, one of our “phone a friend” experts to move from overwhelm to clarity. Brooke helps nonprofit founders and leaders launch, scale and lead their organizations with more clarity and confidence and without overwhelm.

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Values, LeadershipAndie Murphyleadership, values, batch20Comment
451. Real Talk: Why Nonprofits Must Dream Bigger (Replay) - Dan Pallotta
451. Real Talk: Why Nonprofits Must Dream Bigger (Replay) - Dan Pallotta

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.

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Storytelling, Community, Values, Social GoodAndie Murphystorytelling, community, Innovation, batch19Comment
447. How to Create a Compelling Donor Journey to Grow Engagement (Replay) - Cameron Bartlett
447. How to Create a Compelling Donor Journey to Grow Engagement (Replay) - Cameron Bartlett

Meet Cameron. This digital marketer and fundraiser helps hundreds of nonprofits 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 🎧

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Values, Fundraising, Marketing, Digital StrategyJulie Conferfundraising, digital strategy, marketing, cultivation, retention, batch19Comment
446. Evolved Digital Strategy Panel: How to Foster Connections and Drive Impact Using Digital Strategies - Carolina Garcia Jayaram, Eric Ressler, Nick Lynch and Sarah Adolphson
446. Evolved Digital Strategy Panel: How to Foster Connections and Drive Impact Using Digital Strategies - Carolina Garcia Jayaram, Eric Ressler, Nick Lynch and Sarah Adolphson

Join this panel of modern impact thinkers as we explore how to build evolved methods to grow the digital influence of your organization. We’re diving into marketing and branding, working with influencers, flexing content in various mediums and platforms, leveraging the power of media to build digital community, and helping nonprofits look to the horizon for evolved methods to grow their digital influence. This is the panel you’ve been waiting for to get your mission’s story out in the wild.

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Values, Fundraising, Marketing, Digital StrategyJulie Conferdigital strategy, marketing, batch19Comment
443. Best of Season 7: 5 Takeaways We Don't Want You to Miss - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and Julie Confer
443. Best of Season 7: 5 Takeaways We Don't Want You to Miss - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and Julie Confer

It’s the Season 7️⃣ Finale 🎉 Tune in to hear the biggest takeaways we've gleaned from the 74 episodes we’ve aired during the season. We’re sharing our favorite episodes, mic drop and some big updates for this summer on the pod. Join Jon, Becky and Julie for a sneak peek behind the We Are For Good studio curtain👀

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Community, Strategy, ValuesAndie Murphypodcasting, self reflection, values, batch18Comment
436. Building Sustainable Movements for Systems Change - Deepa Iyer
436. Building Sustainable Movements for Systems Change - Deepa Iyer

Meet Deepa. She's played many roles in supporting social movements, weaver, frontline responder, storyteller + guide. Her political and community homes include Asian American, South Asian, Muslim, and Arab ecosystems where she spent fifteen years in policy advocacy and coalition building in the wake of the September 11 attacks and the ensuing backlash. She now leads projects on solidarity and social movements at the Building Movement Project, a national nonprofit organization catalyzing social change through research, relationships, and resources. Don’t miss this conversation that’ll provide the building blocks for building sustainable movements💪

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Community, Values, StrategyAndie Murphysocial change, community, advocacy, batch18Comment
423. Making Ethical Impact the Norm -Dr. Jenny Nuccio
423. Making Ethical Impact the Norm -Dr. Jenny Nuccio

Meet Jenny. She lives her values out loud as an entrepreneur who’s passionate about making a positive impact in the world🌍 Jenny is the Founder and CEO of Imani Collective, a global social enterprise and woman-empowerment program focused on defeating generational poverty through education and employment opportunities in Kenya. Her new book “Let It Be Wild” (which comes out later this month!), explores the journey of stepping into the unknown and finding a home. Tune in to hear how each of us can find our own Let It Be Wild Story no matter what season of life we’re in📍

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Ethics, Values, Social Good, Mission StoryAndie Murphybatch17, ethics, entrepreneurship, social impactComment
420. Developing the Right Mindset to Unlock Innovation and Creativity - Virginia Almendarez
420. Developing the Right Mindset to Unlock Innovation and Creativity - Virginia Almendarez

Meet Virgina. We feel like we are getting a treat today as we spend time with one of our favorite leadership coaches of all time. She’s in her 20th year in the nonprofit sector and has worked with incredible organizations like The Apollo Theater, the Puerto Rican Conservation Trust, New York University, and the City University of New York. Her love of coaching and empowering others is expansive and she’s the founder of Founder of Fund Strategy, a fundraising strategy and coaching consultancy. She’s bringing his expertise on how to stop shrinking ourselves and our capacity. Tune in to get into the right mindset to unlock innovation and creativity 🧠

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Philanthropy, Strategy, Values, InnovationAndie Murphybatch17, fundraising, Innovation, mindsetComment
416. The Funder’s Mindset: Building Authentic Relationships + Investing in Wellness - Liz Aybar Conti
416. The Funder’s Mindset: Building Authentic Relationships + Investing in Wellness - Liz Aybar Conti

It’s time to reimagine the funder/nonprofit relationship. We’re putting a flag in the ground to talk about how to evolve relationships and processes and make the grantee/funder relationship as symbiotic, empowering (and simple!) for all. This third conversation is examining authentic relationships and the role funders play in supporting wellness. Today’s guest Liz Aybar Conti is the CEO of Margulf Foundation and gets the most joy and energy from engaging with grantees and learning more about the communities they serve.

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Partner Management, Stewardship, Fundraising, Values, Mental HealthAndie Murphypartnership management, partner management, fundraising, batch17, mental healthComment
415. From $275k to $51M: How to Become a High Growth Nonprofit - Matt Scott
415. From $275k to $51M: How to Become a High Growth Nonprofit - Matt Scott

Meet Matt. This fundraiser, author and CEO, once helped take an org from $275,000 raised to $51 million in seven years🤯 He’s now the CEO and Co-Founder of CauseMic, a consultancy that helps nonprofits grow their organizations using the best for-profit methods. In his new 🆓book, The High-Growth Nonprofit, he shares the lessons learned from more than a decade spent helping nonprofit leaders fully fund their missions, including numerous stints inside the walls of high-growth nonprofits. He’s diving into the insights he covers in the book with the We Are For Good Community. Tune in and grab your notepad because this is an episode to apply to your org today📝

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Values, Strategy, FundraisingAndie Murphybatch17, culture, fundraising, growth mindsetComment
400. Celebrating 400 Episodes of the We Are For Good Podcast 🥳 - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and Dana Snyder
400. Celebrating 400 Episodes of the We Are For Good Podcast 🥳 - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and Dana Snyder

We’re flipping the script on the 400th episode🥳 Our dear friend Dana Snyder is interviewing Jon and Becky about all things We Are For Good Podcast. We’re diving into the starting point of the pod, PRO, the community and so much more. Join us for a peak behind the curtain at what we’ve learned and what we're forecasting for the next 400 episodes. 

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Community, ValuesAndie Murphycommunity, values, batch17Comment
386. 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2023: Community is Core - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and Floyd Jones
386. 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2023: Community is Core - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and Floyd Jones

Welcome back to our Friday Series, 9️⃣ Trends that Matter in 2023. Today we’re exploring Trend #5: Community is Core. It’s no secret that we believe community everything, and we want to empower you to co-build a community around your missions. The philosophy of community building is no longer “build it and they will come.” True community is building WITH people. Plus, this conversation means we get to hang out with one of the best community builders we know, Floyd Jones, Director of Community and Partnerships at Givebutter. Join us as we chat about building, engaging and  activating those nearest and dearest to build movements that have the power to change the world🌎

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Community, ValuesAndie Murphybatch16, community, thought leadershipComment
385. Centering People-Driven Analytics + Data Equity - Meena Das
385. Centering People-Driven Analytics + Data Equity - Meena Das

Meet Meena. She’s a community data strategist who helps nonprofits and social impact agencies advance human-centered data insights - focusing on equitable research tools and analyzing engagement. She helps nonprofits and social impact agencies with mindful research practices for a social justice-centered community. Plus, she’s just an incredible human who volunteers as advisor to 10+ amazing small-shops across North America, mentors immigrant women in technology and data science-related careers and is creating an online school called Data Is For Everyone! Don’t miss this conversation that will help us humanize data and put these principles into action

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Operations, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion, ValuesAndie Murphybatch16, ethics, data, DEIComment
383. 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2023: Marketing is Mission - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and Eric Ressler
383. 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2023: Marketing is Mission - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and Eric Ressler

Welcome back to our Friday Series,  Trends that Matter in 2023 Today we’re breaking down Trend #4: Marketing is Mission. Marketing is no longer a facet of your mission, it IS your mission manifested. Eric Ressler, Founder and Creative Director at Cosmic, is joining us for the conversation to break down why communication, design and marketing are keys to organizational success. Join us as we explore how the way you attract, market and find your believers is mission work.

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Values, Communications, MarketingAndie Murphybatch16, marketing, community, thought leadershipComment
380. 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2023: Giving is Identity - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and T. Clay Buck, CFRE
380. 9 Nonprofit Trends That Matter in 2023: Giving is Identity - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and T. Clay Buck, CFRE

Welcome back to our Friday Series,  9️⃣ Trends that Matter in 2023🥳 This week, we’re exploring Trend #3: Giving is Identity. We believe everyone can be a philanthropist. Giving is part of what makes us who we are and when nonprofits can find value-aligned supporters and activate them something magical happens. Here to dive into this further with us is Clay Buck. Tune in for a conversation about the opportunities that exist when we invite people at all giving levels in a way that is open and inclusive. 

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Values, PhilanthropyAndie Murphyculture, trends, thought leadership, batch16, givingComment