Clergy Panel on The Future of the Church with Bishop Carlton Pearson Bishop Ebony Kirkland Bishop S Y Younger Rev. Jim Chandler Rev. Rich Bontrager For more sessions, go to http://iRecharge.live to register to see all sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Maximizing the Impact of Your Nonprofit’s Digital Marketing Efforts David Pisarek has been smashing the nonprofit sector for 30 years, and now he's living out his dream: to design and build websites, lead design, and branding projects, and be a general technology guru for non-profits in Canada. He’s a design and programming expert who has taught at the college level and found his passion for sharing knowledge at his clients' businesses. Over the past five years, he and his team have completed 22...
Will College Ever Be Free??? Interview with Chris Bryant Christopher Bryant is the Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg, Virginia. He oversees all fundraising and philanthropy, marketing, public relations, and scholarship management. Also, in this role, Chris is the Executive Director of the CVCC Education Foundation. Mr. Bryant began his career as a District Executive for the Blue Ridge Mountains Council in 1999. After working ten years ...
Clergy and Faith Leader Empowerment Series: Panel 1 Wisdom from Rabbi Wayne Dosick, Dr. Mike Ghouse, and Rev. Kathleen Panning Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Networks for Social Impact About How Organization Can Work Together to Move the Needle on Social Issues With Michelle Shumate When governments, nonprofits, and businesses come together as a “network” to address the most pressing social issues of the day, they can more easily overcome challenges related to social issue analysis, network governance, securing and managing funding, dealing with power and conflict, managing change, and utilizing data. In Networks for Social Impact, Dr. Shumate and Dr...
Madison Avenue, Wally’s Gas Station, and a Box of Cereal with Rabbi Wayne Dosick, Ph. D., D. D. Transforming our world through Radical Loving and Awesome HolinessRABBI DR. WAYNE DOSICK, Ph.D., D.D. is the founder and spiritual guide of The Elijah Minyan — bringing Spiritual Judaism and Jewish Renewal to San Diego. Rabbi Dosick is a dynamic, inspiring, and loving educator, writer, spiritual guide and healer, who teaches and counsels about faith and spirit, ethical values, life tansformations, and...
What Can LinkedIn Do for Nonprofits? Interview with LinkedIn Specialist, Carol Kaemmerer LinkedIn is THE place where business professionals such as your prospective Board members, volunteers, and donors can be found -- so it behooves every nonprofit leader to have a solid presence there as well. Having a company page for the nonprofit is important too, because it gives your nonprofit added credibility and helps staff, Board members, and volunteers proudly list their affiliation with the organiza...
Making Grant Management Practical with Grant and Contract Management Expert Ansley Fender Grant management costs an average of 20% of grant funding, which means that a pretty significant amount of funding is going to overhead rather than programs and services. A lot of nonprofits end up having to hire more people just to manage their grants, which further cuts into the funding. This is crazy considering how much of a public good nonprofits provide to society. COVID, for example, highlighted the ...
Getting the Most Out of Your People: Management Lessons from Building a Nonprofit Startup Interview with Diana Zhang What Diana says about this interview: "I'd love to share the management lessons I've learned so far from building our nonprofit startup, NeighborShare, from scratch over the past year. Coming from 15 years' worth of training as a "for-profit" executive, I've found that those skills were directly applicable to the "for purpose" space I am now in, with some twists. For example, how ...
Clergy Leadership Challenges with Hugh Ballou In this short "T-Talk" (Transformation Talk) in the faith leader empowerment series, Hugh Ballou addresses the 5 top leadership challenges for clergy and all faith leaders: Self-Management Conflict Management Clarity of Vision Over Functioning Emotional Control Hugh Ballou works with visionary leaders and their teams to develop a purpose-driven high-performance culture that significantly increases productivity, profits, and job satisfaction. through ...
Don't Let Your Emotions Hijack your Success: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Leadership is more than just organizational, technical and tactical skills; it involves relational skills. Emotional intelligence allows all types of leaders to navigate the relational, behavioral, and cultural aspects of leading an organization. In order to succeed, one must master the skills of managing his/her own emotions and navigating the emotions of others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...
Changemaking Through Philanthropy: Leveraging Philanthropy As A Force For Social Change Interview with Jay and Shira RudermanAs opposed to simply funding grantees’ initiatives, a proactive foundation takes its ideas to the community that it is trying to change for the better. Then, success has been achieved when that entire community’s values have changed. Foundations and philanthropists do not need to be afraid of making bold public statements or even of instigating controversy. Foundations and...
The Clergy Leadership Intensive Webinar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Shortcut to Leadership Excellence Interview with Scott Drake Scott Drake is the Founder and Executive Director at JumpCoach, a social enterprise on a mission to make best-in-class leadership training available to everyone who needs it. Scott’s journey into leadership was long, painful, and he made every mistake in the book. It took him 10 years to thrive as a leader and not feel like an imposter. When he became a leader of leaders, he saw next-generation leaders making the same mistakes and ...
Leading From The Jumpseat: How to Create Extraordinary Opportunities by Handing Over Control Interview with Peter Docker When something really matters to us, it releases an energy that has us run towards any challenge. And yet, in business and in life, regardless of how committed we are to a cause, handing over the reins to others is inevitable. Everyone will eventually leave their team, retire from being the CEO, or see their kids leave home and lead their own lives. Leading from the Jumpseat e...
Competition To Drive Results Interview with Jaison Morgan Carrot is the market leader in the development and management of large-scale and highly technical grantmaking and procurement protocols. As a service business, Carrot works closely with philanthropic, government, and corporate entities to help them improve their search for new talent and technical solutions to some of the leading challenges around the world. Therefore, Carrot offers a unique perspective on what those grantmakers and spons...
Building Sustained Giving, Continuous Growth, and an Engaged, Loyal Donor Base: Don’t Make It About Money There are hundreds of millions of dollars in philanthropic funds which lie on the sidelines each year. This is over and above all the millions currently in donor-advised holdings. Accessing these funds is possible for any worthy charitable organization. To do so, nonprofit leaders must first adopt the right mindset, as being truly successful in fundraising is 90% thinking and only 10% doing....
Installing Business Systems Into Your Nonprofit Organization Tim Nichols Author. Speaker. Business Development Strategist. In 2012, Tim Nichols left the big-name banks and brokerage firms to open an independent financial practice in a town where he knew no one. Beginning with $0 in Assets Under Management, he had grown his practice to $3,000,000.00 in Assets Under Management within his first 12 months. By metrics used in the financial industry, he had grown his practice by 3,000,000% with no pri...
Media Power for Nonprofit Organizations: Connecting to Supporters in a Very Influential, Impactful, and Inspirational Way Scott Murray, the co-founder of Murray Media, has served as the Chairman/CEO since its inception. For three decades, he was the Sports Director/Anchor on the local NBC nightly news in both Dallas/Fort Worth and Washington, DC. In addition, he served as a television host of countless TV specials, radio host of several programs, master of ceremonies at thousands of live events ...
Situational Awareness and Leadership The world is not a safe place today. The threats we face are growing. These threats include Sexual Harassment, Suicide, Human Trafficking, Cyber, Assault, Bullying, and Active Shooter. But this isn’t the entire list. In addition, all of these problems have been getting worse, not better. “Traditional Training” following Einstein’s definition of Insanity is not working. When you and your organization learn Situational Awareness, you provide your teams with the...
Importance of Digital Marketing for Your Nonprofit: Interview with Digital Expert Mark Stebbins How can nonprofit organizations drive traffic to their website and convert visitors into supporters including volunteers and donors? In 2003,Mark Stebbinsstarted Stebbins Media, with one simple goal in mind – help businesses with exceptional marketing. He has always believed that marketing should be an investment and not an expense. When done right, it’s a beautiful thing when the combination of strat...
Little Things Everyone Can Do To Make A Big Impact In The World: Interview with Amy & Scott Malin One of the main reasons donors lapse is poor communication from the non-profit and a lack of meaningful ways to engage donors and get them excited about their mission. Most people experience donor burn-out from being bombarded with messages about the world’s biggest problems that need fixing. As a society, we’ve become desensitized when we see suffering around us. That is why we’re big believers in ...
Leader Effectiveness: Closing The Confidence Gap Interview with Robbie Walls Today, there is a particular crisis for women—a vast confidence gap that separates the sexes. Compared with men, women don’t consider themselves as ready for promotions, they predict they’ll do worse on tests, and they generally underestimate their abilities across the board. A growing body of evidence shows just how devastating this lack of confidence can be. In fact, it turns out that confidence predicts success much ...
Discovering the Value of Including Persons with Disabilities with Your Overall Inclusion Efforts Interview with Daniel Hodges Creating access is usually a much simpler process than we imaging subtle changes make a world of difference. Access and inclusion are catalysts for innovation that benefit everyone. No viewing people with disabilities as people to serve, but also including them in nonprofit leadership. Questions to be addressed in this interview: What is a disability and how many people h...
A Cautionary Tale – Corporate Lessons applied to Entrepreneurship: How to Identify and Avoid Future Disasters Interview with Dan Goodwin Have you ever had a time when there was a nagging doubt about a certain person or situation? Ever wonder how confidential information is being handled and protected within your organization? Do you know if your employees/volunteers understand the parameters of your mission, passion, and vision? These three items: people, processes, and communication all directl...
7 Questions That Unlock How Your Organization Can Attract New Donors Interview with Marketing Specialist, Chris Barlow Chris Barlow grew up imagining he'd work in a cause-focused career, ministry, or mission. To his surprise, after just "getting a job" after college, he discovered he loved business. After many years in corporate sales, he realized that while he loved it, it wasn't going to be what he could or wanted to do until retirement. So he founded Beeline in 2015 and volunteered with a loc...
Traits of The Gracious Leader: The Power Five®️ Interview with Gracious Coach Doris Young Boyer Doris Young Boyer is a sought-after keynote speaker, leadership advisor, and podcast host. She has insight, expertise, and experience about the behaviors that create a powerful presence, that create and sustain relationships, and produce bottom-line results. Doris has more than 25 years of domestic and international business experience. With more than 25 years of domestic and international corporate a...
Bio Writing and Visibility As a Leader: How to talk about yourself without sounding arrogant with Writing Coach June Morrow It’s not arrogant to talk (or write) about yourself in a way that shows the value you bring to the world. June Morrow helps service-based entrepreneurs, leaders, and others find the words that describe their worth with bio writing, website writing, elevator pitches, and custom content marketing strategies. A former journalist and award-winning public speaker, she’s had her ...
Engaging Members and Supporters Through Live or Virtual Entertainment Events Interview with Joe M. Turner Before the pandemic, it was already the case that organizations needed creative new ways to engage with their audiences of supporters and donors. While the pandemic required us to add new tools and approaches to the mix, the need to engage and communicate changed in that it became more important, but in some ways more difficult. During his career in the management consulting industry, Joe M....
Effective Decision Making: Thinking Critically (and Rationally) • Cultivating Next Generation Leader Interview with Sam Palazzolo As a Venture Capitalist, I’ve encountered thousands of leaders that continue to do the wrong thing, when right is available to them. Why? They make these wrong decisions because of typically two reasons: (1) They don’t have all the information necessary to make the right decision – Either they don’t have, don’t get, or don’t know where to find, (2) They don’t ask ques...
