Jon + Becky are hosting a special #AMA (Ask Me Anything) style convo on Friday's episode, and this week's topic is Staffing Up During the Great Resignation. Where to hire? Which roles to hire? And how do allow staff to be in their zone of genius - not wearing all the hats? We love adding your voice to the podcast! So drop us an email, DM or (best option🤩👉) leave us a voice memo and we'll play your question on-air🎙

Meet Sixto. He's been advocating for change at the intersection of child welfare and advanced technology since the age of 16. His lived experience in foster care fuels his passion for shifting system policy and practice through the use of technology, data & unyielding compassion. This Founder and CEO of Think of Us is directing this progressive nonprofit to end institutional placements and reform our foster care system by listening, gathering & activating.

Meet Abby. She’s a social entrepreneur and founder of Global Citizen Year, an organization reimagining the transition into adulthood by facilitating a yearlong immersion experience abroad for high school graduates. By equipping young leaders with empathy, agency & a global perspective, they’re changing the inputs into higher education in order to dramatically improve the outcomes of the world. Our minds were officially blown (in a great way!)🤯🌏👏

Join Jon and Becky and special guest, Mallory Erickson, for this special #AMA (Ask Me Anything) style convo on Friday's episode covering the much debated topic: The Nonprofit Overhead Myth. We're covering historical narratives, power dynamics, how to work with leaders who stymie innovation, how to begin socializing this convo with funders, and how to move from inspiration to action. Join our #AMA convos! Drop us an email, DM or (best option🤩👉) leave us a voice memo, and we'll play your question on-air🎙

Meet Jordana. This nonprofit marketer is helping you create a marketing plan for the "off-season" between campaigns or events AND sweetening the deal by outlining steps to craft your organization's story. Tune in for messaging guidelines and building a brand voice from one of our favorite mission-based marketers🎧

Meet Casey. You asked how to help our Ukrainian friends, so we went straight to the mothership of humanitarian relief for an epic chat with UNICEF. Casey's breaking down the org's scope, programs and how they're helping Ukrainian kids right now - and they need our help, Do Gooders🤝 She's also sharing details about the next generation of UNICEF global activists, donors and rabid fans with UNICEF NextGen, who are community volunteers raising money and moving mountains to help kids feel safe and live vibrantly.

Meet Jeannie. She left the corporate world after leading Fortune 500 retailers including Gap Inc, Michaels, Talbot's, and Signet Jewelers to create a business that was more than just fast fashion. Gifting Brands was born out of a passion for helping women, children, and families in need with an innovative solution to an ongoing problem in the fashion world — what to do with excess inventory.

Meet Mike. 🚨He's brought the truth - direct mail is not dead! We're talking through some super progressive strategies to breathe new life into your direct mail campaigns, tie them to your digital engagement strategy and explore how all of it will tee up your monthly and legacy donors too. We're reimagining direct mail with innovation and equity - tune in🎧

Meet Justine & Fiona. They're leading the charge not only at Rihanna's Foundation, Clara Lionel Foundation (named after her grandparents😭💚), but also educating the world that climate disasters do not impact all communities equally. Tune in and hear how the foundation is using local people to solve problems in the Caribbean leading to climate resiliency - all supporting Rihanna's dream that her "philanthropy will be as big as my music and my fashion."

Meet Charlie. She's on a mission to prevent a lost generation. This founder, techie, photographer, and creative dreamer followed her heart and passion until it landed in Syria, and she's never looked back. Her organization, Hello Future, is transforming the refugee youth experience from alone, stuck and forgotten to connected and empowered💪 If you have a heart for refugees or innocence caught amidst war - then this conversation will touch your heart.

Meet Chris. This CEO and son of a journeyman is taking what he learned in for-profit finance to nonprofit's most progressive microfinancing loan organization - Kiva - and the story is truly fascinating. Hear Kiva's mission story and understand this brilliant business model of this nonprofit that's powering its movement through crowdfunds loans benefitting underserved people in more than 70 countries.

Hope you're taking notes on this new Friday series Podcasting for Good. We've broken down why we think you should take the plunge, and this week we're diving into How To Build a Podcast. We’re sharing our entire playbook, frameworks, marketing plans and tools too. Join us!

We're diving into a five-week series on Podcasting for Good: Why You Should Consider Starting A Podcast (or at least be on one!). We don’t want this to be the best-kept secret anymore. We want everyone to know the power that exists in podcasting! It’s the one medium you hadn’t considered to be your most important communication channel in the digital age. We’re sharing our entire playbook, frameworks, marketing plans and tools.

Is it our birthday or something?!🥳🤩 Join this week's 8️⃣ Trends That Matter in 2022 as we dive into Corporate Partnerships 2.0 with Susan McPherson, our queen of connection, corporate social responsibility expert and our self-appointed godmother. Time to level-up and enrich our partnerships while sunsetting the ​​one-dimensional sponsorship mentality.

Meet Ari + Peter. We work so hard to document our donor data - so why aren't we better securing this most precious resource?! Our friends over at Auth0 ⭐️ are joining us to chat about building safer social impact organizations, and why they chose to rise as a leader of corporate social impact (they're funding their philanthropy through a DAF too!🤩).

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 🎉

Meet Manuela. We met this L.A. founder in our Community and in PRO, and we positively fell in love with the simple beauty in her nonprofit's mission. After rolling up her sleeves to work on the frontlines of orgs she believed in, she moved from a homeless foundation to running Prince's foundation (yes, you read that right. "That" Prince💜☔️) before starting her own foundation, "In A Perfect World" empowering young people around the world to take action and be kind. She's talking about how to co-create natural empathy in Generation Alpha and how she's seen education be the great equailizer of human vibrancy. Her life 's story is fascinating, heroic, empathetic and reveals one of those amazing founders stories where top brass is first in line and deepest in the trenches - for good. Inspiring! 💡

Meet Josh. He believes it's time for your annual report to undergo a makeover. In fact, he believes your annual report has tremendous potential to get your donor engaged and actually reading that report by leveraging digital reports, polls, videos, and the kind of attention-grabbing features you couldn’t include with your basic print version. Tune in and hear about the future of digital publications. We're also chatting about important annual report elements and the importance of digital storytelling🎧

Meet John. He's tired of seeing donor advised funds sitting around unspent. He's democratized the DAF world, and he wants you and your kids to be an active part of the giving community. You see, once he recognized a need to make giving more accessible and more effective, he launched Charitable Impact which nurtures generosity within each person and bring resources for creating change in the world to everyone. In short, it's a super cool giving platform that makes even a $5 feel like a serious investment in philanthropy. Together, we're talking basics (what the heck is a donor advised fund?) but also talking about how to make our personal philanthropy intentional rather than reactive.

Meet Sally. She began her career on the advancement team at her alma mater, Washington State University, before running one of the country's largest and most respected development recruitment firms today. Her true passion is great leadership, which drives her to get the right leader in the right seat to inspire successful teams. She's talking us through how to recruit top talent and what the Great Resignation means for those entering and leaving the nonprofit sector.🎧