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🎯

Values, Strategy, OperationsAndie MurphyDecember 11, 2023strategic planning, values, strategy, batch21Comment

493. Strategic Planning + Innovation in Uncertain Times - Joan Garry

Meet Joan. She’s a powerhouse in the nonprofit sector, Principal of Joan Garry Consulting and founder of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab. With a blog reaching 150,000 leaders monthly and a podcast, Nonprofits Are Messy, with over 2 million listens from 207 countries 🌎, Joan is a sought-after executive coach and strategic advisor for major organizations. Her remarkable journey includes turning around GLAAD during a deep financial crisis (with just $360 in the bank 😬), leading it to prominence and impact. In this episode, we explore the necessity of injecting innovation into nonprofits and the hallmarks of an innovative, modern nonprofit professional. Join us as we uncover the secret sauce to nonprofit success, featuring Joan’s stories that had us literally laughing out loud 🤣

Strategy, Innovation, LeadershipAndie MurphyDecember 3, 2023strategy, strategic planning, Innovation, leadership, batch21Comment

471. Launching a Nonprofit + Foundational Strategies for Lasting Change - Tiffany Allen

Meet Tiffany. She’s the CEO and Founder of Boss on a Budget, where she’s built an online community of over 15,000 people who use her products and teaching to launch their nonprofit dreams. Her mission is to bring more visibility to black-owned, small, and new nonprofits by helping them own their power, and harness their personal and professional expertise to create organizations that will change their communities and eventually, the world🌎 Tiffany's passion for this sector is infectious as she urges founders to recognize their unique value, believe in their power, and leverage their lived experiences. Don’t miss this episode if you’re looking to start a nonprofit that meets the needs of your community💙

Philanthropy, Community, Management, LeadershipAndie MurphyOctober 4, 2023batch20, philanthropy, strategy, community, leadershipComment

412. How Cornell Reimagined Donor Engagement at Massive Scale - Ashley Budd

Meet Ashley. Ya’ll. We gotta talk about the jaw-dropping + disruptive + groundbreaking way Cornell reimagined its team structure to unleash radical engagement. Reorganizing teams can be anxiety-inducing, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, but Cornell’s restructure led to a paradigm-shifting ripple in engagement - like moving from raising $600M to nearly $1B in less than three years🤯 This is a brilliant case study in how to radically unlock the potential of the bottom of your donor pyramid to yield big gains not just financially, but in engagement, story, awareness, event attendance, and loyalty🤝

Marketing, Digital Strategy, Donor RelationsAndie MurphyApril 19, 2023marketing, digital strategy, strategy, donor relations, batch17Comment

408. How to Find + Track KPIs for Your Org That Really Matter - Brett Kopf

Meet Brett. As a founder, he’s passionate about improving education and goes deep to understand problems and create solutions. With his brother David, he founded Remind.com which is now used by 30 million active users who send billions of messages to families with the goal of giving students an opportunity to succeed😍 Together, they also founded Omella in 2019 after seeing the difficulty educators have collecting money. He’s, in his own words, obsessed with helping customers. Tune in for Brett’s formula for building a company (or organization!)🙌

Marketing, Strategy, InnovationAndie MurphyApril 10, 2023Innovation, strategy, entrepreneurship, batch17Comment

364. Habits of an Impactful + Innovative Nonprofit - Jon McCoy, CFRE, Becky Endicott, CFRE and Meghan Cressman

Welcome back to our Habits of an Impactful Nonprofit Friday series. We’re ending this series by looking at the entire nonprofit shop with Meghan Cressman, Senior Director of Development at New Story. We're bringing tips, case studies and the Do's/Dont's for a modern, innovative nonprofit. Tune in as we round out this Friday series with the belief that powerful impact-driven philanthropy transforms organizations, lifts up communities and changes lives🙌

Habits Series, Innovation, StrategyAndie MurphyDecember 16, 2022Innovation, strategy, culture, mindset, batch15Comment

338. The Art of Perception in Fundraising - Amy Herman

Fundraising, Innovation, StrategyAndie MurphyOctober 17, 2022batch14, fundraising, Innovation, strategyComment

329. Habits of an Impactful Executive Director - Brooke Richie-Babbage

Habits Series, Strategy, LeadershipAndie MurphySeptember 30, 2022strategy, leadership, mindset, batch14Comment

326. The Habits of an Impactful Major Gifts Officer - Julie Ordoñez

Habits Series, StrategyAndie MurphySeptember 23, 2022strategy, batch14Comment

323. Habits of an Impactful Board Member - Sabrina Walker Hernandez

Welcome back to our new Friday Series called The Habits of an Impactful Fundraiser. We're kicking off the discussion by bringing in one of our experts, Sabrina Walker Hernandez with Supporting World Hope who's talking about Habits of an Impactful Board Member. We're bringing tips and examples of who's doing it well. And we have a big launch announcement next week that we'll tease on this episode too✌️

Habits Series, Board Managament, StrategyAndie MurphySeptember 16, 2022board managament, boards, strategy, batch14Comment

309. Driving Innovation in the Nonprofit Sector + What's Next for Capital Campaigns - Sterrin Bird

Meet Sterrin. This fundraising expert spent three decades in campaigns and major gifts conducting more than three-dozen capital campaigns with combined goals in excess of $5.5 billion. Bottom line - she knows her stuff 🤩 This tech-for-good guru is walking us through innovation in the modern-day campaign and how to update outdated practices. And her personal story of how philanthropy intersected with her life will have you reaching for the Kleenex.

Campaigns, Fundraising, InnovationAndie MurphyAugust 11, 2022batch13, Innovation, campaign management, strategy, major giftsComment

226. Embracing New, Creative + Better Ways of Thinking, Planning + Working - Veronica LaFemina

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🧐

StrategyJulie ConferFebruary 2, 2022batch10, strategyComment

213. Making Tech Accessible for Every Nonprofit - Tina Roh and Mark Ulrich

Meet Tina and Mark. These two Stanford classmates helped build Snap and Pinterest, then left the for-profit tech world behind to launch a groundbreaking social giving platform, Every.org - it's a nonprofit making giving accessible for all nonprofits 🎉

Fundraising, Social Good, InnovationJulie ConferJanuary 3, 2022strategy, branding, community, batch10Comment

208. A Pep Talk for 2022: Trends + Advice for Every Nonprofit in the New Year - Katie Appold

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🎧

Strategy, Professional DevelopmentJulie ConferDecember 15, 2021batch9, strategy, branding, professional developmentComment

204. Strategic Planning 101 + How to Help Your Board Become Better Fundraisers - Sabrina Walker Hernandez

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.

Management, Board Managament, Strategy, LeadershipJulie ConferDecember 6, 2021batch9, strategic planning, strategy, leadership, visionComment

76. Crash Course on Building a Strategic Development Plan + Raising $100M+! - Bill Littlejohn, CFRE

Meet Bill. The self-professed evangelist for strategic philanthropy just may be the godfather of healthcare philanthropy. With more than 30 years under his belt in the development sector, this CEO of San Diego's Sharp HealthCare Foundation wants us to stop talking about being costly and start talking about being profitable. We're talking about the intentionality behind syncing development and strategic plans and celebrating frontline healthcare heroes.

Healthcare Philanthropy, StrategyJulie ConferFebruary 10, 2021batch4, strategy, healthcare philanthropy, development plansComment