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Lisa Rupple: Crisis Communications For Nonprofits May 06, 2020

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Speaking with Lisa Rupple, Content Strategist & Content Writer, on the issue of nonprofit crisis communications and some best-practices that ALL nonprofits should keep in mind when developing their Crisis Communications Plans. We talk about:

Who are the stakeholders should be involved in developing the Crisis Communications Plan?
Who should have a role in delivering crisis communications?
What form should crisis communications take?
Keeping your messaging simple, relevant, and personal for your stakeholder audiences.
What’s in your Crisis Communications Kit? How is it accessed and who gets to access it?
The benefits of having an organized plan and a centralized communications kit.
Use audience feedback to improve your communications.

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

Honoring A Guest At Your Events, with Trace Kingham May 04, 2020

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Visiting with Trace Kingham (in early March of 2020), we have another great conversation. This time we discuss the honoring of a special guest at our nonprofit events, whether or not it's a good idea, and how to judiciously do it. Strategically done, honoring a special guest can be a useful tool towards increasing revenue and awareness. Trace also answers these questions:

How much time should an org spend "prosyletizing" at their own events?
Should an org pay an appearance fee to their special guest for being the honoree?

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website or the Wellspring Nonprofit Resource website. The Nonprofit SnapCast records at Strongbox West, in Atlanta.

Deeper Dig On Planning and Execution, Tom Brush, Part 2 Apr 30, 2020

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This session was recorded before the current pandemic, but these issues remain critical for nonprofits today. Part 2 of our conversation with Tom Brush, CEO of Advancement Designs. This time we get into the idea of planning and execution, and how to get past the notion that a plan is a document that sits on the shelf for eleven months at a time. We discuss:

Understanding and knowing what your mission is – one assumes this is a given, but sadly, not for many nonprofits.
Reviewing a nonprofit’s current scope of activities, and determining how to measure those efforts.
Making sure those efforts are measured against definable, quantifiable SMART goals.
Fundraising feasibility studies, are they relevant?

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website or the Wellspring Nonprofit Resource website. The Nonprofit SnapCast records at Strongbox West, in Atlanta.

Global Giving During Pandemic, Sandrina da Cruz Apr 29, 2020

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A quick visit with Sandrina da Cruz, we talk about the scope of her activities as the Senior Humanitarian Response Specialist at GlobalGiving. Our conversation touches on Global Giving's activities and their efforts with the Coronavirus Relief Fund, and how Global Giving works with and communicates with their partners across the globe. You can learn more about the Coronavirus Relief Fund here: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/coronavirus-relief-fund/

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

More Than Fundraising, Tom Brush, Part 1 Apr 28, 2020

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This session was recorded before the current pandemic, but focusing on the donor is still critical today. We talk with Tom Brush, CEO of Advancement Designs, about how to help nonprofits become stronger in achieving new levels of support. Tom looks at the cyclical elements that move within a fundraising engine, helping nonprofits better understand their donors, and crafting the right message to reach the right donor at the right time.

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website or the Wellspring Nonprofit Resource website. The Nonprofit SnapCast records at Strongbox West, in Atlanta.

Major Gifts for Small Nonprofits, Sherry Quam Taylor Apr 27, 2020

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Sherry Quam Taylor is back for another episode. This time we talk about what it means to be a small nonprofit shop that is looking to improve its major gifts agenda. We talk about where to start, and where emerging nonprofit leaders might prioritize their fundraising energies and time.

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website or the Wellspring Nonprofit Resource website. The Nonprofit SnapCast records at Strongbox West, in Atlanta.

Budgeting During Pandemic, Sarah Olivieri, Part 3 Apr 24, 2020

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The last of three conversations we had with Sarah Olivieri, Founder of PivotGround. This time we talk about budgeting--specifically about budgeting changes an organization may need to make as a result of pandemic. We discuss:

The budget tells a story. It tells you what's going on and what the financial plan is.
Boosting the money generating activities. Do not cut money generating activities.
Examining the fraction of the overall budget that should be targeted for money generating activities.
If organizational failure seems imminent, what can that org do?
Sarah offers a budgeting template on her Pivot Ground website: https://www.pivotground.com/budget-template

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website or the Wellspring Nonprofit Resource website. The Nonprofit SnapCast records at Strongbox West, in Atlanta.

Before You Can Take Care Of Others..., Sarah Olivieri, Part 2 Apr 23, 2020

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SPECIAL EPISODE: The second of three conversations we had with Sarah Olivieri, Founder of PivotGround. This time we get to speak about fundraising during times of pandemic, discussing issues related to leadership, dispelling myths and rumors for your team, and using available tools to rally one's team. Sarah says this is a great time to fundraise, and a great time to lay the ground-work for fundraising asks, positioning one's org as the source of information that constituents can trust. This and more (which is why there's a Part Three...)

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website or the Wellspring Nonprofit Resource website. The Nonprofit SnapCast records at Strongbox West, in Atlanta.

Mindful Leadership - One Step At A Time, Dr. Theresa Ricke-Kiely, Part 2 Apr 22, 2020

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Mindful Leadership. Concluding our talk about leadership, this time we discuss mindfulness as a practice to improve the quality and efficacy of leadership across the sector. Mickey learns adults are generally only mindfully present about 50% of the time. Also, multitasking is bad, okay?

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website or the Wellspring Nonprofit Resource website. The Nonprofit SnapCast records at Strongbox West, in Atlanta.

What Kind Of Boat Are You Driving? Sarah Olivieri, Part 1 Apr 21, 2020

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This is the first of three conversations we had with Sarah Olivieri, Founder of PivotGround, author of The Impact Method. The Impact Method hinges on three guiding principles:

Having a process for improvement.
Having plan in place for implementation, instead of a stand-alone strategic plan.
Building the right leadership / organizational structure.

We discuss the notion that the vast majority of nonprofits don't actually have money problems--that they really have people problems, not knowing how to organize and leverage their people.

We welcome your questions and feedback via The Nonprofit Snapshot website or the Wellspring Nonprofit Resource website. The Nonprofit SnapCast records at Strongbox West, in Atlanta.

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