Nonprofit SnapCast

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Seeking Beta Testers Aug 19, 2020

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Nonprofit Snapshot announces testing for the Nonprofit Snapshot micro-assessment app for nonprofits. You can find more information on testing and how to become a tester here: http://nonprofitsnapshot.org/blog/71-seeking-beta-testers

We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Moving Up in Your Fundraising Career, with Robin Cabral Aug 18, 2020

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Talking with Robin Cabral on the topic of Fundraising Career Advancement: How to Move Up in Your Fundraising Career By Building Your Personal Brand. Among the topics we cover:

Leveraging social media to advance in your fundraising career.
How does your fundraising resume fits into today's digital world?
Creating a digital fundraising persona that stands out.
Making LinkedIn your fundraising best friend.
Enhancing your paper resume in a digital world.
Mastering the digital fundraising career advancement world.

We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Circuit Riding with Che Casul Aug 13, 2020

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The Center for Social and Environmental Stewardship is an organization founded under the name Circuit Rider in 1976. Returning to its original name, Circuit Rider has a long and storied history in Sonoma county of being an incubator for young leaders. Many people in positions of power in the community started their career with Circuit Rider. Che talks with Nonprofit SnapCast about where the organization has been, the challenges they've faced over the years, and their plans for the near future.

We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Voter Engagement in Nonprofits, with Katharine Hill and Tanya Rhodes Smith Aug 12, 2020

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Mickey talks with Katharine Hill and Tanya Rhodes Smith about Political Social Work, and the role all nonprofits should play in encouraging their stakeholders to vote. Our conversation covers:

Nonpartisan voter engagement is legal, ethical and professional and central to building power in the communities that nonprofits work within.
Communities with high voter turnout report greater well-being, and more resources and attention from elected officials.
Presidential elections get most attention but voting in every election is critical. State and municipal elections have the lowest turnout yet the decisions are not less important. Issues like education, policing policy, housing, clean water, transportation, voting, healthcare, etc. all have state and local implications.
Structural barriers to voting- voter id laws, felon disenfranchisement laws, confusing and complicated voter registration requirements, etc- are not accidental. They are intended to limit power and access. Social workers (and people who work in nonprofits more generally) should work to overturn these laws so that voting is more accessible
Voting is an act of power yet most people don’t vote because they don’t trust the system or believe their vote doesn’t matter. Nonprofits can help change this narrative by asking people to vote and sharing why it matters. Nonvoters are more likely to be younger, less educated, less wealthy and nonwhite so their voice and power is diminished relative to voters who are more likely to be educated, white and wealthier.
Integrating voter engagement into nonprofit settings isn’t hard to do- it can be built into activities and settings that already exist.
There are great resources out there to support people who want to do this (Voting Is Social Work, Nonprofit Vote, TurboVote, Vote.org, League of Women Voters, etc).

We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Untapped Volunteer Potential Among Teens, with Alejandro Morles Aug 11, 2020

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Our guest is Alejandro Morles, Founder and President of the Warm Ears, Warm Hearts Foundation. We talk about his journey starting a nonprofit at the age of fifteen, and the importance of reaching out to young volunteers as ambassadors of the organization. We cover the following topics:

Teens are not inexperienced and are quite willing to help.
Ways to reach out and recruit teenage volunteers.
Partnering with high schools
Examining how teen volunteers are beneficial for both the organization and the teenager.
Enfranchising volunteers from the moment of recruitment.
Recruiting volunteers AS ambassadors for the organization.

We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Building A Better Mouse, with Carol Hamilton Aug 06, 2020

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With more than 20 years experience in the nonprofit sector, Carol works with organizations to help them get clarity on strategic challenges for greater mission impact. Carol keeps a list of free resources on her firm’s website: Grace Social Sector Consulting. We talk about design thinking and human centered design:

What is design thinking?
How can design thinking be of benefit to nonprofit leaders?
Examples of how design thinking can be applied and examining the results?

We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Getting Nonprofits Ready For Grants, with Patrina Pelton-Smith Aug 05, 2020

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Our second episode with Patrina Pelton-Smith, the principal consultant with The Business of Charity. This time we talk about dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s when it comes to getting nonprofits prepared to properly engage in a grant-writing agenda:

Getting procedurally clear on programs & services vs activities and events.
Receiving the grant is when the hard work actually starts.
Ensuring the organization has the right accounting infrastructure in place.
Preparing required registrations & certifications (DUNS / SAM).
Grant compliance issues.

We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

It’s Not A License To Lose Money, with David Paule Aug 04, 2020

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Our second episode with David Paule of Our Fundraising Search. David says: “There are too many nonprofits and too few ‘well run’ nonprofits. In an economy like we are facing right now, there is going to be consolidation.” We talk strategy and consolidation, among these topics:

Educating board members on nonprofit rules and fiduciary responsibility.
Founder-Syndrome is a real thing.
You have to be really well funded to sit on the sidelines.
Hope is not a strategy. A good strategic plan lets an organization play a stronger role in setting its own future as opposed to just hoping for the best.
The value of professionalizing an organization’s business operations.

We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Investments & Philanthropy Aug 01, 2020

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POSSIBILITY PROJECT: On July 20th Angela Barbash + Marc Rand talked with us about disrupting #investments and #philanthropy, check out this recording, and join us for the next Possibility Project to take part in our breakout discussions. Learn more about the next session, here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13856641/

We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

The Importance of Legacy Giving, with Lori Kranczer Jul 30, 2020

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Lori Kranczer believes firmly that planned giving, or “legacy giving,” which are ways donors make impactful gifts through endowments, bequests in wills or other structured gift vehicles, should be a vital part of the fundraising practice of every nonprofit organization, no matter the size, budget or mission. We talk about:

Why legacy giving is vital to an organization's long-term fiscal stability
How legacy can bring in dependable income, and how much is enough?
How an organization can start to create a legacy program.
The interaction between legacy giving and other fundraising efforts.

We welcome support of the Nonprofit SnapCast via Patreon. We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

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