Nonprofit SnapCast

Latest Episodes:

Racial Unrest and Your Nonprofit's Message, with Robert Drake Jun 02, 2020

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Nonprofit SnapCast talks with Robert Drake to discuss whether or not nonprofits should be making any open declarations about the current civil unrest, and if so, how.

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Digital Duct-Tape, Virtual Meetings, and Boardable, Jeb Banner Jun 01, 2020

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Jeb Banner speaks with the SnapCast about Boardable, which is fully integrated board management software platform specifically for nonprofit boards (and not just another board portal). We talk about:

How attention and awareness impacts virtual board meetings.
The issues of board member engagement.
The building of a virtual boardroom.
Eliminating of the “digital duct-tape” that many organizations must use to manually integrate their virtual meetings.
How to ensure all board members get heard in the virtual environment.
And Jeb introduces Mickey to the term “uncanny valley.”

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Integrating VR to Monetize the Fundraising Experince, Robert Brodney May 27, 2020

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Talking with Robert Brodney, CEO & Founder at Launchpadds about his experiences using Virtual Reality to streamline aspects of a nonprofit's fundraising efforts. This fascinating discussion touches on new ways nonprofits may use this technology for their own purposes.

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

GlobalGiving During Pandemic with Michael Gale May 26, 2020

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We talk more about COVID-related challenges that all nonprofits may face: “Nonprofits are at the fore-front of community responses throughout the world. Many are also suffering financially because of limited resources and increased need. AND the individuals working in nonprofits are facing many of the same challenges as the rest of us: reduced income, childcare challenges, strain on mental health. Needs have never been greater and the work has never been more challenging on a personal and professional level.” We also touch on:

Changes and innovations GlobalGiving is implementing to lighten the load for their partners.
Lessons nonprofits may learn from pandemic, including the presence of a silver lining.
Challenging assumptions on what it means to be a responsive and supportive funder.
How to start setting strategic priorities for 2021 while in the midst of such uncertainty.

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Data Management In The Age of Pandemic, Jonathan Goldberg May 25, 2020

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Talking again with Jonathan Goldberg of Megaphone Technology Consulting. A look at how Jonathan’s clients are changing some of their clerical and data-keeping duties during the age of COVID-19. How have the actual physical practices of collecting and depositing checks changed? Jonathan shares a case study to illustrate how one of his clients successfully (and quickly) organized themselves to implement a database solution and how doing so benefitted their operations. What should organizations be doing with their data during times of pandemic?

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Data Management Practices and Implementation, Jonathan Goldberg May 20, 2020

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Talking with Jonathan Goldberg of Megaphone Technology Consulting on database needs, and data needs for nonprofits. We cover:

What nonprofits need to do to graduate from a spreadsheet to something more sophisticated?
What are the biggest factors that spell success vs. failure with the move to a better data management solution?
Contrasting how data management goes wrong with what it looks like when it goes well.
What data should nonprofits store, and how should they use it?

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

What Really Matters? The Nature Conservancy in Georgia, Deron Davis May 19, 2020

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Today we visit with Deron Davis, Executive Director of The Nature Conservancy in Georgia. We talk about changes to their operations, fundraising strategies, and what it means to be looking at a public that seems to be realizing just what it is they they value most as a result of pandemic. Topics include:

A look at TNC’s current initiatives.
Managing leadership at the local level as part of a global entity.
COVID-19's impact on TNC’s current conservation work and a look at what may change moving forward.
How TNC pivoted its fundraising and donor outreach as events and in-person meetings are discouraged.

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

Mobile App Development for Nonprofits, Jared Sheehan, Part 2 May 18, 2020

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Our second conversation with Jared Sheehan, Chief Executive Officer at PwrdBy. We talk about the benefits and pitfalls of mobile app development. And we tackle the following questions for nonprofits:

Do all nonprofits need an app? What will they do with it and how?
What’s your use-case? Do you have a great audience?
Does anything similar already exist?
Do you have the right team and is “mobile” a core-competency of your team?

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.

You're Using AI Already, Jared Sheehan, Part 1 May 13, 2020

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Talking with Jared Sheehan, Chief Executive Officer at PwrdBy, about the state of Artificial Intelligence and better use of data for nonprofits. In this conversation, Jared makes data science relevant for nonprofits of any size, and we touch on issues of ethics in data mining and artificial intelligence. You are already using AI and you may not be aware of it.

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Grant Writing Is Part of Program Management, Leonore Okwara May 11, 2020

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SnapCast got to visit with Leonore Okwara, Community-Based Participatory Research Program Management Expert. We talk about her history with the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs creating the PMRG (Program Manager’s Resource Group) which unified all researchers and program managers together to talk about problems & procedures with implementing programs, and developing standardized procedures for program implementation throughout the department.

Our conversation also covers:

How program planning impacts the management of a grant.
Program Management and Grants Management should be integrated.
Tips for nailing down the science of designing a program and the grant effort to fund it.
The top three program management issues that nonprofits tend to encounter.
Program management systems (online tools), which must be adopted by all internal stakeholders.
Getting buy-in from all internal stakeholders
More advice for nonprofits as they pursue their program/grants agenda.

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website.